<div>*14th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference*</div><div>Beijing, China</div><div>9-13 December 2013</div><div><a href="http://2013.middleware-conference.org/">http://2013.middleware-conference.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-------------------</div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>24 May 2013 - Abstract Submission (HARD DEADLINE)</div><div>31 May 2013 - Paper Submission (HARD DEADLINE)</div><div>16 August 2013 - Notification of Acceptance</div>
<div>6 September 2013 - Camera-ready paper due</div><div>-------------------</div><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div><br></div><div>The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design, implementation, experimentation, deployment, and usage of middleware systems. Middleware is the software that resides between applications and the underlying architecture and platforms, often with an emphasis on networked computing. The goal of middleware is to facilitate the development of applications by providing higher-level abstractions for better programmability, performance, scalability, security, and a variety of essential features. It is a rapidly evolving and growing field.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 14th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research, technology and experimentation in 2013. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of 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, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.</div>
<div><br></div><div>TOPICS</div><div><br></div><div>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):</div>
<div><br></div><div>MIDDLEWARE PLATFORMS and USAGE MODELS:</div><div>- Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms</div><div>- Middleware for data intensive computing, in the enterprise and high performance domains</div>
<div>- Middleware for Internet applications and social networks</div><div>- Middleware for Web services, Web service composition, and SOA</div><div>- Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware</div><div>
- Middleware for high end machines and applications</div><div>- Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous, and mobile computing</div><div>- Middleware for sensor networks and embedded systems</div><div>- Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion</div>
<div>- Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches</div><div>- Middleware solutions for distributed databases</div><div>- Peer-to-peer middleware solutions</div><div>- Middleware for social computing, social software, and crowdsourcing</div>
<div><br></div><div>SYSTEMS ISSUES FOR MIDDLEWARE:</div><div>- Reliability and fault-tolerance</div><div>- Scalability and performance</div><div>- Energy- and power-aware techniques</div><div>- Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling</div>
<div>- Security, Privacy, and Information assurance</div><div>- Storage and file systems</div><div>- Concurrent software execution on heterogeneous infrastructure</div><div>- Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware</div>
<div>- Interactions between middleware and systems</div><div>- Real-time solutions and quality of service</div><div>- Case studies on the evaluation and deployment of middleware: challenges, techniques, and lessons learned</div>
<div><br></div><div>DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND TOOLS:</div><div>- Programming frameworks, parallel programming, and design methodologies for middleware</div><div>- Empirical and deployment studies for middleware solutions</div>
<div>- Debugging, diagnosis and distributed debugging of middleware</div><div>- Understanding middleware and application behavior, as via probabilistic techniques</div><div>- Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation</div>
<div>- Formal methods, verification, and software engineering for middleware</div><div>- Security and privacy</div><div>- Retrospective review of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.</div><div>
<br></div><div>SPECIAL TRACKS</div><div><br></div><div>Please see the conference website and our EasyChair page for details about submission.</div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=middleware2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=middleware2013</a></div>
<div>Tracks 1-3 are published in the conference proceedings, track 4 in companion proceedings.</div><div><br></div><div>RESEARCH PAPERS</div><div>Original research papers are sought on the above topics.</div><div><br></div>
<div>EXPERIMENTATION AND DEPLOYMENT PAPERS</div><div>Also of interest are experience papers describing complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, the comprehensiveness of the approach, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned (including negative results).</div>
<div><br></div><div>BIG-IDEAS PAPERS</div><div>We also 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. A specific submission category will be available within the main conference for these papers. Such papers should clearly indicate their vision; 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>INDUSTRY SHORT PAPERS</div><div>The conference strongly encourages submission of papers by industrial practitioners (with or without academic collaborators) focusing on innovations, approaches or case studies of specific relevance to industrial and commercial practice and concern. These papers (up to 6 pages, ACM style) may be submitted to a special industrial track whose Call for Papers will be issued separately.</div>
<div><br></div><div>OPEN AVAILABILITY OF DATASETS AND CODE</div><div><br></div><div>Middleware 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-------------------</div><div>ORGANIZATION:</div><div>General Chairs:</div><div>Gang Huang, Peking University, China</div><div>Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee Chairs:</div>
<div>David Eyers, University of Otago, NZ</div><div>Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Industry Chairs:</div><div>Angelo Corsaro, PrismTech, UK</div><div>Tiancheng Liu, IBM Research China, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Workshop and Tutorial Chairs:</div><div>Laurent Réveillère, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France</div><div>Hailong Sun, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China</div><div><br></div><div>Demo and Poster Chairs:</div>
<div>Songlin Hu, Institute of Computing of CAS, China</div><div>Zibin Zheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China</div><div><br></div><div>Doctoral Symposium Chairs:</div><div>Anders Andersen, University of Tromsø, Norway</div>
<div>Chang Xu, Nanjing University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsorship Chairs:</div><div>Xiaojun Ye, Tsinghua University, China</div><div>Teng Teng, Kingdee Middleware, China</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs:</div>
<div>Tudor Dumitras, Symantec Research Labs, USA</div><div>Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge, UK</div><div>Wenbo Zhang, Institute of Software of CAS, China</div><div><br></div><div>Local Arrangements Chair</div><div>
Xuanzhe Liu<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peking University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Web Chair</div><div>Ying Zhang<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peking University, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Registration Chair</div><div>Yingfei Xiong<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Peking University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committees</div><div>To be announced</div>
<div>-------------------</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><br></div><div>Tudor A. Dumitras</div><div><a href="http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra" target="_blank">http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra</a></div><div><br></div>