The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) provides a forum for the integration of theory and practice in the field of performance engineering. ICPE is an annual joint meeting that has grown out of the ACM Workshop on Software Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Engineering Workshop (SIPEW). It brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share ideas, discuss challenges, and present results of both work-in-progress and state-of-the-art research on performance engineering of software and systems. ICPE 2016 will take place from March 12 to March 16, 2016 in Delft, the Netherlands. SPEC meetings will take place from March 15 to March 18, 2016, co-located with ICPE 2016.