Subject: [P2Prg] CFP: ACM/IFIP Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2007

From: Qi Han <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:47:24 -0700 (PDT)

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

		The 4th Middleware Doctoral Symposium (MDS2007)
in conjunction with the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX
International Middleware Conference 2007
                  supported by BBN Technologies
                        
                  Newport Beach, California, USA
	                November 27, 2007
                http://alamode.mines.edu/~qhan/mds07/
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Following the success of the past symposiums in this
series, MDS2007 aims at 
providing doctoral students with opportunities to
present their work and obtain 
guidance from mentors as well as to provide contact to
other students at a 
similar stage in their careers. The mentors are
experienced researchers from 
either academia or industry.  The goal of the
symposium is to expose students 
to helpful criticism on their current work and
suggestions on possible future 
directions and focus. We believe that a forum like
this will allow doctoral 
students to interact with experts in the middleware
community, hence providing 
an exciting environment in which to inspire
next-generation researchers to 
contribute to the development of middleware
technologies.

Topics of interest to this symposium include, but are
not limited to the following:

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 pervasive/ubiquitous and mobile
computing
    * Middleware for embedded systems and sensor
networks
    * Middleware for multimedia applications
    * Service-oriented architectures
    * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective
middleware approaches

Systems issues:

    * Reliability, fault tolerance, and quality of
service
    * 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 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

Symposium Format
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The symposium is a full-day event followed by an
informal dinner and poster 
session. Each participant is expected to participate
in the symposium for the 
entire day, present at the poster session and attend
the symposium dinner.

The symposium will consist of a series of sessions,
each devoted to the 
presentation of papers belonging to a common domain. 
Each presentation will end
with a mini-panel between the presenter, a mock thesis
committee and the audience,
led by the session chair.  In past years, this format
has been found to lead to 
lively and productive discussions, as well as
constructive feedback on the 
dissertation work.

The symposium will also include a panel consisting of
seasoned middleware 
researchers from both academia and industry, moderated
by one of the organizers. 
The panel will provide general advice on how to do a
great Ph.D. dissertation 
on middleware, and discuss open issues and future
trends in the middleware field.

The symposium will conclude with a poster session
together with the conference 
Poster session. This provides an opportunity for
additional feedback and 
suggestions on the dissertation work, contacts for
further interaction, and 
experience in communicating with other researchers. 

Submission Guidelines
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Doctoral students who are interested in submitting
papers should be advanced 
enough in their studies to have a specific research
proposal and some preliminary
results with enough time remaining to benefit from the
symposium experience.  
This would typically, but not exclusively, be students
who are approximately 
one/two years from thesis completion.

The paper should clearly explain:

    * research problem and its significance
    * related work and its limitations
    * research approach (algorithms, prototypes,
empirical studies, etc.)
    * preliminary research findings
    * plans for future research

Papers must not exceed 6 pages, including abstract,
all figures, all tables, 
and references. Submitted papers should follow the ACM
format for conference 
proceedings. Templates can be found at the following
URL:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Papers should be emailed to <[email-masked]> with
subject line clearly 
identifying "MDS2007 submission". All papers must be
in PDF format.

All submitted papers will be carefully reviewed by the
program committee.
All accepted papers will be published in the
Middleware 2007 conference
companion CD and the ACM's Digital Library.

Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline..................August 3,
2007
Notification of acceptance ................September
22, 2007
Camera-ready papers due....................October 1,
2007
Symposium..................................November
27, 2007

Symposium Chair
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Qi Han..........................Colorado School of
Mines, USA

Technical Program Committee
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Rajkumar Buyya..................University of
Melbourne, Australia
Geoff Coulson...................Lancaster University,
UK
Yi Cui..........................Vanderbilt University,
USA
Frank Eliassen..................University of Oslo,
Norway
Alessandro Garcia...............Lancaster University,
UK
Xiaohui Gu......................IBM T.J.Watson
Research Center, USA
Tian He.........................University of
Minnesota, USA
Michi Henning...................Triodia Technologies,
Australia
Hans Arno Jacobsen..............University of Toronto,
Canada
Fabio Kon.......................IME/USP, Brazil
Doug Lea........................SUNY Oswego, USA
Peter Pietzuch..................Imperial College
London, UK
Maarten van Steen...............Vrije Universiteit,
The Netherlands
Stefan Tai......................IBM T.J.Watson
Research Center, USA
Eli Tilevich....................Virginia Tech, USA
Yingwu Zhu......................Seattle University,
USA

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