Sunday 14 July 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS 8th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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| 8th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG) |
| Workshop at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2013 Conference    |
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Dec 9 ? 13, 2013
Beijing, China
http://www.dedisys.org/mw4ng13/

This workshop has its own ISBN and will be included in the ACM digital library.

Important Dates
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Paper submission: August 23, 2013
Author notification: September 30, 2013
Camera-ready copies: October 11, 2013

Call details
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While dependability and security become cornerstones of the information
society, they are impaired by change, imprecision, and emerging behavior
due to scale, dynamism, and heterogeneity. To address these challenges for
next generation Internet computing, key extra-functional properties should
not be an "add on" or an "end to end task" anymore, but rather built in by
means of Middleware.

Service oriented computing, cloud computing, socio-technical systems, and
Web 2.0-style applications are important steps for next generation Internet
computing, but still fall short when non functional (a.k.a.
extra-functional) quality properties (e.g., dependability, security,
performance, and scalability) need to be addressed. The emerging Internet
communication architecture (e.g., from projects on the Internet of Things,
the Future Internet, etc.) also requires middleware support for delivering
computing applications and services. We can see many Internet Computing
systems following proprietary end-to-end solutions and being weaved with
application-specific approaches. This clearly hinders re-use, which can
only be successfully leveraged by Middleware-based solutions. This in turn
requires new flexibility for Middleware (adaptivity, elasticity,
resilience) and new ways of collaboration between Middleware and
applications/services.

Therefore, extra-functional quality properties need to be addressed not
only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of
actual mechanisms, protocols, and algorithms. Some of the 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 (e.g., big data,
millions of participating parties in different roles) and mobility were
added to the crucial challenges for Internet computing middleware. The
proposed workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how specifically
middleware can address the above challenges of next generation Internet
computing.

Topics of interest
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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 Next Generation Internet
Computing
* Middleware support for dependability, security, performance, and scale
* Middleware support for adaptivity, resilience, and elasticity for novel
Internet computing systems
* Evaluation of and experience reports about middleware for novel Internet
Computing systems

Workshop co-chairs
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Karl M. G?schka (main contact), mw4ng@dedisys.org
Jos? Pereira
Patrick C. K. Hung

Program committee
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Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain)
Mark Baker, Zepheira LLC (Canada)
Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa (Portugal)
Paul Brebner, NICTA (Australia)
Christoph Bussler, Xtime (USA)
Lasaro Camargos, University of Uberlandia (Brazil)
Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway)
Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel (Switzerland)
Lorenz Froihofer, Telekom (Austria)
Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France)
Chirine Ghedira, Univ. of Lyon 3 (France)
Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF (Norway)
Peng Han, Congqing Academy of Science (China)
Yanbo Han, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
Mehdi Jazayeri, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Ihor Kuz, NICTA (Australia)
Mark Little, JBoss (USA)
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research (USA)
Raimundo Macedo, Federal University of Bahia (Brasil)
Kostas Magoutis, Foundation for Research and Technology (Greece)
Piyush Maheshwari, Pitney Bowes Software (India)
Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP
(Brazil)
Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM Research (India)
Helen Paik, School of Computer Science and Engineering (Australia)
Cesare Pautasso, Universit? della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)
Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy)
Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France)
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Bruno Schulze, National Lab for Scientific Computing (Brazil)
Juan Manuel Tirado, INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique (France)
Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Ricardo Vila?a, Universidade do Minho (Portugal)
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway)
Marko Vukolic, Eurecom (France)
Hiroshi Wada, NICTA (Australia)
Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Liming Zhu, NICTA (Australia)

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