Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software and performance

Abstract

Welcome to WOSP'07 in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires!WOSP'07 is a venue for active interchange of ideas from people working in various fields of computing and telecommunications. Focusing on the intersection of software and performance, this international workshop brings together software engineers, developers, performance analysts and modelers who study, create and use tools and methods that address the new issues in the field of software performance. Modern distributed applications, often based on mobility, with heterogeneous and intermittent connections, add unforeseen challenges every day, and demand new approaches for modeling and analyzinge the performance characteristics of design alternatives in all the phases of the software lifecycle. However, this achievingement the goal is often defied often challenging by because of increasing system complexity, rapidly evolving software technologies, short time to market, incomplete documentation, and poorly defined requirements.WOSP'07 is the sixth in the series of International Workshop on Software and Performance that began in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1998. This year the workshop is being held for the first time in South America, and we are fortunate to have it in Argentina. We hope you will take the time to enjoy the city in addition to the workshop. Therefore, welcome to WOSP'07 in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires!This year's technical program is as strong as ever. We received 39 submissions which were thoroughly reviewed by an expert program committee. From these 13 were accepted as full papers, 4 were accepted as experience papers and 8 as short papers. The workshop will be is structured in 8 sessions over covering 3 days. Session topics span from a range of domains including Software Performance Modeling and Engineering, through Resource-Awareness to and Performance of Mobile Systems. Two sessions will be dedicated to short papers. We are confident that the body of knowledge selected for WOSP'07 will contribute, on one hand, to the advancement of the state of the art in the field and, on the other hand, to filling the gap between the academic and industrial worlds. Only theise synergy between these two worlds may allow can ensure that to software performance modeling and analysis to will become stable standard practices in the software development processes.In addition to papers, the workshop includes tutorials and working sessions. We are also pleased to have two distinguished keynote speakers, that are: Dr. Rich Friedrich from HP and Dr. Carlo Ghezzi from Politecnico di Milano.