Middleware 2013 - 14th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, experimentation, deployment, and usage of middleware systems. Middleware is the software that resides between applications and the underlying architecture and platforms, often with an emphasis on networked computing. The goal of middleware is to facilitate the development of applications by providing higher-level abstractions for better programmability, performance, scalability, security, and a variety of essential features. It is a rapidly evolving and growing field.
Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 14th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research, technology and experimentation in 2013. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of system platforms and architectures for current and future computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.
TOPICS
Original submissions of research papers on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to (please don’t miss the additional SPECIAL TRACKS listed below):
MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS and USAGE MODELS:
Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms
Middleware for data intensive computing, in the enterprise and high performance domains
Middleware for Internet applications and social networks
Middleware for Web services, Web service composition, and SOA
Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
Middleware for high end machines and applications
Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous, and mobile computing
Middleware for sensor networks and embedded systems
Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion
Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
Middleware solutions for distributed databases
Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
Middleware for social computing, social software, and crowdsourcing
SYSTEMS ISSUES FOR MIDDLEWARE:
Reliability and fault-tolerance
Scalability and performance
Energy- and power-aware techniques
Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
Security, Privacy, and Information assurance
Storage and file systems
Concurrent software execution on heterogeneous infrastructure
Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware
Interactions between middleware and systems
Real-time solutions and quality of service
Case studies on the evaluation and deployment of middleware: challenges, techniques, and lessons learned
DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND TOOLS:
Programming frameworks, parallel programming, and design methodologies for middleware
Empirical and deployment studies for middleware solutions
Debugging, diagnosis and distributed debugging of middleware
Understanding middleware and application behavior, as via probabilistic techniques
Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation
Formal methods, verification, and software engineering for middleware
Security and privacy
Retrospective review of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.
SPECIAL TRACKS
Please see the conference website and our EasyChair page for details about submission.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=middle...
Tracks 1-3 are published in the conference proceedings, track 4 in companion proceedings.
RESEARCH PAPERS
Original research papers are sought on the above topics.
EXPERIMENTATION AND DEPLOYMENT PAPERS
Also of interest are experience papers describing complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, the comprehensiveness of the approach, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned (including negative results).
BIG-IDEAS PAPERS
We also encourage "big ideas papers"; that is papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. A specific submission category will be available within the main conference for these papers. Such papers should clearly indicate their vision; why the idea is revolutionary and not evolutionary; what the major questions still to be answered are; and possible avenues of attack for the community to pursue towards the development of the idea.
INDUSTRY SHORT PAPERS
The conference strongly encourages submission of papers by industrial practitioners (with or without academic collaborators) focusing on innovations, approaches or case studies of specific relevance to industrial and commercial practice and concern. These papers (up to 6 pages, ACM style) may be submitted to a special industrial track whose Call for Papers will be issued separately.
OPEN AVAILABILITY OF DATASETS AND CODE
Middleware 2013 authors are encouraged to make their system/library implementations and data sets publicly available for the community's wide benefit as open-source software and their experimental data available as open datasets. This is particularly encouraged for "experimentation and deployment papers". Please discuss your requirements with the conference chairs.