[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================== 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium (Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (Same place and same time), but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data, AI, Block Chain, HPC, Datacenter, IoT, Edge and other things. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a highquality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and practitioners from the architecture, system, algorithms and application communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award (3000$), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award (1000$), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award (1000$). As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates, hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To that end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral. Call for papers ------------------------ Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Synthetics or Real-world Data Sets of: **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmark, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Test methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big Data -AI -HPC -Machine learning in HPC -Big scientific data -Datacenter -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT -Block chain -Data management and storage -Medicine, Finance and Education Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page limit is 4 pages in standard twocolumn IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed by EI). Please note that LNCS format is the final one for publishing. After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight, or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in the proceedings as full-length papers. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is preregistered will be pulled from the proceedings. Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20# Improtant Dates --------------------- Registration of abstract (non-mandatory) June 15, 2020 Paper Submission July 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification Aug 15, 2020 Awards ---------- At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include: * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each paper $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral) - BenchCouncil incubates, hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To that end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) TPC Chairs Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Submission Chair Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Publicity Chairs Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Zhen Jia (Amazon) Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Woongki Baek, UNIST Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zhen Jia, Amazon Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Huan Liu, Arizona State University Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University Arne Berre, SINTEF Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Benson Muite, University of Tartu K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Ben Blamey, Uppsala University Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd. Juby Jose, Intel