[ecoop-info] CFP : Middleware Engineering Track @ ACM SAC 2008

[Praveen Madiraju]

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS
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                 The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008)
                      Special Track on Middleware Engineering (ME)
                       March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

             Conference Website : http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008
             Track Website : http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~praveen/me.html

+++++ Deadline for Paper Submissions : September 08, 2007  ++++++++++

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SAC 2008
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For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been 
a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, 
software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 
is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), 
and is hosted by the University of Fortaleza and the Federal University of 
Ceará, in Brazil.

MIDDLEWARE ENGINEERING TRACK
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Research in middleware systems has evolved from simple client server models to 
distributed systems, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, mobile devices, service 
oriented computing, grid computing, agent based computing, smart devices, and 
sensors. Each of the above areas poses its own unique challenges in the design, 
development and deployment of middleware, its components and applications using 
such middleware.

The main objective of the middleware engineering track is to bring together 
researchers and practitioners working in middleware systems with topics ranging 
from different areas such as distributed computing, grid computing, service 
oriented computing, pervasive computing, P2P computing, agent based systems and 
sensor networks under one roof with an aim of encouraging exchange of ideas and 
experiences among these diverse communities. We solicit papers dealing with 
design, development and deployment of middleware and its systems. We are also 
interested in specific components of middleware systems, the way they interact 
with other modules, components design and development, models of the 
components, middleware system issues and also novel applications using 
middleware systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics include, but are not limited to:

+ Middleware for collaborative applications
+ Middleware for agent based systems
+ Middleware for service oriented systems
+ Middleware for mobile and ubiquitous computing
+ Middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks
+ Middleware solutions for Security, Privacy and Trust
+ Middleware for distributed systems including databases, P2P, and grid based 
systems
+ Middleware issues for real time systems
+ Software engineering techniques for middleware
+ Novel applications using middleware
+ Evaluation metrics and bench mark systems for middleware
+ Specific components of middleware such as : device discovery, directory 
service,
   execution service, listening service, communication service, and data access 
service


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND  PUBLICATION
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Authors are invited to submit papers using the automated submission system
available from: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx.
Submissions must be original, unpublished and not currently under review
by workshops, conferences, or journals. A paper cannot be submitted to
more than one track.

+ The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the
   paper and any self-reference should be in the third person. This is to
   facilitate blind review.
+ The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words
   (approximately 15 pages, 11 point font size, times roman, and double-spaced).
+ A separate cover sheet attached to each paper should
   show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s),
   and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which
   correspondence should be sent. A few keywords should be provided.

All accepted papers will be published by ACM, and will be included in the SAC 
2008 conference proceedings

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for paper submissions: September 08, 2007
Notification to authors: October 16, 2007
Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due : October 30, 2007

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Track Co-Chairs

+ Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA (iq at mscs.mu.edu)
+ Praveen Madiraju, Marquette University, USA (praveen at mscs.mu.edu)

Program Committee

1.  Shameem Ahmed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2.  Janaka Balasooriya, University of Missouri - Rolla, USA
3.  Doina Bein, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
4.  Paolo Bellavista, DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
5.  Munirul Haque, Purdue University, USA
6.  Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
7.  Ajay K. Katangur, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, USA
8.  Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
9.  Srilaxmi Malladi, Georgia State University, USA
10. Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
11. Moushumi Sharmin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
12. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Georgia State University, USA
13. Karthikeyan Umapathy, Pennsylvania State University, USA
14. Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA
15. Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
16. Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China
17. Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
18. Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA
19. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
20. Yingwu Zhu, Seattle University, USA
21. Farahana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada