-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP]: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference 2010 Datum: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:55:11 -0500 Von: Ningfang Mi ningfang@gmail.com An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

CFP: Middleware 2010 (Submission Due: May 23, 2010) (Please accept our apologies for cross posting) ======================== Middleware 2010 ACM/IFIP/USENIX 11th International Middleware Conference November 29 - December 3, 2010, Bangalore, India http://2010.middleware-conference.org/index.html ======================== CALL FOR PAPERS

The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, deployment, and usage of middleware. Middleware is a distributed-systems software that resides between a rich variety of applications on the one hand, and the underlying architecture on the other hand which may consist of the OS, hardware, and network stacks or even databases, storage and different cloud services. The goals of middleware include providing abstractions, programmability, performance, scalability, security, and a variety of essential features. This is a rapidly evolving and growing field.

Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 11th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2010. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed 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, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.

Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: Middleware platforms: * Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms * Middleware for traditional clusters and Grid computing * Middleware for data-intensive computing * Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous and mobile computing * Middleware for sensor and embedded systems * Middleware for Web services and Web-service composition * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware * Middleware for system management and monitoring * Middleware for next generation telecommunication platforms * Internet-based communication protocols and data transfer middleware * Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion * Middleware supporting service-oriented architectures * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches * Semantic middleware * Middleware solutions for distributed databases * Peer-to-peer middleware solutions * Novel middleware solutions for industry frameworks Systems issues for Middleware: * Reliability and fault-tolerance * Scalability and performance * Energy- and power-aware techniques * Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling * Security and Information assurance * Storage and file systems * Parallelized execution and techniques * Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware * Real-time solutions and quality of service * Evaluation and deployment: challenges, techniques and lessons Design principles and tools: * Programming frameworks, parallel programming and design methodologies for middleware * Empirical and deployment studies for middleware solutions * Debugging and distributed debugging of middleware * Probabilistic Techniques and approaches for middleware * Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation * Formal methods, verification and software engineering for middleware * Old Wine: Revisiting classical middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc. ========================= Industry Papers The conference strongly encourages submission of industry-focused papers and use case studies; full papers should be submitted to the main program, where they will be reviewed using appropriate criteria (e.g. emphasizing experience and system evolution), and accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings. Additionally, short industry-focused papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS style) may be submitted to a special industrial track; accepted short papers will be presented at the conference and published in the ACM Digital Library. Note that submissions to the main program may indicate a willingness to be referred to the Industrial Track if a paper is not accepted to the main program.

Big Ideas Papers This year, we particularly 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. Authors should indicate in the introduction that their paper is a vision of a big idea, rather than more mature work. Such papers should clearly indicate 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. ========================= Submission Guidelines Submissions will be handled via the conference web page at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/Middleware2010 ========================= Important Dates May 16, 2010: Abstract Submission May 23, 2010 (11:59pm PST): Paper Submission August 5, 2010: Notification of acceptance August 20, 2010: Camera ready due November 29 - December 3, 2010: Conference ========================= There will be a separate call for workshops, for tutorials, and for the Doctoral Symposium. Please check the website for dates. ========================= Program Committee Chairs Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge

Program Committee Karl Aberer, EPFL, Swtzerland Katerina Argyraki, EPFL, Switzerland Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany Yolande Berbers, KUL-DistriNet, Belgium Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Gordon Blair, University of Lancaster, UK Raj Kumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Renato Cerqueira, PUC-Rio, Brazil Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Brian F. Cooper, Yahoo! Research, USA Geoff Coulson, University of Lancaster, UK Anwitaman Datta, NTU, Singapore Jan De Meer, SmartSpaceLab, Germany Fred Douglis, Data Domain, USA Frank Eliasson, University of Oslo, Norway Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brazil Paulo Ferreira, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Sathish Gopalakrishnan, University of British Columbia, Canada Paul Grace, University of Lancaster, UK Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Steven Hand, University of Cambridge, UK Gang Huang, Peking University, China Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada Wouter Joosen KUL-DistriNet, Belgium Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA Ramses Morales, Xerox, USA David O'Hallaron, CMU/Intel, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College, UK Oriana Riva, ETH, Switzerland Antony Rowstron, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UCI, USA Akshat Verma, IBM Research, India Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China Ben Zhao, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research, India