[sigcomm] Workshop on Experimental Computer Science: Program and Call for Participation

[Dror Feitelson]

          Workshop on EXPERIMENTAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
                           San Diego, 13-14 June 2007
                                 Part of ACM FCRC
                    In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

                               http://www.expcs.org

Computer science has a well-established theory and practice, but less
focus on experimental methodologies and scientific observation per se.
Our goals in initiating this workshop are
 1. To strengthen and bolster the experimental approach to computer
science, and increase its visibility
 2. To help make experimental computer science more scientific, by
promoting work on core methodological issues
 3. To provide a venue for the publication of work on experimental
computer science independent of its use in specific studies

FCRC early registration deadline: 11 May 2007.
FCRC Hotel group rate cutoff date: 9 May 2007.

Advance Program:
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007

Keynote: David Johnson
  What is the Science in Experimental Computer Science?

Measurement Challenge:
  Quantifying The Cost of Context Switch
     Chuanpeng Li, Chen Ding, and Kai Shen
  Context Switch Overheads for Linux on ARM Platforms
     Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, and Roy H. Campbell
  The Context-Switch Overhead Inflicted by Hardware Interrupts (and
the Enigma of    Do-Nothing Loops)
     Dan Tsafrir

[FCRC Planery (Avi Wigderson)]

Measurements and Metrics:
  Analysis of Input-Dependent Program Behavior Using Active Profiling
     Xipeng Shen, Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Michael L. Scott,
Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Mitsunori Ogihara
  Quantifying the Performance Isolation Properties of Virtualization Systems
     Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Wenjin Hu, Madhujith Hapuarachchi, Todd
Deshane, Demetrios Dimatos, Gary Hamilton, Michael McCabe, and Jim
Owens
  An Analysis of XML Binary Formats and Compression
     Christopher J. Augeri, Barry E. Mullins, Leemon C. Baird III,
Dursun A. Bulutoglu, and Rusty O. Baldwin
  A User-Centric Metric for Denial-Of-Service Measurement
     Jelena Mirkovic, Alefiya Hussain, Brett Wilson, Sonia Fahmy,
Peter Reiher, Roshan Thomas, Wei-Min Yao, and Stephen Schwab

Education Roundtable:
 * Daniel Menascé, Course on Quantitative Methods and Experimental Design in CS
 * Fabián Bustamante, Interactive Labs for Experimental Systems in Education
 * Catherine McGeoch, Experiences with Experimentation in
Undergraduate Theory Courses
 * Ethan Miller, Getting Experimental Approaches into OS Courses
 * Moderator: Dror Feitelson


Thursday, 14 June 2007

Connections:
  The User In Experimental Computer Systems Research
     Peter Dinda, Gokhan Memik, Robert Dick, Bin Lin, Arindam Mallik,
Ashish Gupta, and  Samuel Rossoff
  Experimental Economics and Experimental Computer Science: A Survey
     Jens Grossklags

Theory:
  High-Contrast Algorithm Behavior: Observation, Conjecture, and
Experimental Design
     Matthias F. Stallmann and Franc Brglez
  Performance Testing of Combinatorial Solvers With Isomorph Class Instances
     Franc Brglez and Jason A. Osborne
  EXACT: The EXperimental Algorithmics Computational Toolkit
     William E. Hart, Jonathan W. Berry, Robert Heaphy, and Cynthia A. Phillips

[FCRC Planery (Guy Steele)]

Architecture:
  Pipeline Spectroscopy
     T. R. Puzak, A. Hartstein, V. Srinivasan, P. G. Emma, and A. Nadas
  Measuring Performance, Power, and Temperature from Real Processors
     Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Michael Brown, Joseph
Nayfach-Battilan, and Jose Renau
  Introducing Entropies for Representing Program Bahaviors and Branch
Prediction Performances
     Takashi Yokota, Kanemitsu Ootsu, and Takanobu Baba
  Empirical Performance Assessment Using Soft-Core Processors on
Reconfigurable Hardware
     Richard Hough, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Roger D. Chamberlain, Ron
K. Cytron, John Lockwood, and Jason Fritts

Infrastructure for experimentation:
  RA: ResearchAssistant for the Computational Sciences
     Daniel Ramage and Adam Oliner
  An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems
     Samantha Lo, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Lorenzo Colitti
  RiceNIC: A Reconfigurable Network Interface for Experimental
Research and Education
     Jeffrey Shafer and Scott Rixner
  Rapid File System Development Using ptrace
     Richard P. Spillane, Charles P. Wright, Gopalan Sivathanu, and Erez Zadok