MIDDLEWARE 2022

Middleware 2022 will be a physical conference in Quebec City, scheduled for November 2022. All presentations for all tracks are expected to be in person. For special inquiries, please contact the general co-chairs.

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

Programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware

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

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

Serverless, Function-as-a-Service computing

General Co-Chairs

Kaiwen Zhang, ÉTS Montréal

Abdelouahed Gherbi, ÉTS Montréal

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

PC Co-Chairs

Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, Indiana, United States

‪Marta Patino-Martinez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain