diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7717278..8c825f0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+* 2018.05.20 - added "image classification (simulation)" program.species to differentiate 
+               benchmarking on real image classification vs random values 
+               (needed for some ASPLOS'18 ReQuEST submissions)
+
 * 2018.05.03 - added env (CK_TARGET_PATH) to program to get an access to machine specific files
                (to support ReQuEST AI benchmark submission with Apache AVRO)
 
diff --git a/program.species/.cm/alias-a-image.classification.simulation b/program.species/.cm/alias-a-image.classification.simulation
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78fbad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/program.species/.cm/alias-a-image.classification.simulation
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+f4f75a0a6b65e4cd
diff --git a/program.species/.cm/alias-u-f4f75a0a6b65e4cd b/program.species/.cm/alias-u-f4f75a0a6b65e4cd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1bcf7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/program.species/.cm/alias-u-f4f75a0a6b65e4cd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+image.classification.simulation
diff --git a/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/desc.json b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/desc.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0967ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/desc.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}
diff --git a/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/info.json b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/info.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..40fce32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/info.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "backup_data_uid": "f4f75a0a6b65e4cd",
+  "backup_module_uid": "1702c3e426ca54c5",
+  "backup_module_uoa": "program.species",
+  "control": {
+    "author": "Grigori Fursin",
+    "author_email": "Grigori.Fursin@cTuning.org",
+    "author_webpage": "http://fursin.net",
+    "copyright": "See CK COPYRIGHT.txt for copyright details",
+    "engine": "CK",
+    "iso_datetime": "2018-05-20T13:04:44.015750",
+    "license": "See CK LICENSE.txt for licensing details",
+    "version": [
+      "1",
+      "9",
+      "4",
+      "1"
+    ]
+  },
+  "data_name": "image classification (simulation)"
+}
diff --git a/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/meta.json b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/meta.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0967ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/program.species/image.classification.simulation/.cm/meta.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}