Message from the program chair

It is my pleasure to present to you the program of the 2009 fifth annual IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization. We received 56 papers, of which we accepted 23 to the symposium. Each paper received on average 3.5 reviews. The program committee worked tirelessly to do these reviews, largely by themselves, or with the help of colleagues in a few rare cases. The program committee then met in Austin, TX in person and via teleconference in June to do the hard work of deciding which papers made the cut. This was no easy process, and I am indebted to many on the program committee for their hard work. In particular, I am quite grateful to those who helped shepherd papers that needed a few light revisions. These include of IBM Research, of Georgia Tech, Leslie Barnes of AMD and David Kaeli of Northeastern University.