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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The group was formed as <i>SIGME</i> (Special Interest Committee on Measurement and Evaluation) in 1971, the name was changed to SIGMETRICS in 1972.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <p>Each year the group gives three awards, the lifetime achievement award, rising star award and test of time award.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h3>Achievement award</h3> <p>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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>2024 <a href="https://networks.imdea.org/team/research-groups/opportunistic-architectures-lab/">Marco Ajmone Marsan</a></li> <li>2023 <a href="https://www.di.ens.fr/laurent.massoulie/">Laurent Massoulié</a></li> <li>2022 <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~balaji/bio.html">Balaji Prabhakar</a></li> <li>2021 <a href="https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/rsrikant">R. Srikant</a></li> <li>2020 <a href="https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/leandros-tassiulas">Leandros Tassiulas</a></li> <li>2019 <a href="/facts/Mary_K._Vernon/eQuy4KGR">Mary K. Vernon</a></li> <li>2018 Jim Dai</li> <li>2017 Sem Borst</li> <li>2016 <a href="/facts/John_Tsitsiklis/TggfM5wA">John Tsitsiklis</a></li> <li>2015 <a href="/facts/Bruce_Hajek/u6pvkwFS">Bruce Hajek</a></li> <li>2014 <a href="/facts/Fran%25C3%25A7ois_Baccelli/wdydt89R">François Baccelli</a></li> <li>2013 <a href="/facts/Jean_Walrand/7LW3eKXQ">Jean Walrand</a></li> <li>2012 <a href="/facts/Debasis_Mitra/dRKoaqst">Debasis Mitra</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>2011 <a href="/facts/Onno_J._Boxma/7s1SthnU">Onno J. Boxma</a></li> <li>2010 <a href="/facts/Jeffrey_P._Buzen/3jJj2d4o">Jeffrey P. Buzen</a></li> <li>2009 <a href="/facts/Frank_Kelly_(professor)/py3wGzH4">Frank Kelly</a></li> <li>2008 <a href="/facts/Erol_Gelenbe/9w6XrywD">Erol Gelenbe</a></li> <li>2007 <a href="/facts/Don_Towsley_(computer_scientist)/XAcrtvN0">Don Towsley</a></li> <li>2006 Richard R. Muntz</li> <li>2005 Stephen S. Lavenberg</li> <li>2004 Ken C. Sevcik</li> <li>2003 <a href="/facts/Edward_G._Coffman%2c_Jr./edFvmeDJ">Edward G. Coffman, Jr.</a></li></ul> <h3>Rising star award</h3> <p>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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>2022 <a href="https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gfanti/">Giulia Fanti</a></li> <li>2021 <a href="http://www.ams.stonybrook.edu/~zhliu/">Zhenhua Liu</a></li> <li>2020 <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~kuangxu/">Kuang Xu</a></li> <li>2019 <a href="http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~anshul/">Anshul Gandhi</a></li> <li>2018 <a href="https://people.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn/~huang/">Longbo Huang</a></li> <li>2017 <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~sewoong/">Sewoong Oh</a></li> <li>2016 <a href="http://simula.csl.illinois.edu/">Yi Lu</a></li> <li>2015 <a href="https://alinlab.kaist.ac.kr/shin.html">Jinwoo Shin</a></li> <li>2014 <a href="https://pagespro.isae-supaero.fr/florian-simatos/?lang=fr">Florian Simatos</a></li> <li>2013 Augustin Chaintreau</li> <li>2012 <a href="https://www.di.ens.fr/~lelarge/">Marc Lelarge</a></li> <li>2011 <a href="/facts/Adam_Wierman/VWn4F2T3">Adam Wierman</a></li> <li>2010 <a href="/facts/Milan_Vojnovic/hvhX9H3u">Milan Vojnovic</a></li> <li>2009 <a href="/facts/Alexandre_Proutiere/z7WJb2Ek">Alexandre Proutiere</a></li> <li>2008 <a href="/facts/Devavrat_Shah/7NpUDJ5H">Devavrat Shah</a></li></ul> <h3>Test of time award</h3> <p>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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h4>2023</h4> <ul><li>Kim, M.; Sumbaly, R.; Shah, S. "Root Cause Detection in a Service-Oriented Architecture". <i>SIGMETRICS 2013</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2494232.2465753">10.1145/2494232.2465753</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2022</h4> <ul><li>Atikoglu, B.; Xu, Y.; Frachtenberg, E.; Jiang, S.; Paleczny, M. "Workload analysis of a large-scale key-value store". <i>SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2318857.2254766">10.1145/2318857.2254766</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2021</h4> <ul><li>Liu, Z.; Lin, M.; Wierman, A.; Low, S.; Andrew, L.L.H. "Greening Geographical Load Balancing". <i>SIGMETRICS 2011</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1993744.1993767">10.1145/1993744.1993767</a>. <a href="/facts/Hdl_(identifier)/rdebSxmC">hdl</a>:<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1959.3%2F199309">1959.3/199309</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2020</h4> <ul><li>Shah, D.; Zaman, T. "Detecting sources of computer viruses in networks: theory and experiment". <i>SIGMETRICS 2010</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1811039.1811063">10.1145/1811039.1811063</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2019</h4> <ul><li>Rajagopalan, S.; Shah, D.; Shin, J. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1555365">"Network adiabatic theorem: an efficient randomized protocol for contention resolution"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2492101.1555365">10.1145/2492101.1555365</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2018</h4> <ul><li>Lu, Y.; Montanari, A.; Prabhakar, B.; Dharmapurikar, S.; Kabbani, A. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1375472">"Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS 2008</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1384529.1375472">10.1145/1384529.1375472</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2017</h4> <ul><li>Bairavasundaram, L. N.; Goodson, G. R.; Pasupathy, S.; Schindler, J. <a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1254917">"An analysis of latent sector errors in disk drives"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS 2007</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1269899.1254917">10.1145/1269899.1254917</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2016</h4> <ul><li>Urgaonkar, B.; Pacifici, G.; Shenoy, P.; Spreitzer, M.; Tantawi, A. <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1064252">"An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS 2005</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1064212.1064252">10.1145/1064212.1064252</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2015</h4> <ul><li>Moore, A.; Zuev, D. <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1064220">"Internet traffic classification using bayesian analysis techniques"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS 2005</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1064212.1064220">10.1145/1064212.1064220</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2014</h4> <ul><li>Blackburn, S.; Cheng, P.; McKinley, K. <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1005693">"Myths and realities: the performance impact of garbage collection"</a>. <i>SIGMETRICS 2004</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1005686.1005693">10.1145/1005686.1005693</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2013</h4> <ul><li>Zhang, Y.; Roughan, M.; Duffield, N.; Greenberg, A. <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/yzhang/papers/tomogravity-sigm03.pdf">"Fast Accurate Computation of Large-Scale IP Traffic Matrices from Link Loads"</a> (PDF). <i>SIGMETRICS 2003</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F885651.781053">10.1145/885651.781053</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2012</h4> <ul><li>Bu, T.; Duffield, N.; Presti, F. L.; Towsley, D. <a href="http://www.research.att.com/techdocs/TD_585N2C.pdf">"Network tomography on general topologies"</a> (PDF). <i>SIGMETRICS 2002</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F511334.511338">10.1145/511334.511338</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2011</h4> <ul><li>Chu, Yang-hua; Rao, Sanjay; Zhang, Hui. <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~srini/Papers/2002.Chu.jsac.pdf">"A Case for End System Multicast"</a> (PDF). <i>SIGMETRICS 2000</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F339331.339337">10.1145/339331.339337</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>Gao, Lixin; <a href="/facts/Jennifer_Rexford/vT4pFv6k">Rexford, Jennifer</a>. <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/sigmetrics00.pdf">"Stable Internet Routing without Global Coordination"</a> (PDF). <i>SIGMETRICS 2000</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F339331.339426">10.1145/339331.339426</a>.</li></ul> <h4>2010</h4> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Jeffrey_P._Buzen/3jJj2d4o">Buzen, Jeffrey P.</a> "Fundamental Laws of Computer System Performance". <i>SIGMETRICS 1976</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F800200.806196">10.1145/800200.806196</a>.</li> <li>Eager, Derek; Lazowska, Ed; Zahorjan, John. "A Comparison of Receiver-initiated and Sender-initiated Adaptive Load Sharing". <i>SIGMETRICS 1985</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F317795.317802">10.1145/317795.317802</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Mark_Edward_Crovella/dD6RhL4G">Crovella, Mark E.</a>; Bestavros, Azer. <a href="http://www.cs.bu.edu/~crovella/paper-archive/self-sim/sigmetrics-version.pdf">"Self-similarity in World Wide Web Traffic: Evidence and Possible Causes"</a> (PDF). <i>SIGMETRICS 1996</i>. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F233013.233038">10.1145/233013.233038</a>.</li></ul> <h3>Doctoral Dissertation award</h3> <p>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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>2023 <a href="https://isaacg1.github.io/">Isaac Grosof</a></li> <li>2022 <a href="https://ziv.codes/">Ziv Scully</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/">SIGMETRICS</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"SIGMETRICS History Stories". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-08-02. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/history_stories.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/history_stories.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"SIGMETRICS Awards". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-09-05. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"SIGMETRICS Awards". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-09-05. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>SIGMETRICS Conference (2012). "SIGMETRICS 2012 Program". Retrieved 26 April 2012. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/program.php" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/program.php</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"SIGMETRICS Awards". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-09-05. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"SIGMETRICS Awards". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-09-05. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Conviva Co-Founder Zhang Lands 'Test of Time' Award from Global Technology Research Body". Business Wire. 2011-06-17. <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110617005113/en/Conviva-Co-Founder-Zhang-Lands-%E2%80%98Test-Time%E2%80%99-Award" target="_blank">http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110617005113/en/Conviva-Co-Founder-Zhang-Lands-%E2%80%98Test-Time%E2%80%99-Award</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"SIGMETRICS Awards". SIGMETRICS. Retrieved 2011-09-05. <a href="http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.sigmetrics.org/awards.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>