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</center> </h1><p><FONT COLOR="red" size="3"><b> <it> Important dates:</it> </b> </big> </font> </p><ul><li><strong>Submission deadline of regular papers</strong>: <FONT COLOR="red"> <b> <it> extended to </it> </b> </font> 15 September, 2013</li><li><strong>Submission deadline of tool papers</strong>: 30 September, 2013</li><li><strong>Submission deadline of tutorials</strong>: <FONT COLOR="red"> <b> <it> extended to </it> </b> </font> 23 October, 2013</li><li><strong>Notification</strong>: 30 October, 2013</li><li><strong>Camera-ready deadline</strong>: 14 November, 2013</li><li><strong>Conference</strong>: 10-12 December, 2013</li></ul><h1>Scope</h1><p><strong>ValueTools 2013</strong> is on methodologies and practices in modeling, performance evaluation and optimization of complex systems, gathering researchers from different communities, such as Computer Science, Networks and Telecommunications, Operations Research, Optimization, Control Theory and Manufacturing. </p><p>ValueTools 2013 solicits previously unpublished contributions on new performance evaluation methodologies and new tools. Three types of contributions are called for: <strong>regular papers, tool papers</strong>, and <strong>tutorials</strong>. Submission information for all three types can be found <a href="show/initial-submission.html">here</a>. </p><p>All accepted contributions will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be submitted to the major indexing services (like Scopus). Extended version of selected regular papers will be published in a <strong>special issue of the Performance Evaluation Journal</strong>. </p><h1>Topics:</h1><ul><li>Discrete event systems</li><li>Stochastic models</li><li>Simulation techniques</li><li>Game theory</li><li>Queues and network of queues</li><li>Mean field techniques</li><li>Large scale performance analysis</li><li>Control theory</li><li>Machine learning and neural networks</li><li>Performance optimization</li><li>Measurements and benchmarking</li><li>Modeling software tools</li><li>Software Systems</li></ul><h1>Application Areas:</h1><ul><li>Communication and computer networks</li><li>Distributed systems</li><li>Interdisciplinary methodologies (economic, biological and social models)</li><li>Manufacturing systems and supply chains</li><li>Resource allocation</li><li>Road traffic and transportation systems</li><li>Secure Networks</li><li>Smart grids</li></ul> </div> </article> </div> </td> <td id="sidebar"> <div 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