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Call for Late Breaking Papers

Call for Late Breaking Papers CMG'08 / Las Vegas December 7th - 12th, 2008

One constant in today’s environments is change. To help keep us all as up to date as possible,, CMG calls for LATE-BREAKING TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS to be presented at the 34^th International Conference to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 7^th through 12^th, 2008. Late Breaking presentations should be focused on something which has only become available since the regular paper deadline in June.

The 2008 CMG conference will cover load and stress testing, benchmarking, performance optimization, software performance engineering, resource management, capacity analysis, simulation and analytic modeling, and cost management with special emphasis on Capacity Planning for green datacenters, Performance Visualization, Virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), IT Service Management and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and the technology implications of globalization. This could include operating system and database announcements, mobile computing, networking, storage, applied math, modeling and virtualization.

We are also interested in "How To" presentations that explain the application of newly announced/available tools and services to important performance & capacity tasks. "How To" presentations are meant to educate performance professionals in the application of late-breaking technologies.

Submissions at all levels are encouraged: tutorial, technical, and managerial. We require submissions (papers or PowerPoint slides with speaker's notes) no later than October 1^st for consideration for inclusion in the conference. Earlier submissions are encouraged, as CMG '08 timeslots will be limited and decisions for acceptance made on a case-by-case basis.

Critical Dates for Late-Breaking Paper Submission
Title, Abstract & Paper Due *	Oct 1, 2008
Author Acceptance Notification	Oct 15, 2008

Submissions should be e-mailed to the conference Program Chair at using a paper or PowerPoint format as described under the 'Papers' section of the conference web page at www.cmg.org/conference/cmg2008/speaker-info.html. Look for the sub-title of 'Paper Format Guidelines' if submitting a presentation in a paper format, or look for the sub-title of 'PowerPoint Guidelines' if submitting a presentation in a slide format with substantive notes. Finally, CMG Presentation Policies will be in effect for all submissions which can be viewed as a sub-title under 'Papers'.

The author will be notified of acceptance/non-acceptance of their presentation by CMG HQ via e-mail no later than Oct 15, 2008. If the submission is accepted, the e-mail will be followed by the hard copy official paperwork (license to publish, speaker discount, etc.).