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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The SPEC Kaivalya Dixit 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>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The winner will receive $1000, which will be awarded at the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://icpe2019.spec.org/" target="_blank" title="9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2018)"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#954F72">ICPE
2019 International Conference on Performance Engineering</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">A nomination consists of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>one</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>PDF file less than<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>20MB<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>that
must include the following information in this order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>nomination letter</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>with the name of the student, the title of the dissertation, the institution
where the dissertation was defended, and the date of the defense. The nomination letter should outline the outstanding contributions of the dissertation and should not exceed 2 pages (letter size) using 11 point font.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>C.V. of the nominee</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(up to three pages) that clearly marks all publications/technical
reports that are included in the dissertation.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>dissertation</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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></li></ul>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award is open to dissertations that have been defended between<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>October 2017,
and September 2018</b>. If there are several outstanding submissions, the committee may split the award between them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>submission deadline is September 30, 2018</b>. Nominations are welcome at any time before the final submission deadline.
Questions about the application process can be e-mailed to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>nominations at spec dot org</b>. Nominations should be uploaded to<span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specdissertationawar" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#954F72">EasyChair</span></a></span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">.
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>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Chair: Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">André van Hoorn (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Diwakar Krishnamurthy (University of Calgary, Canada)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6;background:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">
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