Topics

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

• Platforms and Usage Models of Middleware for
  • Emerging cloud computing platforms, 5G, NFV
  • Data-intensive computing (Big Data) and data analytics
  • IoT, Cyber Physical Systems, Smart Cities
  • Mobile devices and services
  • Ubiquitous and pervasive computing
  • Internet applications and multimedia

• Systems Issues for Middleware
  • Reliability and fault tolerance
  • Consistency, availability, and replication
  • Energy- and power-aware techniques
  • Security and privacy
  • Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
  • Real-time solutions and quality of service
  • Scalability and performance

• Design Principles and Programming Support
  • Event-based, pub/sub, and P2P solutions
  • Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches
  • Novel programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware
  • Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation
  • Retrospective reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g, object models, aspect orientation, etc.

A description of the three types of submissions:

1. Research Papers

   Original research papers are sought on the above topics.

2. Experimentation and Deployment Papers

   Experience papers describe complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned (including negative results).

3. Big-Ideas Papers

   We also encourage big ideas papers; that is papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. Such papers should clearly indicate their vision; why the idea is revolutionary and not evolutionary; what the major questions still to be answered are; and possible avenues of attack for the community to pursue towards the development of the idea.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, appendices, etc. In addition to the 12 pages allowed for technical content, a submission may include any number of additional pages of bibliographic references.

Submitted papers should adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM Style, and should clearly indicate their type on their first page. Please note that submissions are single-blind: authors’ names should appear.

Note that the process for publication in the Middleware companion proceedings will be explained in the relevant, specific CFPs (e.g., Industry short papers, Doctoral workshop).

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)