SIGMETRICS News

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Jean Walrand Wins the 2013 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Jean Walrand of UC Berkeley as the recipient of the 2013 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his work developing rigorous mathematical approaches for performance analysis which have led to results that have had significant industrial impact. ...more...

Debasis Mitra Wins the 2012 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Debasis Mitra of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent as the recipient of the 2012 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the modeling, analysis and design of communication networks. ...more...

Marc Lelarge Wins the 2012 Rising Star Researcher Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Marc Lelarge of INRIA as the recipient of the 2012 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award in recognition of his significant contributions towards developing performance analytic approaches for large random structures and their implications to economics of communication networks....more...

SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE 2012 is June 11-15 in London, UK

More information is available at the conference website.

Adam Wierman Wins the 2011 Rising Star Researcher Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce that Dr. Adam Wierman from Caltech is the recipient of the 2011 Rising Star Researcher Award. The citation for his award reads "For fundamental insights into scheduling and fairness in modern computer systems." ...more...

Onno J. Boxma Wins the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Onno J. Boxma from Eindhoven University as the recipient of the 2011 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award. The citation for his award reads "For outstanding contributions to queueing theory and exceptional leadership in the performance evaluation community." ...more...

2010 SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award Winners Announced

Congratulations to Jeff P. Buzen, Mark E. Crovella, Azer Bestavros, Derek Eager, Ed Lazowska and John Zahorjan, inaugural awardees of the SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award. ...more...

ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 is June 7-11 in San Jose, CA

ACM SIGMETRICS 2011 will be part of ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). The CFP is available at the conference website.

Milan Vojnovic Wins the 2010 SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Milan Vojnovic of Microsoft Research as the recipient of the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the analysis and performance-oriented design of computer systems and services. ...more...

Jeffrey P. Buzen Wins the 2010 SIGMETRICS Achievement Award

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Jeffrey P. Buzen as the recipient of the 2010 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award. This prestigious award recognizes his contributions to queuing network modeling and performance evaluation. ...more...

SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 Videos and Papers Now Available

Videos of talk sessions and keynotes as well as electronic copies of all SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 papers are now available at the conference website.

ACM SIGMETRICS 2010 is June 14-18 in New York, NY

ACM SIGMETRICS 2010 will be held at Columbia University in New York City. A preliminary CFP is available at the conference website.

New "Test of Time" Award Created

The ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award recognizes an influential performance evaluation paper whose impact is still felt 10-12 years after its initial publication. The inaugural winners of this newly-created award will be announced at ACM SIGMETRICS 2010 in New York.

2009 SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award goes to...

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Alexandre Proutiere of Microsoft Research as the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Researcher Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the analysis and design of distributed control mechanisms in wired and wireless data networks. ...more...

2009 SIGMETRICS Achievement Award goes to...

ACM SIGMETRICS is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Frank Kelly of the University of Cambridge as the recipient of the 2009 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory and optimization of stochastic networks and their applications to computer and communication systems. ...more...

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Conferences

  • SIGMETRICS is the flagship conference of the SIGMETRICS community.
  • Performance is the flagship conference of IFIP WG 7.3 and occurs jointly with SIGMETRICS once every three years.
  • IMC is at the intersection between SIGCOMM and SIGMETRICS, focusing on Internet measurement.
  • SenSys focuses on the design, implementation, and application of sensor networks.
  • Greenmetrics is a high profile workshop that focuses on both designing sustainable ICT systems and using ICT to improve sustainability.
  • MAMA is a high profile workshop that focuses on mathematical performance modeling tools.
  • ValueTools bridges the study of performance methodologies and the development of tools for performance evaluation.
  • ICPE (formerly WOSP) focuses on the intersection of software design and performance evaluation.

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Publications

  • Performance Evaluation Review (PER) is the SIGMETRICS quarterly review. PER is a refereed publication that features guest edited special issues from leading researchers in the field.
  • Other SIGMETRICS publications
    The ACM Digital library provides a convenient archive of all SIGMETRICS publications, including PER and conference proceedings.