-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [ACM Middleware2007] CFP: Announcing ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference Datum: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:22 -0300 Von: Renato Cerqueira rcerq@tecgraf.puc-rio.br An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

************************************************************************ ***** CALL FOR PAPERS

MIDDLEWARE 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (approvals pending)

http://2007.middleware-conference.org/

Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA November 26th - 30th, 2007 ************************************************************************ *****

The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of middleware. Middleware is distributed-systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Its primary role is to functionally bridge the gap between application programs and the lower-level hardware and software infrastructure in order to coordinate how application components are connected and how they interoperate.

Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 8th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2007. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, invited speakers, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.

Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions. Middleware 2007 is not limited to topics discussed in previous Middleware conferences. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the program chairs prior to submission. The proceedings of Middleware 2007 will be published as a Springer-Verlag volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.

Topics ------

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Platforms and Architectures: * Middleware for Web services and Web-service composition * Middleware for cluster and grid computing * Peer-to-peer middleware solutions * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware * Communication protocols and architectures * Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing * Middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks * Service-oriented architectures * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches

Systems issues: * Reliability, fault tolerance, and quality-of-service in general * Scalability of middleware: replication and caching * Systems management, including solutions for autonomic and self- managing middleware * Middleware feedback control solutions for self-regulation * Real-time solutions for middleware platforms * Information assurance and security * Evaluation techniques for middleware solutions * Middleware support for multimedia streaming * Middleware solutions for (large scale) distributed databases

Design principles and tools: * Formal methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating middleware * Model-driven architectures * Software engineering for middleware * Engineering principles and approaches for middleware * Novel development paradigms, APIs, and languages * Existing paradigms revisited: object models, aspect orientation, etc. * On-the-fly management and configuration of middleware

Organization ------------

General Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Program Chairs: Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) Renato Cerqueira (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Workshops Chair: TBA

Doctoral Symposium Chair: TBA

Poster and Demo Chair: Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)

Industry Track Chair: Guruduth Banavar (IBM India Research Lab, India)

Publicity Chair: Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs, USA) Publicity in Europe: Paolo Bellavista (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)

Local Arrangements Chair: Ray Klefstad (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Local Arrangements Committee: Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California at Irvine, USA) Ray Klefstad (University of California at Irvine, USA) Sharad Mehrotra (University of California at Irvine, USA) Vana Kalogeraki (University of California at Irvine, USA) Deborah Nielsen (OCTANE@UCI, USA) Shellie Nazarenus (Calit2, USA)

Program Committee -----------------

Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada) Jean Bacon (Cambridge University, UK) Guruduth Banavar (IBM India Research Lab, India) Alberto Bartoli (University of Trieste, Italy) John Barton (IBM Almadem, USA) Christian Becker (University of Mannheim, Germany) Yolande Berbers (Leuven University, Belgium) Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Jean-Pierre Briot (Paris 6, France) Andrew Campbell (Columbia University, USA) Walfredo Cirne (Google, USA) Clem Cole (USENIX, USA) Paolo Costa (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Geoff Coulson (Lancaster University, UK) Jan de Meer (SmartSpaceLab, Germany) Fred Douglis (IBM Watson, USA) Naranker Dulay (Imperial College, UK) Markus Endler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) Pascal Felber (University of Neufchatel, Switzerland) Paulo Ferreira (INESC ID / Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal) Joni Fraga (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France) Arno Jacobsen (Toronto University, Canada) Shanika Karunasekera (University of Melbourne, Australia) Bettina Kemme (McGill University, Canada) Fabio Kon (IME/USP, Brazil) Doug Lea (Oswego State University, USA) Rodger Lea (University of British Columbia, Canada) Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Elie Najm (ENST, France) Priya Narasimhan (CMU, USA) Tamer Ozsu (University of Waterloo, Canada) Christian Perez (IRISA, France) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Alexander Reinefeld (ZIB, Germany) Luis Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) Rick Schantz (BBN Technologies, USA) Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France) Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow, UK) Stefan Tai (IBM Watson, USA) Peter Triantafillou (University of Patras, Greece) Steve Vinoski (IONA, USA) Gregor von Laszewski (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Important dates ---------------

Paper registration: April 9 Paper submission: April 16 Notification of acceptance: July 16 Camera-ready copies: August 31st

Submission guidelines ---------------------

Papers must not exceed 20 pages, including abstract, all figures, all tables, and references. Papers should include a short abstract and up to 6 keywords. Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style (please check the Information for Authors page at Springer at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style and formatting guidelines).

Submitted papers may not be submitted for conference publication, journal publication, or be under review for any other conference or journal. For any questions regarding this matter, please contact the program chairs.

Submissions will be handled via the conference web page at http://2007.middleware-conference.org/Submission.htm You will be requested to upload the file of your paper (PDF format) to the conference server (please avoid bitmaps!). Please also fill in the appropriate information in the online form.

Further information -------------------

For further information and submission instructions, please visit http://2007.middleware-conference.org/ or contact the Program Chairs.

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