Best Paper Awards
ICPE 2024
10-year Most Influential Paper Award: Diego Perez-Palacin; Raffaela Mirandola. Uncertainties in the modeling of self-adaptive systems: a taxonomy and an example of availability evaluation
Best Paper Award (Research Track): Zebin Ren; Krijn Doekemeijer; Nick Tehrany; Animesh Trivedi. BFQ, Multiqueue-Deadline, or Kyber? Performance Characterization of Linux Storage Schedulers in the NVMe Era
Runners-up:
Júnior Löff; Filippo Schiavio; Andrea Rosà; Matteo Basso; Walter Binder. Vectorized Intrinsics Can Be Replaced with Pure Java Code without Impairing Steady-State Performance
Lukas Alt; Anara Kozhokanova; Thomas Ilsche, Christian Terboven; Matthias Müller. An Experimental Setup to Evaluate RAPL Energy Counters for Heterogeneous Memory
Best Industry Paper Award: Sören Henning; Adriano Vogel; Michael Leichtfried; Otmar Ertl; Rick Rabiser. ShuffleBench: A Benchmark for Large-Scale Data Shuffling Operations with Distributed Stream Processing Frameworks
Runners-up:
Shrey Pandey; Saikat Kumar Das; Hrishikesh Ganu; Satyajeet Singh. Rethinking ‘Complement’ Recommendations at Scale with SIMD
Best Data Challenge Paper Award: Andrea D'Angelo; Giordano D’Aloisio. Grammar-Based Anomaly Detection of Microservice Systems Execution Traces
Best Poster or Demo Award: Sai Sindhur Malleni; Raul Sevilla Canavate; and Vishnu Challa. Into the Fire: Delving into Kubernetes Performance and Scale with Kube-burner
ICPE 2023
10-year Most Influential Paper Award: Nikolas Herbst; Nikolaus Huber; Samuel Kounev; Erich Amrehn. Self-Adaptive Workload Classification and Forecasting for Proactive Resource Provisioning
Best Paper Award (Research Track): Raffaela Groner; Peter Bellmann; Stefan Höppner; Patrick Thiam; Friedhelm Schwenker; Matthias Tichy. Predicting the Performance of ATL Model Transformations
Runners-up:
Talha Mehboob; Noman Bashir; Michael Zink; David Irwin. Is Sharing Caring? Analyzing the Incentives for Shared Cloud Clusters
Stephen Nicholas Swatman; Ana Lucia Varbanescu; Andy Pimentel; Andreas Salzburger; Attila Krasznahorkay. Systematically Exploring High-Performance Representations of Vector Fields Through Compile-Time Compositions
Yueming Hao; Nikhil Jain; Rob Van der Wijngaart; Nirmal Saxena; Yuanbo Fan; Xu Liu. DrGPU: A Top-Down Profiler for GPU Applications
Best Industry Paper Award: Aris Leivadeas; Nikolai Pitaev; Matthias Falkner. Analyzing the Performance of SD-WAN Enabled Service Function Chains Across the Globe with AWS
Best Data Challenge Paper Award: Jared Chad Swanzen; Kyle Thomas Botes; Husnaa Molvi; Omphile Monchwe; Dan Phala; Dustin van der Haar. Analysing Static Source Code Features to Determine a Correlation to Steady State Performance in Java Microbenchmarks
Runners-up:
Lukas Beierlieb; Andre Bauer; Robert Leppich; Lukas Ifflaender; Samuel Kounev. Efficient Data Processing: Assessing the Performance of Different Programming Languages
ICPE 2022
10-year Most Influential Paper Award: Sadeka Islam; Kevin Lee; Alan Feke; Anna Lui. How a consumer can measure elasticity for cloud platforms Video
Research Track: Richard Li; Min Du; Zheng Wang; Hyunseok Chang; Sarit Mukherjee; Eric Eide. LongTale: Toward Automatic Performance Anomaly Explanation in Microservices Video
Runners-up:
Chuanming Shao; Jinyang Guo; Pengyu Wang; Jing Wang; Chao Li; Minyi Guo. Oversubscribing GPU Unified Virtual Memory: Implications and Suggestions Video
Industry/Experience Track: Lixiang Luo; I-Hsin Chung; Seetharami Seelam; Ming-hung Chen; Yun Joon Soh. NVMe Virtualization for Cloud Virtual Machines Video
Runners-up:
Martin Straesser; Johannes Grohmann; Jóakim von Kistowski; Simon Eismann; André Bauer; Samuel Kounev. Why Is It Not Solved Yet?: Challenges for Production-Ready Autoscaling Video
ICPE 2021
10-year Most Influential Paper Award: Catia Trubiani; Anne Koziolek. Detection and solution of software performance antipatterns in Palladio architectural models
Research Track: Laura Carnevali; Riccardo Reali; Enrico Vicario. Compositional evaluation of stochastic workflows for response time analysis of composite web services
ICPE 2020
10-year Most Influential Paper Award: Anne Martens (now Koziolek), Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker, Ralf Reussner. Automatically Improve Software Architecture Models for Performance, Reliability, and Cost Using Evolutionary Algorithms
Research Track: Juliana Alves Pereira, Mathieu Acher, Hugo Martin, Jean-Marc Jézéquel. Sampling Effect on Performance Prediction of Configurable Systems: A Case Study Video Slides Animated Slides
Runners-up:
Yutong Zhao, Lu Xiao, Xiao Wang, Lei Sun, Bihuan Chen, Yang Liu, Andre Bondi. How Are Performance Issues Caused and Resolved?-An Empirical Study from a Design Perspective Video Slides
Thang Le Duc, Mark Leznik, Jörg Domaschka, Per-Olov Östberg. Workload Diffusion Modeling for Distributed Applications in Fog/Edge Computing Environment Video Slides
Zakaria Ournani, Mohammed Chakib Belgaid, Romain Rouvoy, Pierre Rust, Joel Penhoat, Lionel Seinturier. Taming Energy Consumption Variations In Systems Benchmarking Video Slides
ICPE 2019
Research Track: Carl Pearson, Abdul Dakkak, Sarah Hashash, Cheng Li, I-Hsin Chung, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-Mei Hwu. Evaluating Characteristics of CUDA Communication Primitives on High-Bandwidth Interconnects
Runners-up:
Tatsushi Inagaki, Yohei Ueda, Takuya Nakaike, Moriyoshi Ohara. Profile-based Detection of Layered Bottlenecks
Industry/Experience Track: Jóakim von Kistowski, Johann Pais, Tobias Wahl, Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hansfried Block, John Beckett, Samuel Kounev. Measuring the Energy Efficiency of Transactional Loads on GPGPU
Runners-up:
Andreas Burger, Heiko Koziolek, Julius Rückert, Marie Platenius-Mohr, Gösta Stomberg. Bottleneck Identification and Performance Modeling of OPC UA Communication Models
ICPE 2018
Research Track: Shi Dong; Xiang Gong; Yifan Sun; Trinayan Baruah; David Kaeli. Characterizing the Microarchitectural Implications of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Execution on GPUs
Runners-up:
Markus Weninger; Hanspeter Mössenböck. User-defined Classification and Multi-level Grouping of Objects in Memory Monitoring
Kundi Yao; Guilherme B. de Pádua; Weiyi Shang; Steve Sporea; Andrei Toma; Sarah Sajedi. Log4Perf: Suggesting Logging Locations for Web-based Systems’ Performance Monitoring
Industry/Experience Track: John Nicol, Chen Li, Peinan Chen, Tao Feng; Haricharan Ramachandra. ODP: An Infrastructure for On-Demand Service Profiling
Runners-up:
Nikolai Pitaev, Matthias Falkner, Aris Leivadeas; Ioannis Lambadaris. Characterizing the Performance of Concurrent Virtualized Network Functions with OVS-DPDK, FD.IO VPP and SR-IOV
ICPE 2017
Research Track: Varsha Apte, T.V.S. Viswanath, Devidas Gawali, Akhilesh Kommireddy, Anshul Gupta. AutoPerf: Automated Load Testing and Resource Usage Profiling of Multi-Tier Internet Applications
Runners-up:
Cheng Wang, Qianlin Liang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar. An Empirical Analysis of Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Features Affecting Cost-effective Resource Procurement
Alexey Ilyushkin, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Nikolas Herbst, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos, Bogdan Ghit, Dick Epema, Alexandru Iosup. An Experimental Performance Evaluation of Autoscaling Policies for Complex Workflows
Tyler Szepesi, Benjamin Cassell, Tim Brecht, Derek Eager, Jim Summers, Bernard Wong. Using Libception to Understand and Improve HTTP Streaming Video Server Throughput
ICPE 2016
Research Track: Weikun Wang, Giuliano Casale, Ajay Kattepur, Manoj Nambiar. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Closed Queueing Network Demands from Queue Length Data
Runners-up:
Niklas Carlsson. Optimized eeeBond: Energy Efficiency with non-Proportional Router Network Interfaces
Industry/Experience Track: Michael J. Steindorfer and Jurgen J. Vinju. Performance Modeling of Maximal Sharing
ICPE 2015
Research Track: Qiushi Wang, Katinka Wolter. Reducing Task Completion Time in Mobile Offloading Systems through Online Adaptive Local Restart
Runners-up:
Weiyi Shang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Mohamed Nasser, Parminder Flora. Automated Detection of Performance Regressions Using Regression Models on Clustered Performance Counters
Industry/Experience Track: Manu Awasthi, Tameesh Suri, Zvika Guz, Anahita Shayesteh, Mrinmoy Ghosh, Vijay Balakrishnan. System-Level Characterization of Datacenter Applications
Runners-up:
Zhenyun Zhuang, Haricharan Ramachandra, Cuong Tran, Subbu Subramaniam, Chavdar Botev, Chaoyue Xiong, Badri Sridharan. Capacity Planning and Headroom Analysis for Taming Database Replication Latency: Experiences with LinkedIn Internet Traffic
ICPE 2014
Research Track: Peter Libič, Lubomír Bulej, Vojtěch Horky, Petr Tůma. On the limits of modeling generational garbage collector performance
Runners-up:
Diego Perez-Palacin and Raffaela Mirandola. Uncertainties in the modeling of self-adaptive systems: a taxonomy and an example of availability evaluation
Industry/Experience Track: Jianbin Fang, Henk Sips, LiLun Zhang, Chuanfu Xu, Yonggang Che, Ana Lucia Varbanescu. Test-driving Intel Xeon Phi
Runners-up:
Thomas R.W. Scogland, Craig P. Steffen, Torsten Wilde, Florent Parent, Susan Coghlan, Natalie Bates, Wu-chun Feng, Erich Strohmaier. A power-measurement methodology for large-scale, high-performance computing
ICPE 2013
Research Track: Balaji Subramaniam, Wu-chun Feng. Towards energy-proportional computing for enterprise-class server workloads
Runners-up:
Christoph Heger, Jens Happe, Roozbeh Farahbod. Automated root cause isolation of performance regressions during software development
Jean-Michel Fourneau, Katinka Wolter, Philipp Reinecke, Tilman Krauß, Alexandra Danilkina. Multiple class G-networks with restart
Industry/Experience Track: Klaus Dieter Lange, Jeremy A. Arnold, Hansfried Block, Nathan Totura, John Beckett, Mike G. Tricker. Further implementation aspects of the server efficiency rating tool (SERT)
Runners-up:
Tilmann Rabl, Meikel Poess, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Patrick O'Neil, Elizabeth O'Neil. Variations of the star schema benchmark to test the effects of data skew on query performance
ICPE 2012
Best in Innovation Paper Award (Research Track): Giuliano Casale and Peter Harrison. A class of tractable models for run-time performance evaluation
Best Industry-Related Paper Award (Research Track): Thijmen de Gooijer, Anton Jansen, Heiko Koziolek, Anne Koziolek. An industrial case study of performance and cost design space exploration
Best Student Paper Award (Research Track): Vlastimil Babka, Peter Libič, Tomáš Martinec, Petr Tůma. On the accuracy of cache sharing models
ICPE 2011
Best Paper Award (Research Track): Gokcen Kestor, Vasileios Karakostas, Osman S. Unsal, Adrian Cristal, Ibrahim Hur, Mateo Valero. RMS-TM: a comprehensive benchmark suite for transactional memory systems
Best Paper Award (Research Track): Catia Trubiani and Anne Koziolek. Detection and solution of software performance antipatterns in palladio architectural models