[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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