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ABSTRACT

Sigmetrics 2007 was held from June 12--16th in San Diego as part of the Federated Computing Research Conference. This year a Student Workshop was introduced in addition to the main technical program, and it was held on June 12th and 13th. Submissions were solicited in the form of extended abstracts and reviewed by a program committee. This special issue of Performance Evaluation Review presents the 16 abstracts finally chosen for the program. All the authors of accepted abstracts were given a travel grant by Sigmetrics to come and attend the whole conference. The program started on the afternoon of June 12th with a highly educative, informative and entertaining talk by Simon-Peyton Jones of Microsoft Research Cambridge on "How to write a great paper". The next day the student authors presented their research in a poster session that was well attended by the regular conference attendees. Special mention must go to the outgoing Sigmetrics Chair, Albert Greenberg, who spent a considerable amount of time with each and every student presenter and gave valuable feedback to them. After the poster session in the afternoon we had a panel on "Performance Evaluation: An Industry Perspective". The participants were Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research), Arif Merchant (HP Labs), Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google), Shubhabrata Sen (AT&T Research), and Cathy Xia (IBM). The panel was originally scheduled to run for 90 minutes, but it ran almost twice the scheduled time with neither the audience nor the panelists in any mood to cut short the lively discussion.

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