CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, AND
TUTORIALS
November
28th -
The
Middleware
conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and
recent
advances in the design and construction of middleware. Middleware is
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.
Submissions on a diversity of topics are sought,
particularly ones that identify new research directions. Middleware
2005 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 chair prior to submission.
Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 6th
International
Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research
and
technology in 2005. 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, tutorials,
invited
speakers, poster presentations, and workshops.
The proceedings of Middleware 2005 will be published as a Springer-Verlag volume in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science
Series.
Topics include
but are not restricted to:
Middleware platforms:
Middleware
protocols, algorithms and architectures:
Design principles and tools:
| Christiana Amza (Toronto U., Canada) | Roger Barga (Microsoft Labs, USA) |
| Alberto Bartoli (Trieste U., Italy) | Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK) |
| Christof Bornhoevd (SAP Labs, USA) | Roy Campbell (Urbana-Champaign, USA) |
| Fabio Casati (HP Labs, USA) | Geoff Coulson (Lancaster Uni., UK) |
| Peter Druschel (Rice U., USA) | Johann Eder (Uni. Klagenfuert, Austria) |
| Markus Endler (PUC-Rio, Brazil) | Mike Franklin (UC Berkeley) |
| Dana Florescu (BEA,USA) | Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) |
| Thomas Gschwind (IBM, Switzerland) | Monika Henzinger (EPFL, Switzerland) |
| Peter Honeyman (CITI, U. of Michigan, USA) | Wei Hong (Intel Berkeley) |
| Valérie Issarny (INRIA, France) | Arno Jacobsen (Toronto U, Canada) |
| Bettina Kemme (McGill U., Canada) | Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA- Rennes, France) |
| Fabio Kon (IME/USP Brazil) | Donald Kossmann (ETH, Zurich) |
| Frank Leymann (Stuttgart U., Germany) | Cecilia Mascolo (UCL, UK) |
| Ken Moody (U. Cambridge, UK) | Elie Najm (ENST, France) |
| Marta Patino (UPM, Spain) | Evvagelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) |
| Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA) | Krithi Ramamritahn (IIT Bombay, India) |
| Peter Steenkiste (CMU, USA) | Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, US) |
| Rick Schlichting (ATT Research, USA) | Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA-Grenoble, France) |
| Stefan Tai (IBM Watson, USA) | Doug Terry (Microsoft Research) |
| Peter Trantafillou (Patras U., Greece) | Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao Tung U., Taiwan) |
| Steve Vinoski (IONA, USA) | Werner Vogels (Amazon, USA) |
| Research Papers: | |
| Workshop Proposals: | March 15th, 2005 |
| Tutorial Proposals: | April 30th, 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance (papers): | June 30th, 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance (tutorials): | June 30th, 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance (workshops): | April 15th, 2005 |