Registration Opening Hours

On Monday and Tuesday, the registration desk can be found in Salons Georges where the workshops will take place. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the registration desk will be located in College de Valk where the main conference will take place.

Registration opens every day at 8am and will be available throughout the day from:
Monday:8:00 - 19:00(Salons Georges)
Tuesday:8:00 - 20:00(Salons Georges)
Wednesday:8:00 - 18:00(College De Valk)
Thursday:8:00 - 18:00(College De Valk)
Friday:8:00 - 17:00(College De Valk)
Program Details

Monday December 1
08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and registration: Salons Georges, Hogeschoolplein
09:00 - 10:30 Workshops and doctoral symposium
  • MW4SOC 2008: 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing
    Location: Salons Georges - Adriaansalon (level 2)

  • ARM 2008: 7th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
    Location: Salons Georges - Zaal 't Schaakbord (level 2)

  • MidSens 2008: 3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks
    Location: Salons Georges - Salon De Jaartallen (level 2)

  • MGC 2008: 6th International Workshop on Middleware for Grid Computing
    Location: Salons Georges - Salon Fiere Margriet (level 3)

  • Doctoral Symposium: 5th Middleware Doctoral Symposium
    Location: Salons Georges - Zaal Gambrinus (lobby level)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Workshops and doctoral symposium
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch: Salons Georges
14:00 - 15:30 Workshops and doctoral symposium
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Workshops and doctoral symposium
Social Event: Pub Crawl
 
Tuesday December 2
08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and registration: Salons Georges, Hogeschoolplein
09:00 - 10:30 Workshops and tutorials
  • MPAC 2008: 6th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing
    Location: Salons Georges - Zaal Gambrinus (lobby level)

  • MidSec 2008: 1st International Workshop on Middleware Security
    Location: Salons Georges - Salon De Jaartallen (level 2)

  • MobMid 2008: Mobile Middleware: Embracing the Personal Communication Device
    Location: Salons Georges - Zaal 't Schaakbord (level 2)

  • Tutorial 1, Part A: Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practice
    Location: Salons Georges - Adriaansalon (level 2)
  • Tutorial 2: Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe Systems: The Design Space, the Solutions, and their Classification
    Location: Salons Georges - Salon Fiere Margriet (level 3)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Workshops and tutorials
  • MPAC 2008, MidSec 2008, MobMid 2008
  • Tutorial 1, Part A: Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practice
    Location: Salons Georges - Adriaansalon (level 2)
  • Tutorial 2: Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe Systems: The Design Space, the Solutions, and their Classification
    Location: Salons Georges - Salon Fiere Margriet (level 3)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch: Salons Georges
14:00 - 15:30 Workshops and tutorials
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Workshops and tutorials
18:00 - Posters and Welcome Reception (Salons Georges)
 
Wednesday December 3
08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and registration: College 'De Valk', Tiensestraat
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome (Chair: Wouter Joosen, Yolande Berbers)
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote 1: Alfred Spector (Chair: Rick Schantz)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1: System analysis (Chair: Paulo Ferreira)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch: Salons Georges
13:30 - 14:30 Posters & Demos (Chair: Bert Lagaisse)
14:30 - 15:30 Session 2: System management I (Chair: Roy Campbell)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 18:00 Industry track (Chair: Thierry Pollet)
Social Event: Visit Stella Artois Brewery or Leuven Guided Tour
 
Thursday December 4
08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and registration: College 'De Valk', Tiensestraat
09:00 - 10:30 Session 3: Scheduling & virtualized systems (Chair: Peter Honeyman)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 4: System management II (Chair: Gordon Blair)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch: Salons Georges
13:30 - 14:30 Posters & Demos (Chair: Bert Lagaisse)
14:30 - 15:30 Work in Progress (Chair: Jean Bacon)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session 5: Query & Pub-sub systems (Chair: Peter Triantafillou)
17:30 - 18:30 Panel:Virtualization: implications and aspirations for middleware (Chair: Fred Douglis) (slides)
Social Event: Visit Town Hall and Conference Dinner
 
Friday December 5
08:00 - 09:00 Coffee and registration: College 'De Valk', Tiensestraat
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote 2: Willy Zwaenepoel (Chair: Valerie Issarny)
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:30 Session 6: Middleware platforms (Chair: Frank Eliassen)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch: Salons Georges
14:00 - 16:00 Session 7: Object systems (Chair: Renato Cerqueira)
16:00 - 17:00 Closing session (Chair: Wouter Joosen, Yolande Berbers)

Paper Sessions


Session 1: System analysis (Chair: Paulo Ferreira):
Diagnosing Distributed Systems with Self-Propelled Instrumentation
Alexander V. Mirgorodskiy (VMware, Inc., USA)
Barton P. Miller (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Performance Comparison of PHP and JSP as Server-Side Scripting Languages
Scott Trent (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Michiaki Tatsubori (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Toyotaro Suzumura (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Akihiko Tozawa (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)
Tamiya Onodera (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan)

Debugging and Testing Middleware with Aspect-based Control-flow and Causal Patterns
Luis Daniel Benavides Navarro (Ecole des Mines de Nantes; LINA; INRIA, France)
Rémi Douence (Ecole des Mines de Nantes; LINA; INRIA, France)
Mario Südholt (Ecole des Mines de Nantes; LINA; INRIA, France)

Session 2: System management I (Chair: Roy Campbell):
Burstiness in Multi-Tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models
Ningfang Mi (College of William and Mary, USA)
Giuliano Casale (College of William and Mary, USA)
Ludmila Cherkasova (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA)
Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary, USA)

pMapper: Power and Migration Cost Aware Application Placement in Virtualized Systems
Akshat Verma (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Puneet Ahuja (IIT Delhi, India)
Anindya Neogi (IBM India Research Lab, India)

Industry track (Chair: Thierry Pollet):
Service Control Layer (SCL): Enabling Rule--based Control and Enrichment in Next--generation Telecom Service Delivery
Nilanjan Banerjee (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Koustuv Dasgupta (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Lee Longmore (IBM S&D Communications Sector, United Kingdom)
Sougata Mukherjea (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Li Na Ren (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Jia Jia Wen (IBM ChinaResearch Lab, China)
Qi Yu (IBM China Research Lab, China)

A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Providing QoS Monitoring for Web Service Activities
Fariaz Karim (Intel Corporation, USA)

Demystifying Data Deduplication
Nagapramod Mandagere (UMN, United States)
Pin Zhou (IBM Research Almaden, United States)
Mark A Smith (IBM Research Almaden, United States)
Sandeep Uttamchandani (IBM Research Almaden, United States)

Darjeeling, a Java Compatible Virtual Machine
Niels Brouwers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Peter Corke (Autonomous Systems Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Session 3: Scheduling & virtualized systems (Chair: Peter Honeyman):
SODA: An Optimizing Scheduler for Large-Scale Stream-Based Distributed Computer Systems
Joel Wolf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Nikhil Bansal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Kirsten Hildrum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Sujay Parekh (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Deepak Rajan (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Rohit Wagle (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Kun-Lung Wu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Profiling and Modeling Resource Usage of Virtualized Applications
Timothy Wood (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Ludmila Cherkasova (HP Labs, USA)
Kivanc Ozonat (HP Labs, USA)
Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Prism: Providing flexible and fast filesystem cloning service for virtual servers
Xin Zhao (Google Inc., USA)
Atul Prakash (Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, USA)
Kevin Borders (Computer Science and Engineering Division, University of Michigan, USA)

Session 4: System management II (Chair: Gordon Blair):
Enabling Resource Sharing between Transactional and Batch Workloads Using Dynamic Application Placement
David Carrera (Technical University of Catalonia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Malgorzata Steinder (IBM Research, United States)
Ian Whalley (IBM Research, United States)
Jordi Torres (Technical University of Catalonia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Eduard Ayguade (Technical University of Catalonia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Towards End-to-End Quality of Service: Controlling I/O Interference in Shared Storage Server
Gokul Soundararajan (University of Toronto, Canada)
Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada)

Biologically-Inspired Distributed Middleware Management for Stream Processing Systems
Geetika T Lakshmanan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Robert E Strom (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Work in Progress (Chair: Jean Bacon):
iDataGuard: An Interoperable Security Middleware for Untrusted Internet Data Storage
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka (University of California Irvine, USA)
Roberto Gamboni (University of California Irvine, USA)
Sharad Mehrotra (University of California Irvine, USA)
Kent Seamons (Brigham Young University, USA)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California Irvine, USA)

Using Live Distributed Objects for Office Automation
Jong Hoon Ahnn (Cornell University, USA)
Ken Birman (Cornell University, USA)
Krzysztof Ostrowski (Cornell University, USA)
Robbert Van Renesse (Cornell University, USA)

Credential Management in Event-Driven Healthcare
Jatinder Singh (Cambridge University, UK)
David M Eyers (Cambridge University, UK)
Jean Bacon (Cambridge University, UK)

A Hybrid Publish Subscribe Protocol
Mark Linderman (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Norman Ahmed (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
James Metzler (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Jason Bryant (ITT, USA)

On Concurrency Improvements in Enterprise SOA Middleware
Manish Sethi (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Ashok Anand (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Session 5: Query & Pub-sub systems (Chair: Peter Triantafillou):
QoS Allocation Algorithms for Publish-Subscribe Information Space Middleware
Joseph Loyall (BBN Technologies, USA)
Matthew Gillen (BBN Technologies, USA)
Praveen Sharma (BBN Technologies, USA)

Toward Massive Query Optimization in Large-Scale Distributed Stream Systems
Yongluan Zhou (EPFL, Switzerland)
Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Moara: Flexible and Scalable Group-Based Querying System
Steven Y. Ko (UIUC, USA)
Praveen Yalagandula (HP Labs, USA)
Indranil Gupta (UIUC, USA)
Vanish Talwar (HP Labs, USA)
Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs, USA)
Subu Iyer (HP Labs, USA)

Panel (Chair: Fred Douglis)
Virtualization: implications and aspirations for middleware (slides)

Session 6: Middleware platforms (Chair: Frank Eliassen):
Subscription Subsumption Evaluation for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems
Hojjat Jafarpour (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Bijit Hore (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Adaptive Content-based Routing in General Overlay Topologies
Guoli Li (University of Toronto, Canada)
Vinod Muthusamy (University of Toronto, Canada)
Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)

AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices
Jan Rellermeyer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Oriana Riva (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Exo-leasing: Escrow Synchronization for Mobile Clients of Commodity Storage Servers
Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA)
Hong Tian (Brandeis University, USA)
Doug Terry (Microsoft, USA)

Session 7: Object systems (Chair: Renato Cerqueira):
DeXteR - An Extensible Framework for Declarative Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems
Sriram Gopal (Virginia Tech, USA)
Wesley Tansey (Virginia Tech, USA)
Gokulnath C. Kannan (Virginia Tech, USA)
Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech, USA)

Multithreading Strategies for Replicated Objects
Jörg Domaschka (Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University, Germany)
Thomas Bestfleisch (Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University, Germany)
Franz J. Hauck (Institute of Distributed Systems, Ulm University, Germany)
Hans P. Reiser (LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Rüdiger Kapitza (Dept. of Comp. Sciences 4, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

A Component Framework for Java-based Real-time Embedded Systems
Aleš Plšek (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, project ADAM, France)
Frédéric Loiret (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, project ADAM, France)
Philippe Merle (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, project ADAM, France)
Lionel Seinturier (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, project ADAM, France)