Call for Contributions

The ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, innovations, trends, and experiences in the field of performance engineering.

ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software, networks, and systems. The conference covers performance modeling, analysis, measurement, benchmark design, and run-time performance management, focusing on classical metrics like response time, throughput, resource utilization, and energy efficiency, as well as their relation to scalability, availability, reliability, cost, and sustainability.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Performance Measurement and Empirical Evaluation: Data collection techniques, simulation, measurement, instrumentation, profiling, controlled experiment design, data-driven experiments, diagnostics, data management and interchange, tool interoperability, statistical analysis, exploration, visualization, visual data mining.
• Performance Benchmarking: Design and standardization process, benchmark suites, investigative benchmarks, benchmark synthesis, benchmark workload generation, benchmarking energy efficiency, resilience, stability, security, and related quality metrics.
• Performance Modeling of Software and Systems: Approaches and metrics for describing performance and related quality attributes, modeling languages and formalisms, modeling methods and tools, explanatory and predictive models, online models, model learning and extraction techniques, model validation and calibration, workload characterization.
• Design and Development Processes: Requirements engineering, agile and experiment-driven techniques, devops, performance-oriented design, software architectures, performance patterns, performance testing, model-driven engineering, humans in the loop, ethical concerns.
• Run-time Performance Management and Adaptation: Adaptive systems, monitoring, autotuning, elasticity and autoscaling, power management, virtualization and consolidation, resource scheduling, capacity management, anomaly detection, service level (definition and monitoring).
• Platform-Related Optimizations: Parallel programming, multi-core and many-core systems, compiler optimizations, managed languages, and runtime optimization, performance and efficiency of hardware accelerators and novel memory systems.

Systems of Interest

Systems of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cyber-physical domain, IoT, industrial internet
• Networked and embedded systems
• Advanced computer architectures, including non-von Neumann
• Communication networks, wireless and mobile
• Peer-to-peer environments, ad-hoc networks
• Machine learning and AI-based systems
• SOA, microservices, web-based environments
• Big data systems, stream, and graph processing
• HPC systems, cloud, edge, grid, and fog
• Social networks, multimedia systems, and applications

Types of Submissions

ICPE has eight distinct submission tracks:

• Research track: For regular research papers.
• Industry track: For contributions connecting to the industry.
• Journal-first track: For contributions from recent journal publications.
• Artifact track: For sharing software and data artifacts.
• Emerging research track: For discussing preliminary or vision contributions.
• Poster and demo track: For short, interactive contributions.
• Tutorials track: For presentations by leading scientists and practitioners.
• Workshops track: For specific aspects of performance engineering.
• Data challenge track: For addressing challenges presented by a performance dataset.

Important Dates

• Research Track:
  • Abstract submission (optional): October 25, 2025 (AoE)
  • Paper submission: November 01, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: December 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 12, 2025 (AoE)
• Industry Track:
  • Abstract submission (optional): October 25, 2025 (AoE)
  • Paper submission: November 01, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: December 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 12, 2025 (AoE)
• Workshops Track:
  • Proposal submission: October 11, 2024 (AoE)
  • Notification: October 18, 2024 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Artifact Track:
  • Proposal submission: January 15, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: February 28, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Poster and Demo Track:
  • Paper submission: January 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: February 10, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Industry Presentation Track:
  • Submission: February 02, 2025 (AoE)
  • Author Notification: February 23, 2025 (AoE)
• Tutorial Track:
  • Paper submission: January 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: February 10, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Data Challenge Track:
  • Paper submission: January 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: February 10, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)
• Journal First Track:
  • Paper submission: January 20, 2025 (AoE)
  • Notification: February 1, 2025 (AoE)
• Emerging Research Track:
  • Paper submission: January 26, 2025 (AoE)
  • Camera-ready version: March 19, 2025 (AoE)

Submission Guidelines

• Authors should adhere to the specific requirements for each track.
• Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost for certain contributions.
• Submissions should be made in PDF format.
• LaTeX and MS Word templates are available. Authors are encouraged to use the provided templates for formatting.
• A double-blind review process is followed, requiring authors to anonymize their submissions.

Registration

Registration for ICPE 2025 is now open. Please visit the registration page for details.