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                                        CALL FOR PAPERS

        The Sixth Annual IEEE International Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-6)

                                Austin, Texas, October 27, 2003
                            Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and 
                        the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture
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New computer applications and programming paradigms are constantly emerging to complement 
new and improving technology. It is essential to understand the characteristics of today's emerging 
workloads in order to design efficient architectures for them. This one-day workshop, sponsored by 
IEEE and the Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, will focus on characterizing and 
understanding modern computer applications commercial and scientific computing.
Papers are solicited in all areas related to characterization of workloads  (system and / or 
application behavior) in a variety of computing environments. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):

*Workload characterization or related studies focusing on the following types of applications:
  - E-commerce         - Web server
  - Database           - Embedded
  - Mobile             - Multimedia
  - Java               - Network computing
  - Multiprocessor     - Scientific
  - OS intensive       - Multi-threaded
* Effects of architectural features on workload behavior
* Machine independent characterization of workloads
* Memory and I/O access patterns
* Benchmark creation and validation
* Representative trace generation
* Profiling, trace collection and validation Issues
* Workload synthesis
* Abstract modeling of program behavior

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES:
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 Paper Submission: August 1, 2003 
       * Automatic extension to August 8, 2003 
 Acceptance Notified: September 17, 2003 
 Final Manuscript Submission: September 24, 2003

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
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 Lizy K. John                           Ann Marie G. Maynard
 The University of Texas at Austin      IBM Research Lab
 ljohn@ece.utexas.edu                   amg@us.ibm.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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 Rajeev Kumar Barua, University of Maryland
 Bryan Black, Intel Corporation
 Pradip Bose, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
 Doug Burger, The University of Texas at Austin
 Steven Chin, Intel Corporation
 Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University
 Kelly Flanagan, Brigham Young University
 Ravishankar Iyer, Intel Corporation
 Lizy Kurian John, The University of Texas at Austin
 David Kaeli, Northeastern University
 Charles Lefurgy, IBM Research Lab
 Ann Marie Maynard, IBM Research Lab
 Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Dell
 Steven K. Reinhardt University of Michigan
 Daniel J. Sorin, Duke University
 Deepu Talla, Texas Instruments
 Nasr Ullah, Motorola

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND MORE INFORMATION:
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 For more information on paper submission guidelines and the conference:
 http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ljohn/wwc/