# SIGMETRICS

SIGMETRICS is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation, which specializes in the field of performance analysis, measurement, and modeling of computer systems. It is also the name of an annual 'flagship' conference, organized by SIGMETRICS since 1973, which is considered to be the leading conference in performance analysis and modeling in the world. Known to have an extremely competitive acceptance rate (~15%), many of the landmark works in the area have been published through it.
Beyond the flagship conference, SIGMETRICS also promotes research into performance evaluation through a number of other activities. It co-sponsors other prestigious conferences: the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), the ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), and the ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys). In addition, every third year the SIGMETRICS conference is held jointly with IFIP performance. Additionally, SIGMETRICS produces a newsletter, Performance Evaluation Review, with both peer-reviewed and editorial content.
SIGMETRICS has four awards that are given out on an annual basis:
* The SIGMETRICS Achievement Award, which recognizes a senior researcher who has made long-lasting influential contributions to computer/communication performance evaluation.
* The SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award, which recognizes a junior researcher who demonstrates outstanding potential for research in computer/communication performance evaluation.
* The SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award, which recognizes an influential SIGMETRICS paper from 10–12 years previously.
* The SIGMETRICS Doctoral Dissertation Award, which recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates.

## History

The group was formed as SIGME (Special Interest Committee on Measurement and Evaluation) in 1971, the name was changed to SIGMETRICS in 1972.

## Awards

Each year the group gives three awards, the lifetime achievement award, rising star award and test of time award.

### Achievement award

The achievement award is given each year to an individual who has made "long-lasting, influential contributions to the theory or practice of computer/communication system performance evaluation."
* 2024 Marco Ajmone Marsan
* 2023 Laurent Massoulié
* 2022 Balaji Prabhakar
* 2021 R. Srikant
* 2020 Leandros Tassiulas
* 2019 Mary K. Vernon
* 2018 Jim Dai
* 2017 Sem Borst
* 2016 John Tsitsiklis
* 2015 Bruce Hajek
* 2014 François Baccelli
* 2013 Jean Walrand
* 2012 Debasis Mitra
* 2011 Onno J. Boxma
* 2010 Jeffrey P. Buzen
* 2009 Frank Kelly
* 2008 Erol Gelenbe
* 2007 Don Towsley
* 2006 Richard R. Muntz
* 2005 Stephen S. Lavenberg
* 2004 Ken C. Sevcik
* 2003 Edward G. Coffman, Jr.

### Rising star award

The rising star award is given each year to an individual who "demonstrates outstanding potential for research in the field of computer and communication performance."
* 2022 Giulia Fanti
* 2021 Zhenhua Liu
* 2020 Kuang Xu
* 2019 Anshul Gandhi
* 2018 Longbo Huang
* 2017 Sewoong Oh
* 2016 Yi Lu
* 2015 Jinwoo Shin
* 2014 Florian Simatos
* 2013 Augustin Chaintreau
* 2012 Marc Lelarge
* 2011 Adam Wierman
* 2010 Milan Vojnovic
* 2009 Alexandre Proutiere
* 2008 Devavrat Shah

### Test of time award

The test of time award is given annually to the authors of papers whose "impact is still felt 10-12 years after its initial publication."

#### 2023

* Kim, M.; Sumbaly, R.; Shah, S. "Root Cause Detection in a Service-Oriented Architecture". SIGMETRICS 2013. doi:10.1145/2494232.2465753.

#### 2022

* Atikoglu, B.; Xu, Y.; Frachtenberg, E.; Jiang, S.; Paleczny, M. "Workload analysis of a large-scale key-value store". SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012. doi:10.1145/2318857.2254766.

#### 2021

* Liu, Z.; Lin, M.; Wierman, A.; Low, S.; Andrew, L.L.H. "Greening Geographical Load Balancing". SIGMETRICS 2011. doi:10.1145/1993744.1993767. hdl:1959.3/199309.

#### 2020

* Shah, D.; Zaman, T. "Detecting sources of computer viruses in networks: theory and experiment". SIGMETRICS 2010. doi:10.1145/1811039.1811063.

#### 2019

* Rajagopalan, S.; Shah, D.; Shin, J. "Network adiabatic theorem: an efficient randomized protocol for contention resolution". SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009. doi:10.1145/2492101.1555365.

#### 2018

* Lu, Y.; Montanari, A.; Prabhakar, B.; Dharmapurikar, S.; Kabbani, A. "Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement". SIGMETRICS 2008. doi:10.1145/1384529.1375472.

#### 2017

* Bairavasundaram, L. N.; Goodson, G. R.; Pasupathy, S.; Schindler, J. "An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives". SIGMETRICS 2007. doi:10.1145/1269899.1254917.

#### 2016

* Urgaonkar, B.; Pacifici, G.; Shenoy, P.; Spreitzer, M.; Tantawi, A. "An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications". SIGMETRICS 2005. doi:10.1145/1064212.1064252.

#### 2015

* Moore, A.; Zuev, D. "Internet traffic classification using bayesian analysis techniques". SIGMETRICS 2005. doi:10.1145/1064212.1064220.

#### 2014

* Blackburn, S.; Cheng, P.; McKinley, K. "Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection". SIGMETRICS 2004. doi:10.1145/1005686.1005693.

#### 2013

* Zhang, Y.; Roughan, M.; Duffield, N.; Greenberg, A. "Fast Accurate Computation of Large-Scale IP Traffic Matrices from Link Loads" (PDF). SIGMETRICS 2003. doi:10.1145/885651.781053.

#### 2012

* Bu, T.; Duffield, N.; Presti, F. L.; Towsley, D. "Network tomography on general topologies" (PDF). SIGMETRICS 2002. doi:10.1145/511334.511338.

#### 2011

* Chu, Yang-hua; Rao, Sanjay; Zhang, Hui. "A Case for End System Multicast" (PDF). SIGMETRICS 2000. doi:10.1145/339331.339337.
* Gao, Lixin; Rexford, Jennifer. "Stable Internet Routing without Global Coordination" (PDF). SIGMETRICS 2000. doi:10.1145/339331.339426.

#### 2010

* Buzen, Jeffrey P. "Fundamental Laws of Computer System Performance". SIGMETRICS 1976. doi:10.1145/800200.806196.
* Eager, Derek; Lazowska, Ed; Zahorjan, John. "A Comparison of Receiver-initiated and Sender-initiated Adaptive Load Sharing". SIGMETRICS 1985. doi:10.1145/317795.317802.
* Crovella, Mark E.; Bestavros, Azer. "Self-similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes" (PDF). SIGMETRICS 1996. doi:10.1145/233013.233038.

### Doctoral Dissertation award

The doctoral dissertation award is given each year to an individual to recognize excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of performance evaluation analysis of computer systems.
* 2023 Isaac Grosof
* 2022 Ziv Scully