MiDiS 2013 - The 2-nd International Workshop on Middleware for Large Scale Distributed Systems (MiDiS-2013)

The third edition of the International Workshop on the Middleware of Large Scale Distributed Systems, MiDiS-2013 is dedicated to the dissemination and evaluation of original contributions to the architectures, methods, techniques, protocols, components, services and tools related to the Middleware of Large Scale Distributed Systems (LSDS) with special emphasis on large P2P, Cloud, Grid, and Web-based systems.
Middleware solutions for LSDS aim to respond to high requirements of large scale distributed applications related to performance, flexibility, extensibility, portability, availability, reliability, safety, security, trust, and scalability, in the context of high number of users, and large geographic distribution of heterogeneous hardware and software resources. The solutions used in the design, implementation, and deployment of systems with such capabilities are based on monitoring, scheduling, optimization, sharing, balancing, discovery, and synchronization methods and techniques that are continuously improved. New services and functionality are added to the middleware to ease the development of new and highly demanding applications with low cost and high performance. New architectures and policies are designed to incorporate solutions for the management of data, resources, tasks, and applications, ensure fault tolerance, accounting, service on demand, and other functions required by user communities to operate effectively a shared services environment. All these topics challenge today researchers, due to the strong dynamic behavior of the user communities and of resource collections they use.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide an open forum for researchers from academia and industry to present, discuss, and exchange ideas, results, and expertise in the area of middleware solution for large scale distributed systems. The workshop also aims at stimulating synergies between Grid, P2P, Cloud, and Web-based developer communities.
The focus of this workshop is on new architectures, methods, techniques, protocols, components, services and tools related to the Middleware of Large Scale Distributed Systems (LSDS). These may include, but are not limited to the following topics:
Architectural solutions for Large Scale Distributed Systems (Grid, Cloud, P2P, Web-based)
Models and techniques for data intensive computing
Protocols for High performance communication in LSDS
Monitoring and Control
Distributed resource management in Middleware for LSDS
Scheduling and meta-scheduling
Mapping, scheduling and synchronization
Workflow management
Distributed load balancing
Management of high data volumes
Data storage and retrieval
Data summarization and aggregation
Fault-tolerance and replication
Optimization techniques for distributed systems
Performance evaluation and prediction
Self-organized distributed systems
Confidentiality, integrity, trust, anonymity in LSDS
Intrusion detection and prevention, spam detection
LSDS development tools
LSDS environments and platforms
Organizing Comitee
Workshop Co-Chairs
Valentin Cristea
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
valentin.cristea at cs.pub.ro
Catalin Leordeanu
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
catalin.leordeanu at cs.pub.ro
Program Committee Members
Mugurel Andreica, University Politehnica of Bucharest
Otto Anshus, University of Tromso, Norway
Elena Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology
Nik Bessis, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Vitaly Chipounov, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Alexandru Costan, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Vladimir Cretu, University Politehnica of Timisoara, Romania
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Joanna Kolodziej, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Gabriel Neagu, ICI, Bucharest, Romania
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Maartin van Steen, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Corina Stratan, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain