MiDiS 2014 - The 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Large Scale Distributed Systems (MiDiS-2014)

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