[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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