MERMAT 2013 - 2nd International Workshop on Measurement-based Experimental Research, Methodology and Tools

Measurement and associated tools play nowadays a fundamental role in iterative experimental research. This role includes the evaluation of protocols, systems and their associated components, etc. functionality and performance by means of reliable and verifiable tools following a systematic methodology. It is also anticipated that distributed measurement and associated tools will also become prominent in the context of operation and management of autonomic information communication infrastructures, at the equipment and monitoring level but also in support of higher-level control functionality such as on-line data analysis mining and diagnostic.
This workshop, co-located with Future Internet Week (FI Week) 2013, aims at gathering all research projects and initiatives under the measurement-based experimental research, methodology and tools thematic. Participants are invited to present their current research and developments on measurements and associated tools in the context of experimental research including simulation, emulation, prototypes, etc.
Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
Measurement techniques and tools specialized for traffic spatio-temporal properties, network and routing topology/properties, protocol performance, wireless/wireline technologies, etc. in experimental settings
Methods and techniques to generate repeatable, reproducible, and reliable measurements in experimental homogeneous/heterogeneous settings
Methods, techniques, and tools to reproduce representative experimental conditions
Measurement verification and comparison methods and techniques
Extrapolation and interpolation techniques
Sampling techniques, calibration / timing and synchronization techniques, etc.
Large-scale simulation and emulation distributed measurement methodology, tools, etc.
Distributed measurement techniques and tools for test-beds/experimental facilities including small to large-scale test-beds, federated test-beds, homogeneous/ heterogeneous test-beds, etc.
Advances on distributed measurement: agents, platforms and on-line analysis
Data-mining, interpretation, knowledge acquisition from experimental measurements
Modeling/analyzing experimental data by time series (frequency-domain/time-domain methods, parametric and non-parametric methods, univariate/multivariate) for exploratory analysis, prediction and quantitative forecasting, regression analysis, etc.
Multivariate experimental data analysis, e.g., analysis of variance, regression analysis, principal component analysis and variants, discriminant analysis and variants, etc.
Estimation methods and techniques using experimental data
Interval estimation and statistical hypothesis tests using sample of experimental data