Subject: [Mip4] [ACM Middleware2007] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference (Submission Deadline Apr 16) - FLYER attached

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:46:17 -0500

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                                MIDDLEWARE 2007
            ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference
                              (approvals pending)

                     http://2007.middleware-conference.org/

                 Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA
                           November 26th - 30th, 2007
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The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important
innovations and recent advances in the design and construction 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 8th
International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for  
middleware
research and technology in 2007. 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, poster and demo presentations, a doctoral symposium, and  
workshops.

Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly ones that
identify new research directions. Middleware 2007 is not limited to topics
discussed in previous Middleware conferences. Authors concerned about the
appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the  
program
chairs prior to submission. The proceedings of Middleware 2007 will be
published as a Springer-Verlag volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer  
Science
Series.

Topics
------

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
  * Service-oriented architectures
  * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches

Systems issues:
  * 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

Organization
------------

General Chair:
    Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Program Chairs:
    Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
    Renato Cerqueira (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Workshops Chairs:
    Radha Nandkumar (NCSA, USA)
    Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)

Doctoral Symposium Chair:
    Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)

Work in Progress Chair:
    Edward Curry (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland)

Poster and Demo Chair:
    Valerie Issarny (INRIA, France)

Industry Track Chair:
    Guruduth Banavar (IBM India Research Lab, India)

Publicity Chair:
    Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs, USA)
  Publicity in Europe:
    Paolo Bellavista (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)

Local Arrangements Chair:
    Ray Klefstad (University of California at Irvine, USA)

Local Arrangements Committee:
    Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California at Irvine, USA)
    Ray Klefstad (University of California at Irvine, USA)
    Sharad Mehrotra (University of California at Irvine, USA)
    Vana Kalogeraki (University of California at Irvine, USA)
    Deborah Nielsen (OCTANE@UCI, USA)
    Shellie Nazarenus (Calit2, USA)

Program Committee
-----------------

Gustavo Alonso         (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Cristiana Amza         (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jean Bacon             (University of Cambridge, UK)
Guruduth Banavar       (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Alberto Bartoli        (University of Trieste, Italy)
John Barton            (IBM Almadem, USA)
Christian Becker       (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Yolande Berbers        (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Gordon Blair           (Lancaster University, UK)
Jean-Pierre Briot      (CNRS & University Paris 6, France)
Andrew Campbell        (Columbia University, USA)
Walfredo Cirne         (Google, USA)
Clem Cole              (USENIX, USA)
Paolo Costa            (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Geoff Coulson          (Lancaster University, UK)
Jan de Meer            (SmartSpaceLab, Germany)
Fred Douglis           (IBM Watson, USA)
Naranker Dulay         (Imperial College, UK)
Markus Endler          (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Pascal Felber          (University of Neufchatel, Switzerland)
Paulo Ferreira         (INESC ID / Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal)
Joni Fraga             (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Indranil Gupta         (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Valerie Issarny        (INRIA, France)
Hans-Arno Jacobsen     (University of Toronto, Canada)
Shanika Karunasekera   (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Bettina Kemme          (McGill University, Canada)
Fabio Kon              (IME/USP, Brazil)
Doug Lea               (Oswego State University, USA)
Rodger Lea             (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Satoshi Matsuoka       (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Elie Najm              (ENST, France)
Priya Narasimhan       (CMU, USA)
Tamer Ozsu             (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Christian Perez        (INRIA/IRISA, France)
Gian Pietro Picco      (University of Trento, Italy)
Alexander Reinefeld    (ZIB, Germany)
Luis Rodrigues         (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Antony Rowstron        (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Rick Schantz           (BBN Technologies, USA)
Douglas C. Schmidt     (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Jean-Bernard Stefani   (INRIA, France)
Joe Sventek            (University of Glasgow, UK)
Stefan Tai             (IBM Watson, USA)
Peter Triantafillou    (University of Patras, Greece)
Gregor von Laszewski   (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

Important dates
---------------

Paper registration	      : April 9
Conference Paper submission   : April 16
Notification of acceptance    : July 16
Camera-ready copies	      : August 31st
Workshop Proposals due	      : April 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance    : May 1, 2007
Doctoral Symposium submission : Aug 3, 2007
Notification of acceptance    : Sep 22, 2007

Submission guidelines
---------------------

Papers must not exceed 20 pages, including abstract, all figures, all  
tables,
and references. Papers should include a short abstract and up to 6  
keywords.
Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer
LNCS Style (please check the Information for Authors page at Springer at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style and formatting
guidelines).

Submitted papers may not be submitted for conference publication, journal
publication, or be under review for any other conference or journal. For  
any
questions regarding this matter, please contact the program chairs.

Submissions will be handled via the conference web page at
       http://2007.middleware-conference.org/Submission.htm
You will be requested to upload the file of your paper (PDF format) to the
conference server (please avoid bitmaps!). Please also fill in the  
appropriate
information in the online form.

Further information
-------------------

For further information and submission instructions, please visit
  http://2007.middleware-conference.org/
or contact the Program Chairs.

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