-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Akram Hakiri akram.hakiri@GMAIL.COM Gesendet: 15. November 2024 11:17:25 MEZ An: itc@COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [InternetTC] ACM Middleware 2025 - Call for Research Papers

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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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