[AISWorld] SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2014: Call for Nominations

[Andre van Hoorn]

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                         CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

              SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2014
      http://research.spec.org/awards/call-for-nominations.html


             Submission deadline: September 30, 2014

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SPEC DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION AWARD

The SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding
doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking,
performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general.
Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific
originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and
quality of the presentation.

The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the ICPE 2015
International Conference on Performance Engineering held in Austin,
TX, USA (http://icpe2015.ipd.kit.edu).

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ABOUT SPEC RG

The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system
evaluation and analysis both with classical performance metrics - such
as response time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as
other extra-functional system properties included under the term
dependability - such as availability, reliability, and security.
Contributions of interest span the design of metrics for system
evaluation as well as the development of methodologies, techniques and
tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload
characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing
systems. Visit http://research.spec.org for more details about SPEC RG.

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NOMINATIONS

A nomination should include:
-  A nomination letter with the name of the student, the title of the
   dissertation, the institution where the dissertation was defended,
   and the date of the defense.
-  A one-page report that outlines the outstanding contribution of the
   dissertation. The dissertation itself, including a one-page extended
   abstract of the dissertation. If the dissertation is written in a
   language other than English, it may be accompanied by publications,
   in English, describing the same research as the dissertation.

The SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that
have been defended between October 1, 2013, and September 30, 2014.
If there are several outstanding submissions, the committee may split
the award between them.

The submission deadline is September 30, 2014. Nominations are welcome
at any time before the final submission deadline. Nominations, or
questions about the application process, should be sent by e-mail to
<nominations at spec dot org>. Self-nominations are not accepted.

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SELECTION COMMITTEE

- Chair: Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Andrew Bond, RedHat, USA
- Klaus-Dieter Lange, HP, USA
- Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA
- Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA
- Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA
- Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA


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Dipl.-Inform. André van Hoorn

University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Software Technology
Reliable Software Systems (RSS) Group
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