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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>bitte berücksichtigen Sie den nachfolgenden Aufruf zur Nominierung bemerkenswerter Dissertationen im Bereich Computer Benchmarking, Performance Evaluation und Experimental System Analysis im Allgemeinen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mit freundlichen Grüßen<span lang=EN-US>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Christoph Heger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CALL FOR NOMINATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award 2015 https://research.spec.org/awards/call-for-nominations.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadline: September 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SPEC DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION AWARD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award aims to recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general. Nominated dissertations will be evaluated in terms of scientific originality, scientific significance, practical relevance, impact, and quality of the presentation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the ICPE 2016 International Conference on Performance Engineering. Past winners can be found at http://research.spec.org/awards/past-winners.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>ABOUT SPEC RG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The SPEC Research Group promotes research in quantitative system evaluation and analysis both with classical performance metrics - such as response time, throughput, scalability and efficiency, as well as other extra-functional system properties included under the term dependability - such as availability, reliability, and security. Contributions of interest span the design of metrics for system evaluation as well as the development of methodologies, techniques and tools for measurement, load testing, profiling, workload characterization, dependability and efficiency evaluation of computing systems. More details on the award can be found at http://research.spec.org/awards.html<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>NOMINATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>A nomination should include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• A nomination letter with the name of the student, the title of the dissertation, the institution where the dissertation was defended, and the date of the defense.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• A one-page report that outlines the outstanding contribution of the dissertation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• The dissertation itself, including a one-page extended abstract of the dissertation. If the dissertation is written in language other than English, it may be accompanied by publications, in English, describing the same research as the dissertation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between October 1, 2014, and September 30, 2015. If there are several outstanding submissions, the committee may split the award between them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The submission deadline is September 30, 2015. Nominations are welcome at any time before the final submission deadline. Nominations, or questions about the application process, should be sent by e-mail to nominations at spec dot org. The nomination can be provided by anyone except the thesis author. Typically, it is the thesis advisor or a member of the thesis defense committee, but other people – especially experts in performance evaluation – can do so as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SELECTION COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Chair: Lizy Kurian John, UT Austin, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Members (Tentative)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Mauricio Breternitz, AMD, USA,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Yaomin Chen, Oracle, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>• Klaus-Dieter Lange, HP, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• John Murphy, Dublin Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>• Catalina M. 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