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SIGMETRICS Viability Review

Carey WilliamsonChair, ACM SIGMETRICS

September 20, 2010

SIGMETRICS focuses on “Measurement and Evaluation”.We promote research in computer systems performanceevaluation, including the theoretical development of newperformance analysis techniques, as well as the practicaluse of known methods and tools in diverse application areas(e.g., CPU, OS, networks, P2P, storage, Web, wireless).

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Financial Status

Healthy fund balance ($460K) Steady growth over past 20 years ($15K/yr) Small surplus from each conference Expanded conference partnerships About 500 members, but slowly declining Dues ($20) unchanged for many years Digital Library revenues solid (1M

downloads!) Interest income on nest egg helpful as well Contemplating new spending initiatives

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Membership Benefits Outreach to the Performance

Evaluation research community Web site: www.sigmetrics.org Annual conference: SIGMETRICS Workshops: MAMA, GreenMetrics Quarterly print newsletter: PER Mailing list for SIG members SIG awards program

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Goal 1: Visibility Enhance the external visibility of our SIG

Updated SIGMETRICS Web site: SIG, people, awards, news, procedures, policies Conference Web site hosting/archiving

Expanded conference partnerships: Co-sponsored events (IMC, SenSys, WOSP/ICPE) In cooperation events (QEST, QTNA, ValueTools)

Awards and recognition: Achievement, Rising Star, Test of Time CACM RH nominations, ACM membership grades

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Goal 2: Community Strengthen sense of community for

performance evaluation researchers

Updated SIGMETRICS Web site Annual report to members (conf, email) SIGMETRICS history initiative

Conferences, officers, stories, trivia, Web General “performance” mailing list Conference partnerships (Europe, Asia) SIGMETRICS 2012 in London, UK

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Goal 3: Membership Value Maintain and grow membership base

SIG mailing list cleanup and survey Workshop paper abstracts in PER Student support (conf travel, memberships) New journal proposal: Transactions

on Modeling and Performance Evaluation

Commemorative CD for 40th birthday SIG initially created November 19, 1971

Recruiting the next SIG leaders