[hpc-announce] CFP: 20th ACM/IFIP International Conference on Middleware 2019 (Deadline Fast Approaching)

[Vinay Setty]

ACM/IFIP Middleware 2019 Conference - Call for Papers
http://2019.middleware-conference.org 
where and when
UC Davis, CA; Dec 9 - 13, 2019

Dates
Abstract Submission         May 10  
Paper Submission            May 17
Author Rebuttal             August 1-5
Notification                August 23
Final Version Due           September 13

The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, tutorials and workshops.

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:
* Cloud and data centers
* Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
* Data-intensive computing (big data) and data analytics
* Stream Processing
* Machine learning
* Mobile and pervasive systems and services
* Internet-of-Things, smart cities
* Fog, Edge computing
* Cyber-physical and Real-time systems
* Energy and power-aware techniques
* Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions
* Networking, network function virtualization, software-defined networking
* Multimedia Systems
* Fault tolerance and Consistency
* Blockchains
* Security and privacy
* Monitoring, resource management and analysis
* Middleware Design principles
* Programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware
* Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches
* Reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.
* Methodologies and tools for design, implementation, verification, and evaluation

Original papers of three types are sought:

* Research Papers: These papers report original research on the above topics, and will be evaluated on significance of the problem, novelty of the solution, advancement beyond prior work, sufficient supporting evidence and clarity of the presentation.
* Experimentation and Deployment Papers: These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and/or 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, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned.
* Big Ideas Papers: These are 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.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Brian Cooper - Google
Monica Lam - Stanford University
Ion Stoica - Berkeley

Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, and appendices, but excluding any number of additional pages for bibliographic references. Note that submissions must be double-blind: authors' names must not appear, and authors must make a good faith attempt to anonymize their submissions. Submitted papers must adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM SIGPLAN style, which can found on the ACM template page. Please note that it is preferable, although not mandatory, to use a 10pt font instead of 9pt one.

The Middleware 2019 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date will be the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library which may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the Middleware conference. Note that the official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Software and Data Artifact Availability for Accepted Papers

The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to be made publicly available as “source materials” in the ACM Digital Library. The materials will be vetted by the Artifact Availability Evaluation process run by a separate committee. This submission is voluntary but encouraged and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Availability Evaluation process successfully and are made available in the ACM Digital Library will receive a badge printed on the papers themselves.

Note to Authors:
By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights:

* to publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor
* to digitize and post your article in the electronic version of  this publication
* to include the article in the ACM Digital Library and any Digital Library related services
* to allow users to make a personal copy of the article for non-commercial, educational or research purposes

However, as a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will refer requests for republication directly to you.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

General Chairs
Mohammad Sadoghi, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Roman Vitenberg, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

Program Chairs
Vana Kalogeraki, ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
Robbert van Renesse, CORNELL UNIVERSITY


Industrial Track Chairs
Dejan Milojicic, HP LABS
Vinod Muthusamy, IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER

Workshop Chairs
David Eyers, UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
Jan Rellermeyer, TU DELFT

Tutorial Chairs
Saurabh Bagchi, PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Khuzaima Daudjee, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Faisal Nawab, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Etienne Riviere, UC LOUVAIN

Test-Of-Time Award Chair
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Sponsor Chairs
Andy Gokhale, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 
Jayaram Kallapalayam Radhakrishnan, IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER

Local Arrangements Chairs
Christopher Nitta, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Dongfang Zhao, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO

Poster And Demo Chairs
Jelle Hellings, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Amy L. Murphy, BRUNO KESSLER FOUNDATION

Proceedings Chair
Kaiwen Zhang, ETS MONTREAL

Publicity Chairs
Vincenzo Massimiliano Gulisano, CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Jia Rao, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
Vinay Setty, UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER

Web And Social Media Chairs
Suyash Gupta, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaei, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

Research Track Program Committee Members:

Alberto Montresor, University of Trento
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Amy Tai, VMware
Andy Gokhale, Vanderbilt University
Boris Koldehofe, Technical University Darmstadt
David Bromberg, University of Rennes, IRISA, INRIA
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
Derek Murray, Google
Diego Lugones, Nokia Bell Labs
Dilma da Silva, Texas A&M University
Eva Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge
Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano
Fred Douglis, Perspecta Labs
Gabriele Mancagli, University of Pisa
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University
Guillaume Pierre, INRIA
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto
Ioana Giurgiu, IBM Research Zurich
Jayaram K. R., IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Kang Chen, Tsinghua University
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID
Lydia Chen, TU Delft
Marko Vukolic, IBM Research Zurich
Marta Patino, Technical University of Madrid
Mema Roussopoulos, University of Athens
Michael Vrable, Google
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University
Paulo Ferreira, University of Lisbon
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London
Peter Triantafillou, University of Warwick
Phillip Stanley-Marbell, University of Cambridge
Rong Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Roy Campbell, UIUC
Roy Friedman, Technion
Samuel Kounev, University of Wurzburg
Sangeetha Seshadri, IBM Research
Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Lyon
Spyros Voulgaris, Athens Univ. of Economy And Business
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Valerie Issarny, INRIA
Wei Tsong Ooi, National University of Singapore
Ymir Vigfusson, Emerson University