SIGMETRICS FY'04 Annual Report
July 2003 - June 2004
Submitted by: Leana Golubchik, SIGMETRICS Chair
SIGMETRICS had a good year.
The SIGMETRICS conference continues to be a high quality conference. We continue to receive a large number of submissions, and our acceptance rate at the 2004 conference was approximately 12%. This was a joint conference with Performance 2004, jointly sponsored with IFIP Working Group 7.3. Several workshops are now included as part of the conference's tutorials/workshops program (not all of these occur every year). These workshops include: Workshop on Mathematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA), Practical Aspects of Performance Analysis (PAPA), Performance and Architecture of Web Servers (PAWS), Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP), and Algorithms and Architectures for Self-Managing Systems (AASMS). (The last one was sponsored jointly with ISCA in 2003.) We continue to support student travel through industrial funds.
The SIG is now supporting and is also in cooperation with several other conferences, in addition to its main one, including ACM SenSys and WOSP (International Workshop on Software and Performance).
The second ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award was given at the 2004 Conference. The recipient was Dr. Kenneth C. Sevcik.
The SIG is also exploring approaches to improve services offered to its members; one such example is the provision of the PE Grad Student Database on its web page, which includes a database of students in performance evaluation who are graduating and looking for academic and industrial jobs.
Some of the issues the SIG will consider in the next several years include:
-- keeping the annual conference vital
-- starting a new award for more junior people
-- membership retention
-- considering use of electronic proceedings
-- expanding sponsorship of other conferences and workshops
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