Subject: [P2Prg] CFP: Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2007

From: Qi Han <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:11:36 -0700 (PDT)

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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 < [email-masked]> 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
   ---------------------------

   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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