Middleware Conference 2013 - The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference 2013

The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference 2013

Middleware Conference 2013

The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference 2013 (Middleware Conference 2013), a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, experimentation, deployment, and usage of middleware systems, is organzied by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is to be staged at The Lakeview Hotel during Dec.9-13, 2013. 

The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference 2013 (Middleware Conference 2013) authors are encouraged to make their system/library implementations and data sets publicly available for the community's wide benefit as open-source software and their experimental data available as open datasets. This is particularly encouraged for "experimentation and deployment papers". Please discuss your requirements with the conference chairs.

TOPICS

Original submissions of research papers on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to (please don’t miss the additional SPECIAL TRACKS listed below):

• MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS and USAGE MODELS:
  • Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms
  • Middleware for data intensive computing, in the enterprise and high performance domains
  • Middleware for Internet applications and social networks
  • Middleware for Web services, Web service composition, and SOA
  • Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
  • Middleware for high end machines and applications
  • Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous, and mobile computing
  • Middleware for sensor networks and embedded systems
  • Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion
  • Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
  • Middleware solutions for distributed databases
  • Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
  • Middleware for social computing, social software, and crowdsourcing


• SYSTEMS ISSUES FOR MIDDLEWARE:
  • Reliability and fault-tolerance
  • Scalability and performance
  • Energy- and power-aware techniques
  • Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
  • Security, Privacy, and Information assurance
  • Storage and file systems
  • Concurrent software execution on heterogeneous infrastructure
  • Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware
  • Interactions between middleware and systems
  • Real-time solutions and quality of service
  • Case studies on the evaluation and deployment of middleware: challenges, techniques, and lessons learned


• DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND TOOLS:
  • Programming frameworks, parallel programming, and design methodologies for middleware
  • Empirical and deployment studies for middleware solutions
  • Debugging, diagnosis and distributed debugging of middleware
  • Understanding middleware and application behavior, as via probabilistic techniques
  • Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation
  • Formal methods, verification, and software engineering for middleware
  • Security and privacy
  • Retrospective review of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.