-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP-"Next Generation Networking Middleware", NGNM'05; 6 May 2005, Waterloo Ontario, Canada Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:15:09 +0200 From: Kormentzas Georgios gkorm@aegean.gr To: Kormentzas Georgios gkorm@aegean.gr

[My apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================ *2^nd International WORKSHOP on** ‘Next Generation Networking Middleware’ **(NGNM05)*

* */*in the scope of */‘Networking 2005’, 4^th IFIP – TC6 Networking Conference

(http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/networking2005/ http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004/)

*Date*: May, 6^th 2005

*Venue*: Waterloo Ontario, Canada

* **IMPORTANT DATES*

- Submission of papers: March 20, 2005

- Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2005

- Camera-ready due: April 15, 2005

Scope ======

Networking middleware is the software that integrates applications, the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Towards this end, it provides a set of common services and abstractions that enable applications and end-users to exchange information across heterogeneous distributed networking environments. Next-generation applications will be increasingly developed using middleware. This poses several challenges, such as hiding latency, masking partial failures, providing information assurance and security, legacy integration, dynamic service partitioning and load balancing and end-to-end quality of service specification and enforcement.

As middleware gains widespread adoption, it becomes essential to investigate, and to capture, the basics and the methodologies of middleware technologies. Middleware technologies, such as CORBA, Java, EJB, Jini and Web Services, became increasingly popular for building both embedded and enterprise applications. A new generation of middleware technologies (so-called vertical, or Internet middleware technologies) is beginning to emerge to solve the problems of interoperability and integration across language, operating system and hardware platform boundaries. The realization of an Internet middleware could dramatically reduce the cost of integration both within and among enterprises and dramatically reduce time-to-market for some types of software, as service re-use becomes a realistic possibility.

The underlying technologies for Internet middleware are the familiar industry standard Internet protocols (i.e., IP, TCP, HTTP, SMTP, and others). Support for Web Services standards - like SOAP, WSDL and UDDI - based on XML message formats is layered upon Internet protocols to provide platform-neutral communications between applications. These are then viewed as business services. Before such services can be deployed on a large scale, issues for licensing, usage, billing, versioning and delivery to contracted levels of service performance, need to be addressed.

NGNM04 constituted a forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of Internet middleware. Both the requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e., networking, middleware and application level) were presented and analyzed. The special issue on “Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks” of Computer Communications journal complemented the success of NGNM04. NGNM05 will focus on the identification of composite business services running on an Internet middleware platform that allows enterprises/networking actors to publish the services they provide, use services available globally in a secure manner as components of a generic middleware service, automatically compile the service description into an executable process, to deploy and monitor the execution of such composite processes, etc.The middleware platform will contain re-configuration and self-repairing features to enable a composite business service to adapt itself to changes caused by insertion or withdrawal of services, changes in network conditions and changes in user requirements.

Relevant topics ----------------

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished works as well as works on progress in the following, but not limited to, topic areas:

Standards and APIs

Formal methods and tools for middleware systems

Middleware for Web services and Web service composition

Platforms for cluster, grid and peer-to-peer computing

Benchmarking and comparison of middleware platforms

Event-based, publish/subscribe and message-oriented middleware

Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing

Reconfigurable, adaptable, autonomic and reflective middleware

Programmable, active and adaptive networks

Programmable, mobile and intelligent agents

"Plug-and-Play" Components-Based management

Emerging information models and frameworks

Interworking between heterogeneous middleware technologies

Software engineering for middleware

Security and performance aspects of middleware

** *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION* ----------------

The workshop welcomes original and review papers from academic and industry contributors dealing with the above or related issues. All submissions will be subjected to review by two reviewers. Papers should be up to 6000 words in English, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. To submit a paper, send an email to Prof. George Kormentzas (gkorm@aegean.gr), containing the title, the authors' names, e-mail and post addresses, phone and fax numbers, identification of the contact author, and attach to the same message your paper in PDF or PostScript format. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords.

All the accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings. Furthermore, as it happened with NGNM04, some selected papers will be extended in order to be considered for publication in a forthcoming special issue of a journal related to the workshop’s goals.

*WORKSHOP CHAIRS *

Nikos Anerousis, IBM, USA

George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece

*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*

Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France

Maria Teresa Andrade, INESC Porto, Portugal

Hamid Asgari, TRT, UK

Eugen Borcoci, Transilvania University, Romania

Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Abdellatif Benjelloun-Toumi, France Telecom, France

David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK

Chuck Kalmanek, ATT, USA

Alexander Keller, IBM, USA

Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Europe, Germany

Alexander Konstantinou, IBM, USA

Nick Koudas, ATT, USA

Michael Kounavis, Intel, USA

Maria Koutsopoulou, University of Athens, Greece

Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK

Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Versailles, France

George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK

Thimios Panagos Voicemate, USA

Evaggelos Pallis, University of Crete, Greece

Dimitris Pendarakis, IBM, USA

Christos Politis, University of Surrey, UK

Prashant Pradhan, IBM, USA

Martin Stiemerling, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany

Noemi Simoni, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France

John Soldatos, AIT, Greece

Gosia Steinder, IBM, USA

Evaggelos Vayias, Intracom, Greece

Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Michael Welzl, University of Innsburg, Austria