Conference announcements

Dirk Craeynest

Subject: [SEWORLD] [CFP] ACM/IFIP/Usenix Middleware - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
From: Carlos Ribeiro <seworld-moderator@sigsoft.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 20:08:54 +0100
To: middleware@ist.utl.pt

AMC/IFIP/Usenix Middleware Conference Workshops
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

The Middleware conference traditionally includes a number of high
quality workshops, which are co-located with the conference.

Continuing with this tradition, the conference is hosting 6 workshops
on topics related to Middleware Science and Technology:

2nd International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'2011)
3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC'2011)
6th International Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC'2011)
9th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science (MGC'2011)
6th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services, and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'2011)
10th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'2011)
As in previous years, all Middleware workshop papers will be distributed broadly via the ACM Digital Library.

The common schedule for submission is:

- August 15, 2011 - Paper submission due date
- September 29, 2011 - Acceptance notification
- October 10, 2011 - Camera ready due date

December 12 - Workshops

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2nd International Workshop on Green Computing Middleware (GCM'2011)

General Information
Green computing is nowadays a major challenge for most IT organizations
that involve medium and large scale distributed infrastructures
like Grids, Clouds and Clusters. The GCM workshop will focus on next
generation middlewares that will require solutions for all aspects
of green computing such as energy efficiency, carbon footprint
reduction and cooling management. These middlewares must take into
account the impact of green computing on the traditional distributed
system issues like Dependability, Scalabilitity, Performance and
Configuration management. The workshop aims to provide a forum to a
wide audience from both the academia and the industry to discuss recent
and innovative results in the field. Topics of interest addressed by
the GCM workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Green architectures for Grids, Clouds and clusters
- Design of green computing middlewares
- Energy efficient large scale systems
- Green-oriented Autonomic computing
- QoS and green computing
- Energy efficiency benchmarking and profiling
- Green-aware configuration and resource management
- Component model for green computing
- Scheduling and control in green computing
- Virtualization impact for green computing
- Software engineering methodologies and tools for green computing
- Reporting and exposing carbon and energy impact
- Real life experiments

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3rd International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and
Embedded Computing (M-MPAC'2011)

Problem Space

Building on the success of M-MPAC 2009 and 2010, this event aims to
carry on development of a research roadmap on essential middleware
abstractions, platforms and applications for pervasive mobile and
embedded systems.

In recent year, tablet devices and operating systems have gained a
prominent spot in the limelight, while the smart phone landscape
continues to change with new offerings supporting a variety of
sensors, higher resolution and bigger size screens, high definition
video recording and playback, and enhanced gaming. Embedded devices
like televisions, TV set top boxes, and game consoles have grown
beyond their original functionality to home multimedia systems
supporting enhanced networking (e.g. IP TV and DNLA), and novel
user interaction through 3D displays, and movement detection based
controllers. The pervasiveness of such mobile and embedded devices
has given rise to a variety of novel applications, such as social
web applications, enhanced shopping applications/environments, ad-hoc
gaming, context-aware collaborative computing, participatory sensing,
etc. Access to cloud computing infrastructures further enhances the
capabilities of these devices offering additional opportunities for
innovative applications and uses.

Despite these successes, software development for such devices
and platforms remains largely ad hoc, while interoperability among
applications, devices and platforms is largely elusive. Middleware
has a key role to play in overcoming these problems. However,
it still unclear what are the appropriate middleware abstractions
and supporting infrastructures necessary for such applications. The
resource constrained nature and mobility of such devices place unique
requirements for middleware and necessitate the exploration of novel
programming abstractions, and supporting services, while capabilities
like location and context-awareness open new avenues for radical
approaches in their development.

Topics

The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

1.      Device platforms
Virtualization technologies and applications
Distributed Ensembles
Interaction paradigms and protocols
Emerging mobile platforms (e.g. Android)
Virtual machines

2.      Networking
Emerging wireless technologies and platforms
Experiences or case studies with new technologies (WiMax, WiBree, LTE, etc) and devices (MIP, UMPC, wearables, etc)
Multi-link scenarios: WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular network
Quality of service and network selection

3.      Data issues
Data formats and encoding
Availability and durability of data in personal networks
Synchronization of personal devices with other consumer electronics (e.g. cameras, iPods, etc)
Data portability

4.      Adaptability
Context-awareness, location monitoring
Resource management, cyber foraging, and energy-awareness
Using cloud infrastructures for computing-intensive tasks and data storage
Autonomics and self-* properties

5.      Security and Privacy
Privacy preservation and identity management for device-to-device interactions
Security architectures balancing risk and utility
Trust management in device ensembles
Mobile device data security
Identity federation

6.      Mobile and Social Web
Web architectures (REST, Ajax) for 3-screen usage in pervasive computing
Context and content adaptation and management in pervasive computing
Mobile web scalability and reliability in access
Content adaptation on mobile devices
Collaborative search

7.      Applications
Healthcare, entertainment, games, mobile TV, smart spaces, shopping, street navigation, etc.
Mobile phones in sensor and ad hoc networks
Application development on mobile and embedded devices
Programming models

8.      Experiences and case studies
Lessons from deployments
User experiences
Performance studies

Submission

Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and should
be formatted using the ACM proceeding style (see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Submission
implies that at least one of the authors will register
and present the paper. Please submit your paper in PDF at
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/m-mpac2011/openconf/.

Papers should present a view of the state of the art in a particular
sub-problem area, identify specific middleware challenges, and suggest
potential avenues for exploration by proposing models, abstractions and
infrastructure components addressing these challenges. Approximately
two thirds of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and
discussion of these papers, while the remaining third of the time
will be devoted to the development of the research roadmap.

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6th International Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing
(MW4SOC'2011)

Call for Papers
The initial promise of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) was a
world of globally cooperating services being loosely coupled to
flexibly create dynamic business processes and agile applications
that may span organisations and heterogeneous computing platforms
but can nevertheless adapt quickly and autonomously to changes of
requirements or context. Business process modelling and management,
Web2.0-style applications, human computing, context-aware systems, and
even cloud computing emerged mainly due to the paradigm shift towards
SOC. Nevertheless, there is still a strong need to merge technology
with an understanding of business processes and organizational
structures.

While the immediate need of middleware support for SOC is evident,
current approaches and solutions still do not sufficiently address
issues such as service discovery, re-use, re-purpose, composition and
aggregation support, service management, monitoring, and deployment
and maintenance of large-scale, heterogeneous, and possibly dynamic
infrastructures and applications. Moreover, quality properties
(in particular dependability, security, and performance) need to be
addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also
in terms of actual mechanisms, protocols, and algorithms. Challenges
are the administrative heterogeneity, the loose coupling between
coarse-grained operations and long-running interactions, high
dynamicity, and the required flexibility during run-time. Recently,
massive-scale and mobility were added to the challenges for SOC
middleware.

The proposed workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how
specifically service oriented middleware can address the above
challenges, to what extent it has to be service oriented itself,
and in particular how quality properties are supported appropriately.

Topics of Interest
The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress, problem statements,
and visionary papers!

The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

- Architectures and platforms for Middleware for SOC
- Core Middleware support for deployment, composition, and interaction
- Integration of SLA (service level agreement) and/or technical policy support through middleware
- Middleware support for service management, maintenance, monitoring, and control
- Middleware support for integration of business functions and organizational structures into Service oriented Systems (SOS)
- Evaluation of and experience reports about middleware for SOC and service oriented middleware

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9th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and
e-Science (MGC'2011)

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6th International Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services, and Run-Time
Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'2011)

Call For Papers
The aim of MidSensí11 is to stimulate research in the specific domain
of middleware for networked embedded systems. This yearís focus is
on sensor networks and robotics control ñ a broader focus than the
previous editions ñ since we believe that the extended scope will
result in complementary and synergetic submissions from researchers
working in both niches. Along with the ëcoreí topic of middleware
architectures, services and tool support, MidSensí11 will also seek
quality papers describing novel programming languages, run-time
support and relevant experience reports. As with previous editions
of this workshop, MidSensí11 will investigate how middleware support
can relieve developers from low-level, platform specific concerns,
while enabling optimal exploitation of available resources.

The workshop seeks papers in, but not limited to, the areas listed below:
Middleware Tools and Architectures:
Architectures for networked embedded systems.
Novel programming abstractions.
Lightweight agent middleware for embedded systems.
Testing and simulation tools.
Fault identification, diagnosis and repair.
Middleware services:
Location tracking, localization, and synchronization.
Support for real-time and safety-critical systems.
Data management, aggregation and filtering.
Energy-aware middleware mechanisms.
Fault tolerance, reliability and quality of service.
Privacy and security services.
Virtualization, sharing and trading of resources.
Run-time Support:
Overlay and topology creation, maintenance and management.
Resource/Service discovery and management.
Support for reconfiguration and adaptation.
Effective naming and addressing schemes.
Support for modeling and enacting safe software reconfiguration.
Management and Experiences:
Managing heterogeneity and network dynamism.
Integration of embedded systems with web services.
Experience and evaluation of middleware platforms.
Support for the unification of various networked embedded platforms.
Shared infrastructure embedded systems.

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10th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
(ARM'2011)

Overview. Nowadays middleware systems are required to support various
levels of flexibly to adapt to the increasing dynamism of new models
of computation and new classes of applications. These include:

- Networked applications that must operate under resource constraints and intermittent network connections,
- Cyber-physical systems with a close integrate of computation, physical devices and interaction with the physical world,
- Open systems that are long lived, able to accept new components, remove existing components, and adapt to new situations,
- A new generation of networked interactive applications driven by the availability of devices such as smart phones and tablets,
- New levels of high performance computing, for example the goal of exa-scale computing systems,
- Applications assembled on the fly to meet specific needs, from diverse and heterogeneous components, leading to a need for infrastructure that enables assembly of trustworthy (reliable, secure...) systems given high-level goals and constraints.

Research Topics
The workshop will address an extensive set of topics related to
adaptation mechanisms for context-aware services. The following
contributions will be particularly welcome:

- Design and performance of adaptive and/or reflective middleware platforms.
- Experiences with adaptive and reflective technologies in specific domainsóe.g., sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, mobile computing, grid computing, P2P, Systems-of-Systems, etc.
- Cross-layer interactions and adaptation mechanisms including network, OS and device level techniques.
- Adaptation and reflection in heterogeneous execution paradigmsóe.g., P2P networks, network-centric computing.
- Application of adaptive and reflective middleware techniques to achieve; reconfigurability and/or adaptability and/or separation of concerns.
- Incorporating non-functional properties into middlewareóreal-time, fault-tolerance, security, trust, privacy, etc.
- Fundamental developments in the theory and practice of reflection, as it relates to middleware.
- Techniques to improve performance and/or scalability of adaptive and reflective techniques.
- Evaluation methodologies for adaptive and reflective middleware.
- Approaches to maintain the integrity of adaptive and reflective technologies.
- Tool support for adaptive and reflective middleware.
- Design and programming abstractions to manage the complexity of adaptive and reflective mechanisms.
- Software engineering methodologies for the design and development of adaptive middleware.
- Methods for reasoning about services provided by adaptive/reflective middleware.
- The role of techniques such as learning in design of long lived adaptive middleware.
- Methods for asynchronous, distributed control, coordination/cooperation among components providing middleware services.

Workshop Format
The workshop will be organized as a series of sessions, each devoted to
the presentation of papers belonging to a common domain. Each session
will end with a mini-panel between the presenters, led by the session
chair or a pre-selected devil's advocate. In past years this format has
been found to lead to lively and productive discussions. The workshop
will include a special session for the presentation of posters and
demos of ongoing research efforts and software prototypes. The workshop
will conclude with a panel, moderated by one of the organizers,
to discuss open issues and future trends in the field.

Submission & Publication
Selection of workshop participants will be based on the submission of
a paper, poster or demo. Moreover, other participants may be invited
by the organizing committee. Thus, the ARM program committee seeks:

- Research papers should not exceed 6 pages of text on letter paper in ACM format. Content should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere;
- Poster submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract describing the poster content in ACM format; this offers the opportunity to present and receive feedback at the workshop about work still in its early stages;
- Demo submissions should initially submit a 2 page abstract in ACM format, describing the contribution and content of the demo; we are particularly interested in demonstrations of adaptive middleware tools and solutions.

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