CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
MIDDLEWARE 2005
ACM/IFIP/USENIX
6th International
Middleware Conference
Grenoble, France
November
28th - December
2nd, 2005
Following
the
success of the past conferences in this series in the Lake District, UK (1998), in Palisades, NY (2000), in Heidelberg, Germany (2001), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2003), in Toronto, Canada (2004), the 6th International
Middleware Conference in Grenoble, France in 2005 aims at being the
premier
conference on middleware research and technology in 2005. The broad
scope of
the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and
evaluation of
distributed systems platforms and architectures for future computing
environments.
For the first time, Middleware will have a demonstrators track where
research
and development projects will have an opportunity to be shown and
demonstrated
in public. The demonstrations will have their own sessions to ensure
attendance
(Middleware is planned as a single track conference). We are interested
in demonstrators
of systems, platforms, and applications directly related to Middleware.
Topics
Topics include
but are not restricted to:
Middleware platforms:
- Middleware
for Web services and Web service composition
- Platforms
for cluster, grid and peer-to-peer computing
- Event-based,
publish/subscribe and message-oriented middleware
- Middleware
for ubiquitous and mobile computing
- Applications
(enterprise, P2P, scientific,
mobile, embedded, sensors)
Middleware
protocols, algorithms and architectures:
- Service
Oriented Architectures
- Scalability,
reliability, fault-tolerance, real-time
- Novel
quality of service architectures and evaluation techniques
- Reconfigurable,
adaptable, autonomic and reflective middleware
- Software
engineering for middleware (AOP, dynamic AOP, etc.)
- Information
assurance and security
- Distributed
systems and applications management
- Infrastructures
for autonomic computing
- Sensor
networks and data streams (infrastructures, query processing)
Design principles and tools:
- Formal
methods and tools for middleware systems
- Novel
paradigms, APIs, and languages
- Model
Driven Architectures
- Development,
management and interactive
configuration
- Engineering
distributed systems in heterogeneous and mobile networks
The
conference
will provide Internet access and space for posters.
Submission
details
Submissions
describing the demonstrators should be at most 4 pages long and include
a
precise description of what will be demonstrated and how. The
submissions
should also indicate the equipment that will be used for the demo and
any
special requirement in terms of space, network access, projectors, etc.
Deadline for submissions is September 23rd. Please
send the demo
proposal as a PDF document to Gustavo Alonso (alonso@inf.ethz.ch)
indicating
"Middleware Demo Proposal" in the subject line.