The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer systems and networks. The 32nd edition of this conference will take place on October 21-23, 2024 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Krakow, Poland. The conference will bring together academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks and refereed paper presentations, including workshops.

We encourage original submissions describing state-of-the-art research in the areas of the performance evaluation of computer systems and networks as well as in related areas. Papers describing results of theoretical and/or practical significance are welcome. Experimental, modeling, and simulation studies are all in the scope of the conference. Papers focusing on novel performance evaluation methods or providing insights on design and runtime management tradeoffs are particularly encouraged.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Big data and advanced machine learning techniques for system design, optimization, and cybersecurity
Cloud/edge/fog technologies
Combining quality of service and cybersecurity in system performance
Computer architectures, multi-core processors, accelerators (e.g., GPUs), and memory systems
Computer networks, protocols, and algorithms
Databases and big data systems and technologies
Internet-of-Things
Mobile systems
Multimedia systems
Operating systems and virtualization technologies
Security in computer and communication systems
Smart grids and cyber-physical systems
Social networks
Storage and file systems
Sustainable (or energy-efficient) computing
Web systems, enterprise applications, and web services
Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks

Submissions must be formatted in IEEE style using two-columns and may be up to 8 pages in length, including tables, figures, appendices, and references.

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements (approval pending). In addition to IEEE Xplore, in recent years a selection of accepted papers have also been invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue in the Performance Evaluation (PEVA) journal. Papers that are not accepted for the conference program will be considered for the MASCOTS'24 Workshop and, if accepted, may then be published in another Open Access venue.

Program Committee
Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
Jussara Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jonatha Anselmi, INRIA, France
Varsha Apte, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Belen Bermejo, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Louiza Bouallouche, University of Bejaia, Algeria
Jalil Boukhobza, ENSTA-Bretagne, France
Peter Buchholz, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Luca Caviglione, IMATI-CNR, Italy
Tadeusz Czachorski, IITIS – Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jerzy Domżał, AGH, Poland
Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy
Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
Jean-Michel Fourneau, University of Versailles, France
Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University, USA
Erol Gelenbe, IITIS – Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Krzysztof Grochla, IITIS – Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland
Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Bo Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Carlos Juiz, University of Balearic Islands, Spain
Joanna Kolodziej, NASK, Poland
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Zhiling Lan, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Luisa Massari, University of Pavia, Italy
Deepak Mishra, University of New South Wales, Australia
Andrzej Pach, AGH, Poland
Nihal Pekergin, University of Paris-Est, France
Jayaram Radhakrishnan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Gerardo Rubino, INRIA Rennes, France
Miltiadis Siavvas, CERTH-ITI, Greece
Karl Sigman, Columbia University, USA
Amoghavarsha Suresh, Meta, USA
Asser Tantawi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Y.C. Tay, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Miklos Telek, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Daniele Tessera, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Unversity of Twente, Netherlands
Marco Vieira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Muhammad Wajahat, Google, USA

Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs: Tadeusz Czachorski (IITIS PAN, Poland) & Erol Gelenbe (IITIS PAN, Poland)
Program Co-Chairs: Maria Carla Calzarossa (University of Pavia, Italy) & Krzysztof Grochla (IITIS PAN, Poland)
Publication Chair: Luisa Massari (University of Pavia, Italy)
Publicity Chair: Konrad Polys (IITIS PAN, Poland)
Local Arrangements Chair: Michal Gorawski (IITIS PAN, Poland)

Venue

The conference will be held at Radisson Blu Hotel, Krakow, Poland.

All questions about submissions should be emailed to mascots2024 at easychair dot org