[hpc-announce] Call for Papers: Middleware

[Stefanie Roos]

21st ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference

Delft, the Netherlands 

7-11 December, 2020

https://2020.middleware-conference.org/


CALL FOR PAPERS


IMPORTANT DATES

(Update COVID-19: To provide authors with additional time to prepare
their papers, we are extending the submission deadline for the research
papers by *two* weeks.)


          *new* May 27, 2020 - Abstract Submission

*new* June 3, 2020 - Paper Submission

*new* August 10-13, 2020 - Author Response Period

August 28, 2020 - Notification of Acceptance

September 18, 2020 - Camera-ready paper due

December 7-11, 2020 - Conference 


(Update COVID-19: The Middleware 2020 conference organization and the
steering committee are closely monitoring the global developments. We
will make a decision around late summer whether the conference can
happen as an in-person meeting in December in Delft or if we need to
organize Middleware 2020 as an online conference.)


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. 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.


TOPICS

Original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics are
sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The
topics of the interest for 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.


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 be found on the ACM template page. The font size has to
be set to 10pt.The Middleware 2020 conference proceedings will be
published in the ACM Digital Library. 



Please submit papers to https://middleware20.hotcrp.com.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

GENERAL CHAIR

Jan S. Rellermeyer, TU Delft, The Netherlands


PROGRAM CHAIRS 

Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA

Rüdiger Kapitza, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

  

INDUSTRY TRACK CHAIRS

Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research, USA

Ioana Giurgiu, IBM Research Zürich, Switzerland

 

WORKSHOP AND TUTORIALS CHAIRS

Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand

 

POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS

Ihor Kuz, University of New South Wales, Australia

Angela Nicoara, Lucerne ​University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

 

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Pramod Bhatotia, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

 

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

Sobhan Omranian Khorasani, TU Delft, The Netherlands

 

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR

Trudy Mittendorp, TU Delft, The Netherlands

 

WEB AND REGISTRATIONS CHAIR

Kim Roos, TU Delft, The Netherlands

 

SPONSORSHIP CHAIRS

Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research, USA

Lydia Chen, TU Delft, The Netherlands


PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Stefanie Roos, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Young-Woo Kwon, Kyungpook National University, South Korea

-- 
Stefanie Roos
Assistant Professor - Distributed Systems
TU Delft / EEMCS
Software Technology
Building 28
Room E3.360