SPEC RG Newsletter Launched

This regular publication will provide you with information on latest developments, news and announcements relevant to the benchmarking and quantitative system evaluation communities.

We are proud to launch the first edition of the SPEC Research Group Newsletter. This regular publication will provide you with information on latest developments, news and announcements relevant to the benchmarking and quantitative system evaluation communities. Our newsletter is part of our mission to foster the exchange of knowledge and experiences between industry and academia in the field of quantitative system evaluation and analysis.

This first issue includes among others a report from the 2nd Research Group (RG) Face-to-Face Meeting held on April 26th in Boston, a report on the 3nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2012) co-sponsored by the SPEC RG, a report on the current activities and latest developments in the RG Cloud working group as well as in the newly formed working group on intrusion detection, abstracts of selected papers from ICPE 2012, extended abstracts of the first two dissertations to win the SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award, and finally brief descriptions of the first tools published in our new peer-reviewed tool repository.

We hope you will enjoy reading this issue and welcome and encourage your contributions for articles and suggestions for future coverage.

The first issue can be downloaded from here.

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