TPC TC 2010 - Second TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation & Benchmarking (TPC TC 2010)

First established in August 1988, the TPC has shaped the landscape of modern transaction processing and database benchmarks over two decades. Now, the world is in the midst of an extraordinary information explosion. Enterprise data and user generated data levels continue to grow exponentially. This has challenged researchers and industry experts to develop innovative techniques to evaluate and benchmark software and hardware technologies.

As a result, the TPC is conducting its second Technology Conference (TPCTC 2010) in conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010). With this conference, the TPC encourages researchers and industry experts to submit novel ideas and methodologies in performance evaluation, measurement, and characterization in the following areas:

Appliance
Business Intelligence ?
Cloud computing ?
Complex event processing
Database optimizations
Green computing
Data compression
Disaster tolerance and recovery
Energy and space efficiency
Hardware innovations
High speed data generation
Hybrid workloads
Unstructured data management
Software management and maintenance
Virtualization
Very large memory systems
Lessons learnt in using TPC workloads
Enhancements to TPC workloads
Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.

Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We also encourage the submission of extended abstracts, position statement papers and lessons learned in practice. The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers should follow the LNBIP format, see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-... for details. The title page must contain a short abstract. A template in word can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_d.... All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the review web site at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/tpctc2010/.

Important Dates

Abstracts due
Papers due
Notification of acceptance
Camera-ready copies
Workshop session
June 18
June 25
July 26
July 30
September 17 (8:30 - 18:00)

Conference Venue and Registration
Please visit the VLDB10 conference web site at http://www.vldb2010.org.

Proceedings
Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Selected papers may be considered for future TPC benchmark developments.

TPCTC 2010 Organization
General Chair
Raghunath Nambiar, Hewlett-Packard, raghu.nambiar-AT-hp.com

Program Committee:
Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA, Committee Chair, meikel.poess-AT-oracle.com
Alain Crolotte, Teradata, USA
Badriddine Khessib, Microsoft, USA
Berni Schiefer, IBM, Canada
Guogen Zhang, IBM, USA
Harumi Kuno, HP Labs, USA
Kai Sachs, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mike Molloy, Dell, USA
Paul Larson, Microsoft Research. USA
Peter Thawley, Sybase, USA
Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida, USA

Publicity Committee:
Nicholas Wakou, Dell, Committee Chair, nicholas_wakou-AT-dell.com
Jerrold Buggert, Unisys
Matthew Lanken, Oracle
Michael Majdalany, L&M Management Group
Forrest Carman, Owen Media

Keynote: C. Mohan, IBM Research