Bench’21 Call for Papers
2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on
Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench’ 21)
http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html
November 14-16, 2021, Virtual Conference
Important Dates:
Abstracts: July 16, 2021
Full Papers: July 30, 2021
Notification: September 15, 2021
Final Papers Due: October 11, 2021
The Bench conference encompasses a wide range of topics in benchmarking, measurement, evaluation methods and tools. Bench’s multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm, and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation, measurement and optimization, and dataset generation.
Manuscripts describing original work in the area of benchmarking, evaluation methods and tools in Big Data, AI, HPC and Computing Architectures on one of the following topics are welcome.
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Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations.
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Dataset Generation and Analysis.
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Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies.
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Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools.
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Measurement and evaluation.
Please refer to the long version of the call for papers for more details (https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/cfp.html ).
Paper Submission: The full version of the paper should be submitted as a PDF file following the submission guidelines available at the conference website at : https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/guideline.html. Submission issues should be directed to the program chairs (wanglei_2011@ict.ac.cn, axel.ngonga@uni-paderborn.de, cliu@clarkson.edu). Please consult the Bench’21 website for additional information about the conference and submission details.
Publication: All accepted papers will be presented at the Bench’21 conference and will be published in a special issue of the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation (TBench).
Awards: Bench’21 conference will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000)，and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from all organizations, the Bench conference presents the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using publicly available benchmarks. Each article receives a $100 prize, for up to 12 articles. Please check the conference webpage for more information.
Steering Committee: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University), D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University), Felix Wolf (TU Darmstadt), Xiaoyi Lu (University of California, Merced), Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS), Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & BenchCouncil).
General Chairs: Resit Sendag (University of Rhode Island, USA), Arne J. Berre (SINTEF Digital, Norway).
Program Chairs: Lei Wang (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Axel Ngonga (Paderborn University), Chen Liu (Clarkson University).
Special Session Chair: Xiaoyi Lu (The University of California, Merced)
Publications Chair: Chunjie Luo (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Registration Chair: Fanda Fan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Technical Support Chair: Ke Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Publicity Chairs: Chen Zheng (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhen Jia (Amazon), Biwei Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Pengfei Chen (Sun Yat-sen University).
Web Chair: Guoxin Kang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)