[ecoop-info] [ACM Middleware2007] CFP: Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2007

[Qi Han]

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                    The 4th Middleware Doctoral Symposium (MDS2007)
    in conjunction with the 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware 
Conference 2007
                      supported by BBN Technologies

                      Newport Beach, California, USA
                            November 27, 2007
                    http://alamode.mines.edu/~qhan/mds07/
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    Following the success of the past symposiums in this series, MDS2007 aims at
    providing doctoral students with opportunities to present their work and obtain
    guidance from mentors as well as to provide contact to other students at a
    similar stage in their careers. The mentors are experienced researchers from
    either academia or industry.  The goal of the symposium is to expose students
    to helpful criticism on their current work and suggestions on possible future
    directions and focus. We believe that a forum like this will allow doctoral
    students to interact with experts in the middleware community, hence providing
    an exciting environment in which to inspire next-generation researchers to
    contribute to the development of middleware technologies.


    Topics of interest to this symposium include, but are not limited to the 
following:

    Platforms and architectures:

        * Middleware for Web services and Web-service composition
        * Middleware for cluster and grid computing
        * Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
        * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
        * Communication protocols and architectures
        * Middleware for pervasive/ubiquitous and mobile computing
        * Middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks
        * Middleware for multimedia applications
        * Service-oriented architectures
        * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches

    Systems issues:

        * Reliability, fault tolerance, and quality of service
        * Scalability of middleware: replication and caching
        * Systems management, including solutions for autonomic and 
self-managing middleware
        * Middleware feedback control solutions for self-regulation
        * Real-time solutions for middleware platforms
        * Information assurance and security
        * Evaluation techniques for middleware solutions
        * Middleware solutions for (large scale) distributed databases

    Design principles and tools:

        * Formal methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating 
middleware
        * Model-driven architectures
        * Software engineering for middleware
        * Engineering principles and approaches for middleware
        * Novel development paradigms, APIs, and languages
        * Existing paradigms revisited: object models, aspect orientation, etc.
        * On-the-fly management and configuration of middleware


    Symposium Format
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    The symposium is a full-day event followed by an informal dinner and poster
    session. Each participant is expected to participate in the symposium for the
    entire day, present at the poster session and attend the symposium dinner.

    The symposium will consist of a series of sessions, each devoted to the
    presentation of papers belonging to a common domain.  Each presentation 
will end
    with a mini-panel between the presenter, a mock thesis committee and the 
audience,
    led by the session chair.  In past years, this format has been found to lead to
    lively and productive discussions, as well as constructive feedback on the
    dissertation work.

    The symposium will also include a panel consisting of seasoned middleware
    researchers from both academia and industry, moderated by one of the 
organizers.
    The panel will provide general advice on how to do a great Ph.D. dissertation
    on middleware, and discuss open issues and future trends in the middleware 
field.

    The symposium will conclude with a poster session together with the conference
    Poster session. This provides an opportunity for additional feedback and
    suggestions on the dissertation work, contacts for further interaction, and
    experience in communicating with other researchers.


    Submission Guidelines
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    Doctoral students who are interested in submitting papers should be advanced
    enough in their studies to have a specific research proposal and some 
preliminary
    results with enough time remaining to benefit from the symposium experience.
    This would typically, but not exclusively, be students who are approximately
    one/two years from thesis completion.

    The paper should clearly explain:

        * research problem and its significance
        * related work and its limitations
        * research approach (algorithms, prototypes, empirical studies, etc.)
        * preliminary research findings
        * plans for future research

    Papers must not exceed 6 pages, including abstract, all figures, all tables,
    and references. Submitted papers should follow the ACM format for conference
    proceedings. Templates can be found at the following URL:
    http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

    Papers should be emailed to < qhan at mines.edu> with subject line clearly
    identifying "MDS2007 submission". All papers must be in PDF format.

    All submitted papers will be carefully reviewed by the program committee.
    All accepted papers will be published in the Middleware 2007 conference
    companion CD and the ACM's Digital Library.



    Important Dates
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    Paper submission deadline..................August 3, 2007
    Notification of acceptance ................September 22, 2007
    Camera-ready papers due....................October 1, 2007
    Symposium..................................November 27, 2007


    Symposium Chair
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    Qi Han..........................Colorado School of Mines, USA

    Technical Program Committee
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    Rajkumar Buyya..................University of Melbourne, Australia
    Geoff Coulson...................Lancaster University, UK
    Yi Cui..........................Vanderbilt University, USA
    Frank Eliassen..................University of Oslo, Norway
    Alessandro Garcia...............Lancaster University, UK
    Xiaohui Gu......................IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
    Tian He.........................University of Minnesota, USA
    Michi Henning...................Triodia Technologies, Australia
    Hans Arno Jacobsen..............University of Toronto, Canada
    Fabio Kon.......................IME/USP, Brazil
    Doug Lea........................SUNY Oswego, USA
    Peter Pietzuch..................Imperial College London, UK
    Maarten van Steen...............Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
    Stefan Tai......................IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
    Eli Tilevich....................Virginia Tech, USA
    Yingwu Zhu......................Seattle University, USA

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