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The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations
and recent advances in the design, construction and uses 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 9th International
Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and
technology in 2008. 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, an industrial
track, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops.
Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify
new research directions. 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
- Middleware for next generation telecommunication platforms
- Semantic middleware
- Service-oriented architectures
- Standard middleware architectures
- Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
Systems issues:
- Advanced middleware support for high confidence dynamic integrated systems
- 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
The conference also strongly encourages submission of industry-focused and use
case studies; full papers should be submitted to the main program, where they
will be reviewed using appropriate criteria (e.g. emphasizing experience and
system evolution), and accepted papers will be published in the main conference
proceedings. Additionally, short industry-focused papers may be submitted to a
special industrial track; accepted short papers will be presented at the
conference and published in the ACM Digital Library. Details on the industrial
track will be available shortly. Note that submissions to the main program may
indicate a willingness to be referred to the industrial track if a paper is not
accepted to the main program.
