ICPE 2013 Proceedings

• Introduction
• Session 1: Tutorials
• Holistic Optimization of Distribution Automation Network Designs Using Survivability Modeling and Power Flow Equations (Page 1)
  Anne Koziolek (University of Zurich)
  Alberto Avritzer (Siemens Corporation)
  (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
• Use Case-Driven Performance Engineering without "Concurrent Users" (Page 3)
  (Formalit)

• Session 2: Keynote Address I
• Automated Modeling of Complex Data Center Applications (Page 13)
  Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

• Session 3: Research Track Best Paper Candidates
• Towards Energy-Proportional Computing for Enterprise-Class Server Workloads (Page 15)
  Balaji Subramaniam (Virginia Tech)
  Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech)
• Automated Root Cause Isolation of Performance Regressions During Software Development (Page 27)
  Christoph Heger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Jens Happe (SAP Research)
  Roozbeh Farahbod (SAP Research)
• Multiple Class G-Networks with Restart (Page 39)
  Jean-Michel Fourneau
  Katinka Wolter
  Philipp Reinecke (HP Labs Bristol)
  
  Alexandra Danilkina

• Session 4: Performance Modeling and Evaluation
• Mean-Field Analysis of Data Flows in Wireless Sensor Networks (Page 51)
  Marcel C. Guenther (Imperial College London)
  Jeremy T. Bradley (Imperial College London)
• When Spatial and Temporal Locality Collide: The Case of the Missing Cache Hits (Page 63)
  Mattias De Wael (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  David Ungar (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
  Tom Van Cutsem (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
• On Load Balancing: A Mix-Aware Algorithm for Heterogeneous Systems (Page 71)
  Sebastiano Spicuglia (University of Lugano)
  (IBM Research Zurich Lab)
  Lydia Y. Chen (IBM Research Zurich Lab)
  Giuseppe Serazzi (Politecnico di Milano)
  Walter Binder (University of Lugano)
  Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary)

• Session 5: Software Performance Modeling
• Decision Support via Automated Metric Comparison for the Palladio-based Performance Blame Analysis (Page 77)
  (University of Paderborn)
  Gregor Engels (University of Paderborn)
  Steffen Becker (University of Paderborn)
• Propagation of Incremental Changes to Performance Model due to SOA Design Pattern Application (Page 89)
  Nariman Mani (Carleton University)
  Dorina C. Petriu (Carleton University)
  Murray Woodside (Carleton University)
• Rapid Performance Modeling by Transforming Use Case Maps to Palladio Component Models (Page 101)
  Christian Vogel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Heiko Koziolek (ABB Corporate Research)
  Thomas Goldschmidt (ABB Corporate Research)
  Erik Burger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Non-Markovian Analysis for Model Driven Engineering of Real-Time Software (Page 113)
  Laura Carnevali
  Marco Paolieri
  Alessandro Santoni
  Enrico Vicario
• Scalability Testing of MS Lync Services: Towards Optimal Provisioning of Virtualised Hardware (Page 125)
  Knut Helge Rygg (IDI, NTNU)
  Gunnar Brataas (SINTEF ICT and IDI, NTNU)
  Geir Millstein (Telenor GID)
  Terje Molle (Telenor GID)

• Session 6: Performance Analysis and Benchmarking I
• DataMill: Rigorous Performance Evaluation Made Easy (Page 137)
  Augusto Born de Oliveira (University of Waterloo)
  Jean-Christophe Petkovich (University of Waterloo)
  Thomas Reidemeister (University of Waterloo)
  Sebastian Fischmeister (University of Waterloo)
• Workload Resampling for Performance Evaluation of Parallel Job Schedulers (Page 149)
  Netanel Zakay (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Dror G. Feitelson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Improving the Scalability of a Multi-core Web Server (Page 161)
  Raoufehsadat Hashemian (University of Calgary)
  Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary)
  Martin Arlitt (HP Labs)
  Niklas Carlsson
• Modeling Performance of a Parallel Streaming Engine: Bridging Theory and Costs (Page 173)
  Ivan Bedini (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  Sherif Sakr (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  Bart Theeten (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  Alessandra Sala (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
  Peter Cogan (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)

• Session 7: Keynote Address II
• Supporting Operations Personnel through Performance Engineering (Page 185)
  Len Bass (NICTA)

• Session 8: Performance Analysis and Benchmarking II
• Self-Adaptive Workload Classification and Forecasting for Proactive Resource Provisioning (Page 187)
  Nikolas Roman Herbst (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Nikolaus Huber (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Erich Amrehn (IBM Research & Development)
• COSBench: Cloud Object Storage Benchmark (Page 199)
  Qing Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  Haopeng Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  Yaguang Wang (Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd.)
  Jian Zhang (Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd.)
  Jiangang Duan (Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd.)
• Parallelism Profiling and Wall-time Prediction for Multi-threaded Applications (Page 211)
  Achille Peternier (University of Lugano)
  Walter Binder (University of Lugano)
  Akira Yokokawa (University of Lugano)
  Lydia Chen (IBM Research Lab)

• Session 9: Performance Modeling and Prediction
• Stream-Based Event Prediction Using Bayesian and Bloom Filters (Page 217)
  Miao Wang (University College Dublin)
  Viliam Holub (University College Dublin)
  John Murphy (University College Dublin)
  Patrick O'Sullivan (IBM Software Group)
• On-Line Fair Allocations Based on Bottlenecks and Global Priorities (Page 229)
  Yoel Zeldes (The Hebrew University)
  Dror G. Feitelson (The Hebrew University)
• Survivability Models for the Assessment of Smart Grid Distribution Automation Network Designs (Page 241)
  Alberto Avritzer (Siemens Corporation)
  Sindhu Suresh (Siemens Corporation)
  (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Edmundo de Souza e Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
  Morganna Carmem Diniz (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro)
  Kishor Trivedi (Duke University)
  Lucia Happe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Anne Koziolek (University of Zurich)
• Benchmarking Approach for Designing a MapReduce Performance Model (Page 253)
  Zhuoyao Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
  Ludmila Cherkasova (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
  Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)

• Session 10: Performance in Cloud, Virtualized and Multi-Core Systems
• Towards Building Performance Models for Data-intensive Workloads in Public Clouds (Page 259)
  Rizwan Mian (Queen's University)
  Patrick Martin (Queen's University)
  Farhana Zulkernine (Queen's University)
  Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
• vPerfGuard: An Automated Model-Driven Framework for Application Performance Diagnosis in Consolidated Cloud Environments (Page 271)
  Pengcheng Xiong (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Xiaoyun Zhu (VMware Inc.)
  Rean Griffith (VMware Inc.)
• Predictive Performance Modeling of Virtualized Storage Systems using Optimized Statistical Regression Techniques (Page 283)
  Qais Noorshams (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Dominik Bruhn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Ralf Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Experimental Analysis of Task-Based Energy Consumption in Cloud Computing Systems (Page 295)
  Feifei Chen (Swinburne University of Technology)
  John Grundy (Swinburne University of Technology)
  Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology)
  Jean-Guy Schneider (Swinburne University of Technology)
  Qiang He (Swinburne University of Technology)

• Session 11: Vision and Work-in-Progress Papers
• Towards a Standard Event Processing Benchmark (Page 307)
  Marcelo R. N. Mendes (University of Coimbra)
  Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra)
  Paulo Marques (University of Coimbra)
• Towards a Methodology Driven by Relationships of Quality Attributes for QoS-based Analysis (Page 311)
  Steffen Becker (University of Paderborn)
  Lucia Happe (Kapova) (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano)
  Catia Trubiani (University of L'Aquila)
• Assessing Computer Performance with SToCS (Page 315)
  Leonardo Piga (University of Campinas)
  Gabriel F. T. Gomes (University of Campinas)
  Rafael Auler (University of Campinas)
  Bruno Rosa (University of Campinas)
  Sandro Rigo (University of Campinas)
  Edson Borin (University of Campinas)
• Towards a Workload Model for Online Social Applications (Page 319)
  Alexandru-Corneliu Olteanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest)
  Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology)
  (University Politehnica of Bucharest)
• A Robust Optimization for Proactive Energy Management in Virtualized Data Centers (Page 323)
  Ibrahim Takouna (University of Potsdam)
  Wesam Dawoud (University of Potsdam)
  Kai Sachs (SAP AG)
  Christoph Meinel (University of Potsdam)
• A Meta-Model for Performance Modeling of Dynamic Virtualized Network Infrastructures (Page 327)
  Piotr Rygielski (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Steffen Zschaler (King's College London)
  Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Performance Modelling of Database Contention using Queueing Petri Nets (Page 331)
  David Coulden (Imperial College London)
  Rasha Osman (Imperial College London)
  William J. Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)
• CloudScale: Scalability Management for Cloud Systems (Page 335)
  Gunnar Brataas (SINTEF ICT & IDI, NTNU)
  Erlend Stav (SINTEF ICT)
  Sebastian Lehrig
  Steffen Becker
  Goran Kop?ak (Ericsson Nikola Tesla)
  Darko Huljenic (Ericsson Nikola Tesla)
• A Generic Approach for Architecture-Level Performance Modeling and Prediction of Virtualized Storage Systems (Page 339)
  Qais Noorshams (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Andreas Rentschler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  Ralf Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Adaptive Deployment in Ad-Hoc Systems Using Emergent Component Ensembles: Vision Paper (Page 343)
  (Charles University in Prague & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  (Charles University in Prague & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
  (Charles University in Prague)
  Jaroslav Keznikl (Charles University in Prague & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

• Session 12: Keynote Address III
• Data Centric Computing for Internet Scale Enterprises (Page 347)
  Yuqing Gao (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

• Session 13: Industry Track Best Paper Candidates
• Further Implementation Aspects of the Server Efficiency Rating Tool (SERT) (Page 349)
  Klaus-Dieter Lange (Hewlett-Packard Company)
  Jeremy A. Arnold (IBM Corporation)
  Hansfried Block (Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH)
  Nathan Totura (Intel Corporation)
  John Beckett (Dell Inc.)
  Mike G. Tricker (Microsoft Corporation)
• Variations of the Star Schema Benchmark to Test the Effects of Data Skew on Query Performance (Page 361)
  Tilmann Rabl (University of Toronto)
  Meikel Poess (Oracle Corporation)
  Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)
  Patrick O'Neil (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
  Elizabeth O'Neil (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

• Session 14: SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award
• Monitoring-as-a-Service in the Cloud (Page 373)
  Shicong Meng (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

• Session 15: Performance Analysis and Benchmarking III
• Deriving Coloured Generalised Stochastic Petri Net Performance Models from High-Precision Location Tracking Data (Page 375)
  Nikolas Anastasiou (Imperial College London)
  William Knottenbelt (Imperial College London)
• Resource Availability Based Performance Benchmarking of Virtual Machine Migrations (Page 387)
  Senthil Nathan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
  Purushottam Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
  Umesh Bellur (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
• Overcoming Memory Limitations in High-Throughput Event-Based Applications (Page 399)
  Marcelo R. N. Mendes (University of Coimbra)
  Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra)
  Paulo Marques (University of Coimbra)
• Systematic Performance Evaluation Based on Tailored Benchmark Applications (Page 411)
  Christian Weiss (SAP Research)
  Dennis Westermann (SAP Research)
  Christoph Heger (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
  Martin Moser (SAP AG)

• Session 16: Poster and Demonstration Papers
• On Time-Average Limits in Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets (Page 421)
  (Masaryk University)
  (Masaryk University)
  (Masaryk University)
  (Masaryk University)
  (Masaryk University)
• Model-Based Performance Testing in the Cloud Using the MBPeT Tool (Page 423)
  Fredrik Abbors
  Tanwir Ahmad
  Dragos Truscan
  Ivan Porres
• SPECsip Infrastructure and Application Benchmarks (Page 425)
  Yao-Min Chen (Oracle)
  Azeem Jiava (Oracle)
  Madhava Dass (Oracle)
  Victoria Roxas (Intel)
  Sam Warner (Intel)
  Gary DeVal (IBM)
  Wei Chen (Voxeo Labs)
  Kenny Lee (Voxeo Labs)
• MockTell: Exploring Challenges of User Emulation in Interactive Voice Response Testing (Page 427)
  Siddhartha Asthana (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)
  Pushpendra Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)
  Amarjeet Singh (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi)
• Introduction to Dynamic Program Analysis with DiSL (Page 429)
  (Charles University)
  Yudi Zheng (University of Lugano)
  Danilo Ansaloni (University of Lugano)
  (Charles University)
  Aibek Sarimbekov (University of Lugano)
  Walter Binder (University of Lugano)
  Zhengwei Qi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• FINCoS: Benchmark Tools for Event Processing Systems (Page 431)
  Marcelo R. N. Mendes (University of Coimbra)
  Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra)
  Paulo Marques (University of Coimbra)