Companion of the 2018 ACM/SPEC International Conference

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2018), being held in Berlin, Germany from April 9 to 13, 2018. The goal of the ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia.

The call for contributions solicited submissions for several tracks, namely for research papers, industry/experience papers, work-in-progress/vision papers, artifacts (for accepted full papers), posters and demonstrations, tutorials, and workshops.

In the research track, 14 out of 59 papers were accepted as full papers. Hence, the full paper acceptance rate is 24 %. Two full papers received an ACM artifact badge after the subsequent review process in the newly introduced artifact evaluation track. Seven submissions were accepted as short research papers. In the industry/experience track, four out of 16 papers were accepted as full papers. Six submissions were accepted as short papers. The awards chairs selected three papers from the research track and two papers from the industry/experience track as candidates for the best paper award. The winner for both tracks will be announced during the banquet, after the candidates have presented their work during the conference. In the work-in-progress/vision track, ten out of 23 papers were accepted.

The technical program features the following three invited keynotes:

Peter Braam: Performance Engineering for the SKA Telescope
Michael R. Lyu: AI Techniques in Software Engineering Paradigm
Aad van Moorsel: Benchmarks and Models for Blockchain

In addition, the technical program includes three tutorials, the presentation of the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award, a poster and demonstration session, as well as six workshops on Performance Analysis of Big data Systems (PABS), Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf), Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C), Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB), Energy-aware Simulation and Modelling (ENERGY-SIM), and Quality-Aware DevOps (QUDOS).

The program covers traditional ICPE topics such as performance modeling, prediction, optimization, monitoring, profiling, load testing, benchmarking, and runtime adaptation for fields such as cloud and high performance computing, big data, energy, and enterprise applications.

Work-in-Progress & Vision Papers
Posters and Demos
Tutorials
ENERGY-SIM Workshop
HotCloudPerf Workshop
LTB Workshop
PABS Workshop
QUDOS Workshop
WOSP-C Workshop

Work-in-Progress & Vision Papers

The Vision of Self-aware Reordering of Security Network Function Chains

Authors: Lukas Iffländer; Jürgen Walter; Simon Eismann; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186309
Pages: 1 – 4

An Auto-Tuning Framework for a NUMA-Aware Hessenberg Reduction Algorithm

Authors: Mahmoud Eljammaly; Lars Karlsson; Bo Kågström
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186304
Pages: 5 – 8

Towards an Efficient Benchmark Generation Engine for Garbage Collection

Authors: A. Omar Portillo-Dominguez
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186303
Pages: 9 – 12

ABench: Big Data Architecture Stack Benchmark

Authors: Todor Ivanov; Rekha Singhal
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186300
Pages: 13 – 16

Towards Scalability Guidelines for Semantic Data Container Management

Authors: Gunnar Brataas; Bernd Neumayr; Christoph G. Schuetz; Audun Vennesland
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186302
Pages: 17 – 20

A SPEC RG Cloud Group’s Vision on the Performance Challenges of FaaS Cloud Architectures

Authors: Erwin van Eyk; Alexandru Iosup; Cristina L. Abad; Johannes Grohmann; Simon Eismann
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186308
Pages: 21 – 24

DIBS: A Data Integration Benchmark Suite

Authors: Anthony M. Cabrera; Clayton J. Faber; Kyle Cepeda; Robert Derber; Cooper Epstein; Jason Zheng; Ron K. Cytron; Roger D. Chamberlain
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186307
Pages: 25 – 28

SPECnet: Predicting SPEC Scores using Deep Learning

Authors: Dibyendu Das; Prakash Raghavendra; Arun Ramachandran
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186301
Pages: 29 – 32

Towards Performance Engineering of Model Transformation

Authors: Raffaela Groner; Matthias Tichy; Steffen Becker
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186305
Pages: 33 – 36

Performance Modelling of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

Authors: Tomas Bures; Vladimir Matena; Raffaela Mirandola; Lorenzo Pagliari; Catia Trubiani
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186306
Pages: 37 – 40

Posters and Demos

SPEC CPU2017: Next-Generation Compute Benchmark

Authors: James Bucek; Klaus-Dieter Lange; Jóakim v. Kistowski
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185771
Pages: 41 – 42

Application Speedup Characterization: Modeling Parallelization Overhead and Variations of Problem Size and Number of Cores.

Authors: Victor H. F. Oliveira; Alex F. A. Furtunato; Luiz F. Silveira; Kyriakos Georgiou; Kerstin Eder; Samuel Xavier-de-Souza
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185770
Pages: 43 – 44

Criticality-aware Design Space Exploration for Mixed-Criticality Embedded Systems

Authors: Vittoriano Muttillo; Giacomo Valente; Luigi Pomante
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185769
Pages: 45 – 46

Challenges in Multicore Performance Predictions

Authors: Markus Frank; Floriment Klinaku; Steffen Becker
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185773
Pages: 47 – 48

SPARK Job Performance Analysis and Prediction Tool

Authors: Rekha Singhal; Chetan Phalak; Praveen Singh
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185772
Pages: 49 – 50

On the Simulation of Processors Enhanced for Security in Virtualization

Authors: Swapneel C. Mhatre; Priya Chandran; Jithin R.
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185774
Pages: 51 – 52

Tutorials

Tools for Declarative Performance Engineering

Authors: Jürgen Walter; Simon Eismann; Johannes Grohmann; Dušan Okanovic; Samuel Kounev
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185777
Pages: 53 – 56

Measuring and Benchmarking Power Consumption and Energy Efficiency

Authors: Jóakim von Kistowski; Klaus-Dieter Lange; Jeremy A. Arnold; Sanjay Sharma; Johann Pais; Hansfried Block
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3185775
Pages: 57 – 65

ENERGY-SIM Workshop

Zero-Energy Internet-of-Things: Energy-SIM’18 Workshop Keynote Abstract

Authors: Boudewijn Haverkort
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186314
Pages: 66 – 66

Combining Energy Saving Techniques in Data Centres using Model-Based Analysis

Authors: Björn F. Postema; Tobias Van Damme; Claudio De Persis; Pietro Tesi; Boudewijn R. Haverkort
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186310
Pages: 67 – 72

Modular Energy Modeling using Energy/Utility

Authors: Marcus Hähnel; Till Smejkal
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186311
Pages: 73 – 78

Energy-Driven Reconfiguration of Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors: Vittorio Cortellessa; Antinisca Di Marco; Daniele Di Pompeo; Francesco Gallo; Stefano Pace; Luigi Pomante; Walter Tiberti
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186312
Pages: 79 – 84

Evaluation of Energy Consumption of Replicated Tasks in a Volunteer Computing Environment

Authors: A. Stephen McGough; Matthew Forshaw
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186313
Pages: 85 – 90

HotCloudPerf Workshop

Autoscaling Performance Measurement Tool

Authors: Anshul Jindal; Vladimir Podolskiy; Michael Gerndt
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186293
Pages: 91 – 92

CAUS: An Elasticity Controller for a Containerized Microservice

Authors: Floriment Klinaku; Markus Frank; Steffen Becker
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186296
Pages: 93 – 98

Cloud-Scale Java Profiling at Alibaba

Authors: Fangxi Yin; Denghui Dong; Chuansheng Lu; Tongbao Zhang; Sanhong Li; Jianmei Guo; Kingsum Chow
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186295
Pages: 99 – 100

Package-Aware Scheduling of FaaS Functions

Authors: Cristina L. Abad; Edwin F. Boza; Erwin van Eyk
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186294
Pages: 101 – 106

An Analysis of Workflow Formalisms for Workflows with Complex Non-Functional Requirements

Authors: Laurens Versluis; Erwin van Eyk; Alexandru Iosup
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186297
Pages: 107 – 112

A Performance Study of Big Data Workloads in Cloud Datacenters with Network Variability

Authors: Alexandru Uta; Harry Obaseki
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186299
Pages: 113 – 118

LTB Workshop

CC4CS: an Off-the-Shelf Unifying Statement-Level Performance Metric for HW/SW Technologies

Authors: Vittoriano Muttillo; Giacomo Valente; Luigi Pomante; Vincenzo Stoico; Fausto D’Antonio; Fabio Salice
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186291
Pages: 119 – 122

Towards Automating Representative Load Testing in Continuous Software Engineering

Authors: Henning Schulz; Tobias Angerstein; André van Hoorn
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186288
Pages: 123 – 126

Better Early Than Never: Performance Test Acceleration by Regression Test Selection

Authors: David Georg Reichelt; Stefan Kühne
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186289
Pages: 127 – 130

A Workload-Dependent Performance Analysis of an In-Memory Database in a Multi-Tenant Configuration

Authors: Dominik Paluch; Harald Kienegger; Helmut Krcmar
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186290
Pages: 131 – 134

PABS Workshop

Investigation of Replication Factor for Performance Enhancement in the Hadoop Distributed File System

Authors: Hilmi Egemen Ciritoglu; Leandro Batista de Almeida; Eduardo Cunha de Almeida; Teodora Sandra Buda; John Murphy; Christina Thorpe
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186359
Pages: 135 – 140

Exploratory Analysis of Spark Structured Streaming

Authors: Todor Ivanov; Jason Taaffe
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186360
Pages: 141 – 146

QUDOS Workshop

Towards the Performance Analysis of Apache Tez Applications

Authors: José Ignacio Requeno; Iñigo Gascón; José Merseguer
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186284
Pages: 147 – 152

Continuous Integration of Performance Model

Authors: Manar Mazkatli; Anne Koziolek
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186285
Pages: 153 – 158

Trace Checking of Streaming Applications through DICE-TraCT

Authors: Marcello M. Bersani; Francesco Marconi; Matteo Rossi
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186287
Pages: 159 – 160

A Cloud Benchmark Suite Combining Micro and Applications Benchmarks

Authors: Joel Scheuner; Philipp Leitner
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186286
Pages: 161 – 166

Diagnosis of Privacy and Performance Problems in the Context of Mobile Applications

Authors: David Monschein; Robert Heinrich; Christoph Heger
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186283
Pages: 167 – 172

WOSP-C Workshop

Software Performance Testing in Virtual Time

Authors: Tony Field; Robert Chatley; David Wei
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186409
Pages: 173 – 174

Challenges in Automating Performance Tool Support

Authors: Connie U. Smith; Vittorio Cortellessa; Abel Gómez; Samuel Kounev; Catalina Lladó; Murray Woodside
DOI: 10.1145/3185768.3186410
Pages: 175 – 176