<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please note the following update:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1) Deadline extended: <b><span style="color:red">May 10th</span></b> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">2) ISCC PEDISWESA workshop will be held online and the Accepted Papers will be published in IEEExplore if the authors provide a presentation and/or a video. The registration fees will be reduced as follows:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- <span style="color:black">Workshop Author Member Fee: </span><b><span style="color:red">100 Euros</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- <span style="color:black">Workshop Authors Non-Member Fee: </span><b><span style="color:red">125 Euros</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,65,66)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,65,66)">12^th IEEE Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Communications in Distributed Systems and Web-based Service Architectures PEDISWESA</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue">http://www.xanalytics.ca/pediswesa2020/index.html</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,65,66)">in conjunction with IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2020)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:blue">https://conferences.imt-atlantique.fr/iscc2020/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,65,66);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.15pt">JULY 7TH - 10TH, 2020 – RENNES, FRANCE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(65,65,66);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.15pt"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(88,89,91)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;text-align:justify;line-height:16.2pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Performance evaluation is still a topic that attains a lot of attention in both distributed and mobile systems as well as Web based services architectures. Due to the recent advances in internet-based applications as well as distributed and mobile communication systems, we are witnessing a variety of new technologies. However, these systems are becoming very large and complex at the same time. Several challenges remain to be resolved before these systems become a commodity. Guaranteeing QoS and provisioning of web-based systems as well as distributed and mobile systems and evaluating their communication performance represent among the challenging problem in the design of these systems. Quantitative analysis can be very difficult and may be intractable because of the state space explosion. New methods and tools have recently emerged for these kinds of complex systems, such as Stochastic Automata Networks, Stochastic bounds, PEPA, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;line-height:16.2pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This workshop focuses on the performance evaluation of both distributed and mobile systems, as well as Web based services architectures using both analytical methods and simulation studies. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to QoS and communication performance evaluation of these systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:15pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,48,69)">Topics of interest include</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,48,69)"> (but are not limited to):</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Routing optimization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Quantitative analysis</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Stochastic comparisons</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bandwidth management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Web services composition</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Measurement, analysis, modeling</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">QoS for Web services architectures</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Simulation and measurements techniques</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tools and software for performance evaluation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Network Protocols design for Web service devices</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Performance evaluation of distributed and web-based systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Communication performance evaluation of distributed and mobile systems</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Performance of Blockchain</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Performance evaluation of Vehicular networks</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Connected and Autonomous Vehicles</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.1333px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Committee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,48,69)">General Chair:</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,48,69)">Steering Committee:</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lynda Mokdad, University Paris XII, France</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Paris, France</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:15pt 0in 7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(50,48,69)">Technical Program Co-Chairs:</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150)"></span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Ottawa, Canada</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, KSA</span><b><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></b></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.5467px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:16.96px">Important Dates</span></b></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paper submission deadline: <b><span style="color:red">May 10th, 2020</span></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Notification of paper acceptance: May 20th, 2020</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission of camera-ready papers:  May 30th, 2020</span></li></ul></div>