-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Middleware Performance (MP 2004) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:48:08 -0500 (EST) From: Teresa A Dahlberg tdahlber@uncc.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: Diana Szentivanyi diasz@ida.liu.se

International Workshop on Middleware Performance (MP 2004)

   April, 2004 in Phoenix, Arizona

Sattelite workshop of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC http://www.ipccc.org 2004)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Recent years have seen the trend from closed applications designed in isolation to open systems in which network-wide resources are not a priori fixed. Components of such applications are developed independently and run in environments that vary over time, hence requiring adaptability.

Variants of middleware, based on existing technologies such as CORBA, COM, EJB, Jini, Java RMI, etc. should provide adaptability either by built-in mechanisms, or by mechanisms to support evolving applications. One example of adaptability is transparent recovery from failures, implemented by fault tolerance mechanisms. Other features might include: adaptation to variations in load and resource demands, defence against external threats and intrusions, etc.

Ensuring adherence to performance requirements in such open platforms on an application-to-application basis demands characterization of metrics, measurement techniques, evaluation methods and benchmarks.

 Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Performance for reflective middleware
• Performance for mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Metrics and evaluation strategies
• Adaptation for intrusion tolerance
• Adaptation to faults
• Data consistency and performance
• Real-time and power-aware middleware
• Programming for adaptation, e.g. Aspects
• Performance studies of communication primitives, e.g.

point-to-point, publish/subscribe

• QoS-aware application support

• Case studies and trade-off assessments

  Papers

Original work not published and not subject to review elsewhere is solicited. Papers should be of length 5-8 pages in standard IEEE format, including abstract, 3-5 keywords, and corresponding author's e-mail.

Please submit your papers electronically in PDF(or PS) format, to the following address: diasz@ida.liu.se.

 Important dates

Paper submission deadline: December 6, 2003 Notification of acceptance: December 29, 2003 Camera-ready copy due: January 26, 2004

Program co-chairs:

Diana Szentiv?nyi http://www.ida.liu.se/~diasz Link?ping University, Sweden

Simin Nadjm-Tehrani http://www.ida.liu.se/~snt Link?ping University, Sweden

Program committee:

David Bakken, Washington State University, US Geoffrey Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Pascal Felber, Institute Eurecom, France Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, US Paddy Nixon, University of Strathclyde, UK Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Franklin Webber, BBN Technologies, US

The address of the workshop webpage is

http://www.ida.liu.se/~diasz/IPCCC04Workshop

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