[hpc-announce] Middleware 2019 Call for doctoral Symposium, Tutorials, Industry Papers, Demos and Posters

[Vinay Setty]

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     MIDDLEWARE 2019

     9-13 December 2019

     UC DAVIS, CA



     http://2019.middleware-conference.org



     Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers

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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.



Middleware 2019 will be held at UC Davis, California from 9 to 13 
December 2019.



The conference will include a doctoral symposium, to which all PhD students

working on the topics of the Middleware conference are invited to apply. The

doctoral symposium will be held prior to the main conference.



The Middleware doctoral symposium is a welcoming and supportive environment

allowing all PhD students to receive feedback, discuss their work, and 
prepare

to get the most out of their participation to the main conference.



All participating students will be offered the opportunity to engage 
with their

peers, as well as with senior academic and industrial members of the 
Middleware

community. This will include the feedback of panel members on the day of the

symposium and individual meetings with a personal mentor during the 
conference.



The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. 
Applicants

will be divided into two groups:



- Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on

   crafting their research proposal and completing background research.

- Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and

   thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its 
impact.



All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to

submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be 
peer-reviewed

by the symposium’s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting

papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the

originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper.

Position papers should fit within the topics of the Middleware 2019 main

conference Call for Papers.



Position papers are limited to 2 pages (for students in the planner 
category)

or 4 pages (for students in the Finishers category). Submissions must 
use the

same format as for research papers (ACM SIGPLAN 9pt or 10pt). The suggested

content is detailed on the Middleware 2019 website:



http://2019.middleware-conference.org/doctoral.html



Contributions to the Middleware 2019 PhD Workshop will appear in a 
proceedings

that supplements the main conference proceedings.



Accepted position paper will lead to a presentation during the doctoral

symposium, which may require the preparation of a poster for the 
symposium and

for the main conference.



Doctoral students that submit their work to this symposium are strongly

encouraged to apply for student travel grants to attend Middleware 2019.

Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority 
for the

travel grants.



Paper submission site: https://middleware19ds.hotcrp.com/



Important dates



- Position papers submission: September 27, 2019

- Notification: October 11, 2019

- Camera Ready: October 18, 2019



Doctoral Symposium chairs



- Faisal Nawab, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

- Etienne Riviere, UCLouvain, Belgium



Contact the doctoral symposium chairs at middleware19dw at uclouvain.be

Call for Tutorials, Industry papers, Posters and Demos
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Call for Tutorial Proposals
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  Middleware is an umbrella term for the diverse software that resides 
between applications and underlying hardware and systems software. It 
facilitates the development of applications by providing higher-level 
abstractions for better programmability, performance, scalability, and 
security. It is an important and rapidly evolving field with many open 
problems and challenges. For more information and submission guidelines 
see http://2019.middleware-conference.org/tutorial.html

Important Dates for Tutorials Track:
Tutorial Proposal Deadline    June 15, 2019
Tutorial Proposal Acceptance Notification    July 15, 2019


Call for Industry papers
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The Industrial Track of the Middleware 2019 Conference solicits 6-page 
papers for presentation during the main conference (single track) and 
inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. The topics of interest are similar 
to those in the general conference call for papers. However, the purpose 
of the Industrial Track is to emphasize the practical issues, 
observations, and measurements of "real-world" systems and applications 
and to disseminate information of particular interest to middleware 
researchers, architects, developers and administrators. For more 
information and submission guidelines see 
http://2019.middleware-conference.org/industry.html

Important Dates for Industry Track:
Paper Submission    September 6, 2019
Author Notification    September 30, 2019
Camera Ready    October 18, 2019

Call for Demos and Posters
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Middleware 2019 will provide a forum for live software demonstrations of 
middleware applications, systems, and tools. Demos could take a wide and 
open-ended variety of forms. Typical examples include: (i) presentation 
of an application that leverages advanced middleware concepts, (ii) 
working through coding of an example on a novel middleware platform, or 
(iii) real-time visualizations of middleware system metrics under 
simulated workloads. Although the form may vary, demo presenters should 
take advantage of not being constrained by the format of a traditional 
slide presentation. Demos are encouraged for both early prototypes and 
mature technology. Posters will provide an opportunity for conference 
attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview 
late-breaking research results. Poster sessions will provide an informal 
setting for presenters to communicate ideas or results and also to 
collect feedback from attendees.

Demo or poster contributions are solicited in all areas of middleware 
research and applications. For a list of applicable topics, please 
consider those from the call for papers. For more details and submission 
guidelines see http://2019.middleware-conference.org/demo.html

Demos and Posters Deadlines:
Paper Submission    September 6, 2019
Author Notification    September 30, 2019
Camera Ready    October 15, 2019