ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2012, Call for Participation (Early Registration TODAY)

***** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE TODAY *********

*13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference*
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3-7 December, 2012
http://middleware2012.cs.mcgill.ca/

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IMPORTANT DATES
October 31, 2012--Early Registration Deadline!
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*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*

The ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a premier forum for the
discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design,
implementation, experimentation, deployment, and usage of middleware
systems.

Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 13th
International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for
middleware research, technology and experimentation in 2012. The scope
of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and
evaluation of system platforms and architectures for current and
future computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights
of the conference will include a high quality technical program,
invited speakers, an industrial track, poster and demo presentations,
a doctoral symposium, and workshops.

*PROGRAM OVERVIEW*

KEYNOTES:

"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),"
Jim Larus, Microsoft Research, USA

"Integrating Crowd and Cloud Resources for Making Sense of Big Data,"
Michael Franklin, University of California, Berkeley, USA

RESEARCH TUTORIALS:

"Temporal Stream Processing and Its Application to Big Data Analytics,"
Badrish Chandramouli, Microsoft Research

"Middleware Tools for Computer Games,"
Alexander Denault

RESEARCH-TRACK PAPERS:

Pogo, a Middleware for Mobile Phone Sensing. Niels Brouwers
(Delft University, Netherlands), and Koen Langendoen (Delft
University, Netherlands)

MORENA: A Middleware for Programming NFC-enabled Android Applications
as Distributed Object-Oriented Programs. Andoni Lombide Carreton
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Kevin Pinte (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium) and Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
Belgium)

CrowdMAC: A Crowdsourcing System for Mobile Access (short
presentation). Ngoc Do (University of California, Irvine, USA),
Cheng-Hsin Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) and Nalini
Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)

m.Site: Efficient Content Adaptation for Mobile Devices (short
presentation). Aaron Koehl (College of William and Mary, USA) and
Haining Wang (College of William and Mary, USA)

Fmeter: Extracting Indexable Low-level System Signatures by Counting
Kernel Function Calls. Tudor Marian (Google, USA), Hakim
Weatherspoon (Cornell University, USA), Ki-Suh Lee (Cornell University
(USA), and Abhishek Sagar (Microsoft USA)

SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments.
Ashish Gehani (SRI International, USA) and Dawood Tariq (SRI
International, USA)

VScope: Middleware for Troubleshooting Time-Sensitive Data Center
Applications. Chengwei Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology,
USA), Infantdani Abel Rayan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) ,
Greg Eisenhauer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Karsten Schwan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Vanish Talwar (HP Labs, USA),
Matthew Wolf (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), and Chad
Huneycutt (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Unifying Thread-Level Speculation and Transactional Memory. Joao
Barreto (Technical University Lisbon, Portugal), Aleksandar Dragojevic
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland), Paulo
Ferreira (Technical University Lisbon, Portugal), Ricardo Filipe
(Technical University Lisbon, Portugal), and Rachid Guerraoui (Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)

OverStar: an open approach to end-to-end middleware services in
systems of systems. Paul Grace, David Bromberg, Laurent
Reveillere, and Gordon Blair

Unification of publish/subscribe systems and stream databases: the
impact on complex event processing Joseph Sventek (University of
Glasgow, United Kingdom) and Alexandros Koliousis (University of
Glasgow, United Kingdom)

SOFTScale: Stealing Opportunistically For Transient Scaling.
Anshul Gandhi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Timothy Zhu
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon
University, USA), and Michael Kozuch (Intel Labs, USA)

Taking Garbage Collection Overheads out of the Critical Path in SSDs.
Myoungsoo Jung (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Ramya
Prabhakar (Pennsylvania State University, USA), and Mahmut Kandemir
(Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Message-Passing Concurrency for Scalable, Stateful, Recon gurable
Middleware (short presentation). Cosmin Arad (KTH - Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden), Jim Dowling (KTH - Royal Institute
of Technology, Sweden), and Seif Haridi (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science (SICS), Sweden)

Opportunistic Multipath Forwarding in Publish/Subscribe Overlay
Networks (short presentation). Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh
(University of Toronto, Canada) and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of
Toronto, Canada)

PolderCast: Fast, Robust, and Scalable Architecture for P2P
Topic-based Pub/Sub (short presentation). Vinay Setty
(University of Oslo, Norway), Maarten van Steen (VU University
Amsterdam, Netherlands), Roman Vitenberg (University of Oslo, Norway),
and Spyros Voulgaris (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)

High-Performance Location-Aware Publish-Subscribe on GPUs (short
presentation). Gianpaolo Cugola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
and Alessandro Margara (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Enabling effi cient placement of virtual infrastructures in the Cloud.
Ioana Giurgiu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Claris Castillo (IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center), Asser Tantawi (IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center), and Malgorzata Steinder (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

A Scalable Inline Cluster Deduplication Framework for Big Data
Protection. Yinjin Fu (National University of Defense
Technology, China & University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA), Hong Jiang
(University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA), and Nong Xiao (National
University of Defense Technology, China)

CloudPack: Exploiting Workload Flexibility Through Rational Pricing.
Vatche Ishakian (Boston University, USA), Raymond Sweha (Boston
University, USA), Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA), and
Jonathan Appavoo (Boston University, USA)

Dynamic software deployment from clouds to mobile devices. Ioana
Giurgiu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Oriana Riva (Microsoft Research,
Redmond, USA), and Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Enhancing the OS Against Security Threats in System Administration.
Nuno Santos (MPI-SWS, Germany), Rodrigo Rodrigues (Universidade
Nova Lisboa, Portugal), and Bryan Ford (Yale University, USA)

On the Practicality of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance.
Nikos Chondros (University of Athens, Greece), Konstantinos
Kokordelis (University of Athens, Greece), and Mema Roussopoulos
(University of Athens, Greece)

SCORe: a Scalable One-Copy Serializable Partial Replication Protocol.
Sebastiano Peluso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Paolo
Romano (IST/INESC-ID of Lisbon, Portugal), and Francesco Quaglia
(Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

P3S: A Privacy Preserving Publish-Subscribe Middleware. Partha
Pal (BBN Technologies, USA), Greg Lauer (BBN Technologies, USA), Joud
Khoury (BBN Technologies, USA), Nick Ho  (BBN Technologies, USA), and
Joseph Loyall (BBN Technologies, USA)


INDUSTRY-TRACK PAPERS

Modeling and Analysis of Middleware Design for Streaming Power-Grid
Applications. Ilge Akkaya (UC Berkeley), Yan Liu (Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory), Ian Gorton (Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory)

WSFAggressor: An Extensible Web Service Framework Attacking Tool.
Rui André Oliveira (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Nuno
Laranjeiro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Rapid Adjustment and Adoption to MIaaS Clouds. Balaji
Viswanathan (IBM Research, India), Akshat Verma (IBM Research, India,
Bharat Krishnamurthy (IBM Research - India), Praveen Jayachandran (IBM
Research, India)

Empirical Study of Application Runtime Performance using On-demand
Streaming Virtual Disks in the Cloud. Han Chen (IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center), Minkyong Kim (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Zhe
Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Hui Lei (IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center)

Faunus: a flexible middleware for specifying and managing multimodal
multiparty collaborations. Surrendar Chandra (FX Palo Alto
Laboratory), Maribeth Black (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

An Approach to High Availability for Cloud Servers with Snapshot
Mechanism. Hoi Chan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Trieu
Chieu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)


WORKSHOPS:

- 10th International Workshop on Middleware for Clouds and e-science (MGC)
- 7th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing Workshop (MW4NG0}
- 11th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM)
- Workshop on Secure and Dependable Middleware for Cloud Monitoring and
Management (SDMCMM)
- 7th Workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-time Support for
- Networked Embedded Systems (MidSens)
- Workshop on Multi-device App Middleware
- Doctoral Symposium

ORGANIZATION:

General Chair
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada

Program Committee Chairs
Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece

Industry Chairs
Michael Spreitzer, IBM, USA
Jan de Meer, SmartSpaceLab, Germany

Workshop Chair
Marta Patino-Martinez, Technical University, Madrid, Spain

Demo and Poster Chair
Eric Wohlstadter, UBC, Canada

Sponsorship Chair
Fred Douglis, EMC Backup Recovery Systems, USA

Local Arrangements Chair
Wenbo He, McGill University, Canada

Web Chair
Muthucumaru Maheswaran, McGill University, Canada

Proceedings Chair
Kévin Huguenin, EPFL, Switzerland

Registration Chair
Kamal Zellag, McGill University, Canada

Publicity Chairs
Soila Kavulya, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Jiaqi Tan, DSO National Labs, Singapore; Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Rolando Martins, University of Porto, Portugal

Program Committee
Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK
Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Antonio Casimiro, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA
Brian Cooper, Google
Dilma da Silva, IBM Research, USA
Xavier Defago, JAIST School of Information Science, Japan
Tudor A. Dumitras, Symantec Research, USA
Amr El-Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
David Eyers, University of Cambridge, UK
Paulo Ferreira, INESC, Portugal
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Davide Frey, INRIA, France
Phil Gibbons, Intel Labs, USA
Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
Rachid Guerraoui, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Matti Hiltunen, AT & T Labs, USA
Gang Huang, Peking University, China
Kevin Huguenin, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Wouter Joosen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Vana Kalogeraki, AUEB, Greece
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France
Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Harry C. Li, Facebook, USA
Keith Marzullo, University of California, San Diego, USA
Sebastian Michel, University of Saarland, Germany
Louise E. Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Elie Najm, Telecom Paris Tech, France
Nikos Ntarmos, University of Patras, Greece
Adam Oliner, University of California, Berkeley
Esther Pacitti, University of Montpellier 2, France
Dina Papagiannaki, Telefonica, Spain
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College, UK
Krithi Ramamritham, I.I.T. Mumbai, India
Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA
Erik Riedel, EMC, USA
Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA
Doug C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Daniel P. Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Swami Sivasubramanian, Amazon, USA
Maarten Van Steen, VU University, Netherlands
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA
Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
Spyros Voulgaris, VU University, Netherlands
Paul Ward, University of Waterloo, Canada

-- 
Priya Narasimhan <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~priya>
Associate Professor | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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