MiDiS 2010 - First International Workshop on the Middleware of Large Scale Distributed Systems (MiDiS 2010)

The first edition of the First International Workshop on the Middleware of Large Scale Distributed Systems, MiDiS-2010 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.

Call for Papers [top]

Formats: PDF, DOC.

You are welcome to send this CFP to your friends and colleagues working in the field.

Workshop Topics [top]

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 [top]

Workshop Co-Chairs

Valentin Cristea
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania,
valentin.cristea at cs.pub.ro

Fatos Xhafa
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
fatos at lsi.upc.edu

Program Committee Members

TBA

Important Dates [top]

Submission Deadline: May 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 31, 2010
Author Registration: July 30, 2010
Final Manuscript: September 15, 2010
Conference Dates: November 4-6, 2010