[Tccc] CFP: Middleware 2013, Dec 9-13, Beijing, China.

Jat Singh js573atcam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 7 17:11:02 EST 2013



 14th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference
Beijing, China
9-13 December, 2013
http://2013.middleware-conference.org/  

IMPORTANT DATES
24 May, 2013 - Abstract Submission (HARD DEADLINE)
31 May, 2013 - Paper Submission (HARD DEADLINE)
16 August, 2013 - Notification of Acceptance
6 September, 2013 - Camera-ready paper due

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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.

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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.

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SPECIAL TRACKS

Please see the conference website and our EasyChair page for details about 
submission. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=middleware2013 
Tracks 1-3 are published in the conference proceedings, track 4 in 
companion proceedings.

(1) RESEARCH PAPERS
Original research papers are sought on the above topics.

(2) 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).

(3) 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.

(4) 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.

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ORGANIZATION

General Chairs:
Gang Huang, Peking University, China
Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA

Program Committee Chairs:
David Eyers, University of Otago, NZ
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Industry Chairs:
Angelo Corsaro, PrismTech, UK
Tiancheng Liu, IBM Research China, China

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:
Laurent Rveillre, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Hailong Sun, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China

Demo and Poster Chairs:
Songlin Hu, Institute of Computing of CAS, China
Zibin Zheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Doctoral Symposium Chairs:
Anders Andersen, University of Troms, Norway
Chang Xu, Nanjing University, China

Sponsorship Chairs:
Xiaojun Ye, Tsinghua University, China
Teng Teng, Kingdee Middleware, China

Publicity Chairs:
Tudor Dumitras, Symantec Research Labs, USA
Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge, UK
Wenbo Zhang, Institute of Software of CAS, China

Local Arrangements Chair:
Xuanzhe Liu, Peking University, China

Web Chair:
Ying Zhang, Peking University, China

Registration Chair:
Yingfei Xiong, Peking University, China
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