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

[Praveen Madiraju]

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                               FINAL 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 16, 2007 (new and hard deadline)  ++++++++++

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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, single column, 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 also 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 16, 2007 
Notification to authors: October 19, 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.  Hamidah Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
8.  Ajay K. Katangur, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, USA
9.  Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
10.  Srilaxmi Malladi, Georgia State University, USA
11. Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
12. Moushumi Sharmin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
13. Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Georgia State University, USA
14. Karthikeyan Umapathy, Pennsylvania State University, USA
15. Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA
16. Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
17. Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China
18. Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
19. Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA
20. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
21. Yingwu Zhu, Seattle University, USA
22. Farahana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada