Middleware 2004 ACM/IFIP/USENIX 5th International Middleware Conference Renaissance Toronto Hotel at SkyDome Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 18th - 22nd, 2004

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Overview

Requirements for faster development cycles, decreased development efforts, greater software reuse, and better end-to-end control over system resources are motivating the creation and use of middleware systems and middleware-based architectures. Middleware is systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Its primary role is to functionally bridge the gap between application programs and the lower-level hardware and software infrastructure in order to coordinate how application components are connected and how they interoperate. Furthermore, middleware enables and simplifies the integration of components developed by multiple technology suppliers.

In this sense middleware systems are sets of services and abstractions that facilitate the development and deployment of distributed applications in heterogeneous, distributed, computing environments.

Next-generation distributed applications and systems will increasingly be developed using middleware. This dependency poses hard challenges, including latency hiding, masking partial failures, information assurance and security, legacy integration, dynamic service partitioning and load balancing, and end-to-end quality of service specification and enforcement. To address these challenges, researchers and practitioners need to discover and validate techniques, patterns, and optimizations for middleware frameworks, multi-level distributed resource management, and adaptive and reflective middleware architectures.

Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 5th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2004. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality technical program, tutorials, invited speakers, poster presentations, and workshops.

The proceedings of Middleware 2004 will be published as a Springer-Verlag volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. For paper formatting instructions see the Springer-Verlag guidelines for authors. All papers should be no more than 20 pages in length. For more detailed submission instructions, please visit the Middleware 2004 web site.

Topics of Interest

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

• Distributed real-time and embedded middleware platforms

• Reliable and fault-tolerant middleware platforms

• Support for multimedia in middleware platforms

• Middleware for Grid computing

• Novel quality of service architectures and evaluation techniques

• Event-based, publish/subscribe and messaging-oriented middleware platforms

• Open architectures for reconfigurable middleware

• Adaptive and reflective middleware

• Aspect-oriented middleware

• Generative programming techniques for middleware development

• Middleware protocols and services for information assurance and security

• Formal methods and tools for reasoning about middleware systems and services

• Management and use of component-based systems in distributed environments

• Applications of middleware technologies, including telematics, command and control, avionics, and e-commerce

• Novel paradigms, APIs, and languages for distributed systems

• Integration of middleware with model-integrated computing architectures, such as the OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA)

• Extensions and refinements to RM-ODP, CORBA, J2EE, .NET, etc.

• Impact of emerging Internet technologies and standards on middleware platforms

• Integration of middleware platforms with Web services and Java technologies

• Distributed systems management and interactive configuration and development tools

• Issues of scalability in existing and new distributed systems platforms

• Engineering distributed systems in heterogeneous and mobile networks

• Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing

Program Committee

Important Dates

Related Events

• The 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases also to be held in Toronto, Canada. For more information please visit VLDB 2004 .
• The 23rd Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing and the Workshop on Concurrency and Synchronization in Java Programs held in conjunction. For more information please visit PODC 2004 .

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