MIDDLEWARE 2021

We are currently planning for a physical conference in Quebec City, scheduled for December 2021. Due to the current pandemic, our plans may change and require a virtual conference. We will provide updates as they become available through our various channels (Website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn). In any case, please note that Middleware 2021 will adopt a 2-cycles submission process, and that the deadline for the 1st cycle submission of research articles is set to the end of November 2020.

ACM/IFIP Middleware

The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication.

Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, tutorials and workshops.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:

Cloud and data centers

Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling

Data-intensive computing (big data) and data analytics

Stream Processing

Middleware Systems for Machine learning

Mobile and pervasive systems and services

Middleware techniques for Internet-of-Things, smart cities

Fog, Edge computing

Middleware for cyber-physical and Real-time systems

Energy and power-aware techniques

Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions

Networking, network function virtualization, software-defined networking

Middleware for multimedia Systems

Fault tolerance and Consistency

Blockchains

Middleware support for security and privacy

Monitoring, resource management and analysis

Middleware Design principles

Programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware

Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches

Reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.

Methodologies and tools for middleware systems design, implementation, verification, and evaluation

General Co-Chairs

Kaiwen Zhang, ÉTS Montréal

Abdelouahed Gherbi, ÉTS Montréal

PC Co-Chairs

Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine

‪Luís Veiga, Instituto Superior Técnico (U.Lisboa) & INESC-ID