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26th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference
https://middleware-conf.github.io/2025/
15th – 19th December 2025
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
The annual
ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for discussing innovations and
recent scientific advances in middleware systems with a focus on the design,
implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms,
and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. The conference
will include a high-quality single-track technical program, invited speakers,
an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders,
poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, tutorials, and
workshops.
Topics of
Interest
The Middleware
conference seeks original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of
topics, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of
interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:
Middleware Applications
- Middleware
for cyber-physical and real-time systems
- Middleware
support for security and privacy
- Middleware
for AI and machine learning systems
- Middleware
for data science pipelines
- Middleware
techniques for internet-of-things and smart cities
- Middleware for multimedia systems
Middleware Systems
- Fault tolerance and consistency
- Distributed and parallel systems
- Distributed ledgers and blockchains
- Event-based,
publish/subscribe, streaming, and peer-to-peer systems
- Serverless
and Function-as-a-Service computing
- Data-intensive
systems (big data)
- Cloud,
fog, edge computing, and data centers
- Networking,
network function virtualization, and software-defined networking
- Mobile and
pervasive systems and services
- Emerging hardware technologies
Middleware Design Principles and Programming Models
- Programming
abstractions and paradigms for middleware
- Reconfigurable,
adaptable, and reflective middleware
- Critical
reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation
- Methodologies
and tools for middleware systems design, implementation, verification, and
evaluation
- Monitoring,
resource management, and analysis
- Virtualization,
auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
- Energy and
power-aware techniques
The conference
seeks original papers of five types:
- Research
Papers: These papers report original research
on the above topics and will be evaluated on the significance of the problem,
the novelty of the solution, advancement beyond prior work, sufficient
supporting evidence, and clarity of the presentation.
- Experimentation
and Deployment Papers: These papers describe
complete systems, platforms, and/or comprehensive experimental evaluations of
alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during
the review of these papers will be more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential
impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the
quality and weight of the lessons learned
- Big
Ideas Papers: These are papers that have the
potential to open 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. We will require senior researchers to present papers in this
track for stronger dissemination and more lively discussion.
- Short
Papers : These papers hold up to the same
standards and evaluation criteria of full research papers, but their content is
presented in a more compact format.
Important
Dates, Deadlines, Conditions
Middleware 2025
will have
two submission deadlines, and we are providing the possibility of
revision decisions for some papers that are deemed promising but somehow not
yet complete. A more detailed explanation of the submission model is provided
below.
First Round:
Fall/Winter Deadlines:
- Full paper
submissions due: December 13, 2024
- Rebuttal: February
26-28, 2025
- Notification
to authors (Accept/Accept with shepherding/Revise for Spring deadline/
Reject): March 7, 2025
- Shepherded
submissions due: March 28, 2025
- Notifications
of decisions of shepherded papers (Accept/Reject): April 11, 2025
- Final
paper files (camera-ready copy) due: April 25, 2025
Second Round:
Spring/Summer Deadlines:
- Full paper
submissions due: May 30, 2025
- Rebuttal: August
18-22, 2025
- Notification
to authors (Accept/Accept with Shepherding/Revise for next calendar
year/Reject): September 5, 2025
- Shepherded
submissions due: September 26, 2025
- Notifications
of decisions of shepherded papers (Accept/Reject): October 10, 2025
- Final
paper files (camera-ready copy) due: October 24, 2025
Resubmission/Revision
Guidelines
The papers
submitted to Middleware receive one of the following decisions depending on the
submission track: (1) accept, (2) conditional accept (shepherding),
(3) minor revision (one-shot revision), (4) major
revision (resubmissions to next cycle), or (5) reject (ineligible
for resubmission up to a year).
Only papers in
the research (including short) and experimentation/deployment track will be
eligible for the minor revision decision. The research and
experimentation/deployment track will be eligible for the major revision
decision. Big ideas papers are not eligible for revision, but they may be
shepherded before acceptance. Please submit papers to https://middleware2025r1.hotcrp.com/ (Round
1) and https://middleware2025r2.hotcrp.com/ (Round
2).
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