Award Winners
Test of Time Award
The Test of Time Award, started in 2009, is given every year to a paper published in MIDDLEWARE 10 years prior, which has had the most impact since publication (in terms of seeding new research directions, influencing other research and/or resulting in widely used software systems). Candidates for the Test of Time Award are shortlisted and evaluated by a committee appointed by the Middleware Steering Committee. The awardees are invited to give a retrospective keynote talk at the conference.
Test of Time Awards, since 2009, are listed below. Please note that author affiliations listed correspond to those at the time of publication of the original paper (10 years prior to the year of award).
| Year of Award | Paper | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Testing Idempotence for Infrastructure as Code | Waldemar Hummer (TU Wien, Austria), Florian Rosenberg, Fabio Oliveira and Tamar Eilam (IBM Research, USA) |
| 2022 | SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments Talk Slides | Ashish Gehani, Dawood Tariq (SRI International) |
| 2021 | GreenWare: greening cloud-scale data centers to maximize the use of renewable energy | Yanwei Zhang, Yefu Wang (U. Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) and Xiaorui Wang (U. Tennessee, Knoxville, USA and The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) |
| 2020 | FLEX: a slot allocation scheduling optimizer for MapReduce workloads | Joel Wolf, Deepak Rajan, Kirsten Hildrum, Rohit Khandekar, Vibhore Kumar, Sujay Parekh, Kun-Lung Wu and Andrey Balmin (IBM Research, USA) |
| 2019 | Calling the cloud: enabling mobile phones as interfaces to cloud applications | Ioana Giurgiu, Oriana Riva, Dejan Juric, Ivan Krivulev, Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 2018 | pMapper: power and migration cost aware application placement in virtualized systems | Akshat Verma, (IBM Research, India), Puneet Ahuja, (IIT Delhi, India), Anindya Neogi (IBM Research, India) |
| 2017 | R-OSGi: Distributed Applications through Software Modularization | Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso and Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 2016 | Enforcing performance isolation across virtual machines in Xen | Diwaker Gupta (UCSD, USA), Ludmila Cherkasova, Rob Gardner (HP Labs, USA) and Amin Vahdat (UCSD, USA) |
| 2015 | Composite subscriptions in content-based publish/ subscribe systems | Guoli Li and Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| 2014 | The Peer Sampling Service: Experimental Evaluation of Unstructured Gossip-Based Implementations | Márk Jelasity (U. Bologna, Italy), Rachid Guearraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA Rennes, France) and Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit, Holland) |
| 2013 | Efficient Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching | Patrick Reynolds and Amin Vahdat (Duke University, USA) |
| 2011 | Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems | Antony I. T. Rowstron (Microsoft Research, UK) and Peter Druschel (Rice University, USA) |
| 2010 | Monitoring, security, and dynamic configuration with the dynamicTAO reflective ORB | Fabio Kon, Manuel Román, Ping Liu, Jina Mao, Tomonori Yamane, Claudio Magalhã and Roy H. Campbell (UIUC, USA) |
| 2009 | An architecture for next generation middleware | Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Philippe Robin and Michael Papathomas (Lancaster University, UK) |
| 2009 | A gossip-style failure detection service | Robbert van Renesse, Yaron Minsky and Mark Hayden (Cornell University, USA) |
Best Paper Award
The shortlisting of candidate papers and selection of the Best Paper Award is made by the Program Committee of the conference.
| Year | Paper | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | MicroEdge: a multi-tenant edge cluster system architecture for scalable camera processing | Difei Cao, Jinsun Yoo, Zhuangdi Xu, Enrique Saurez, Harshit Gupta, Tushar Krishna, Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| 2021 | SwitchFlow: preemptive multitasking for deep learning | Xiaofeng Wu, Jia Rao (U. Texas at Arlington, USA), Wei Chen (NVIDIA, USA), Hang Huang (Huazong University of Science and Technology, China), Chris H Q Ding (U. Texas at Arlington, USA), Heng Huang (U. Pittsburgh, USA) |
| 2020 | FLeet: Online Federated Learning via Staleness Awareness and Performance Prediction | Georgios Damaskinos, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec (EPFL, Switzerland), Vlad Nitu (INSA Lyon, France), Rhicheek Patra (EPFL, Switzerland), and Francois Taiani (IRISA France) |
| 2019 | ReLAQS: Reducing Latency for Multi-Tenant Approximate Queries via Scheduling | Logan Stafman, Andrew Or and Michael J. Freedman (Princeton University) |
| 2018 | QueCC: A Queue-oriented, Control-free Concurrency Architecture | Thamir M. Qadah (Purdue University, USA) and Mohammad Sadoghi (UC Davis, USA) |
| 2017 | A programming model for application-defined multipath TCP scheduling | Alexander Frömmgen, Amr Rizk, Tobias Erbshäußer, Max Weller, Boris Koldehofe, Alejandro Buchmann, and Ralf Steinmetz (TU Darmstadt, Germany) |
| 2016 | Locking Made Easy | Jelena Antic, Georgios Chatzopoulos, Rachid Guerraoui, Vasileios Trigonakis (EPFL, Switzerland) |
| 2015 | Managing the Energy-Delay Tradeoff in Mobile Applications with Tempus | Nima Nikzad (UCSD, USA), Marjan Radi, Octav Chipara (University of Iowa, USA), William G. Griswold (UCSD, USA) |
| 2014 | Consensus Inside | Tudor David, Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Maysam Yabandeh (Twitter Inc. USA) |
| 2013 | Views and Transactional Storage for Large Graphs | Michael M. Lee (UCSD, USA), Indrajit Roy, Alvin AuYoung, Vanish Talwar, K. R. Jayaram (HP Labs, USA) and Yuanyuan Zhou (UCSD, USA) |
| 2012 | Unifying thread-level speculation and transactional memory | João Barreto (INESC-ID/TU Lisbon, Portugal), Aleksandar Dragojevic (EPFL, Switzerland), Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Filipe (INESC-ID/TU Lisbon, Portugal), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland) |
| 2011 | Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones | Patrick Stuedi (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland), Iqbal Mohomed (IBM T. J. Watson, USA), Z. Morley Mao (U Michigan, USA), Mahesh Balakrishnan, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry and Ted Wobber (Microsoft Research, USA) |
| 2010 | Parametric subscriptions for content-based publish/subscribe networks | K. R. Jayaram, Chamikara Jayalath and Patrick Eugster (Purdue University, USA) |
| 2009 | MANETKit: supporting the dynamic deployment and reconfiguration of ad-hoc routing protocols | Rajiv Ramdhany, Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, David Hutchison (Lancaster University, UK) |
| 2008 | Towards end-to-end quality of service: controlling I/O interference in shared storage servers | Gokul Soundararajan and Christiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| 2008 | Burstiness in multi-tier applications: symptoms, causes, and new models | Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale (College of William and Mary, USA), Ludmila Cherkasova (HP Labs, USA) and Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary, USA) |
| 2007 | Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-Hoc Gaming | Nuno Santos, Luis Veiga and Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID/Technical University of Lisbon) |
Best Student Paper Award
The shortlisting of candidate papers and selection of the Best Student Paper Award is made by the Program Committee of the conference.
| Year | Paper | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Sizeless: predicting the optimal size of serverless functions | Simon Eismann, Johannes Grohmann (U. Wurzburg, Germany), Cristina Abad (ESPOL, Ecuador), Nikolas Herbst and Samuel Kounev (U. Wurzburg, Germany) |
| 2020 | Resilient Cloud-based Replication with Low Latency | Michael Eischer and Tobias Distler (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany) |
| 2019 | Lazarus: Automatic Management of Diversity in BFT Systems | Miguel Garcia, Alysson Bessani and Nuno Neves (University of Lisbon, Portugal) |
| 2018 | Adaptive Software Cache Management | Gil Einziger (Ben Gurion Uni, Israel), Ohad Eytan (Technion, Israel), Roy Friedman (Technion, Israel) and Benjamin Manes |
| 2017 | Swayam: distributed autoscaling to meet SLAs of machine learning inference services with resource efficiency | Arpan Gujarati (MPI-SWS, Germany), Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He (Microsoft Research, USA), Kathryn McKinley (Google, USA) and Björn B. Brandenburg (MPI-SWS, Germany) |
| 2016 | Bifrost: Supporting Continuous Deployment with Automated Enactment of Multi-Phase Live Testing Strategies | Gerald Schermann, Dominik Schöni, Philipp Leitner and Harald C. Gall (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| 2015 | Configuring Distributed Computations Using Response Surfaces | Adem Efe Gancer, David Bindel, Emin Gün Sirer and Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University, USA) |
| 2014 | Slider: incremental sliding window analytics | Pramod Bhatotia (MPI-SWS, Germany), Umut A. Acar (CMU, USA and INRIA, France), Flavio P. Junqueira (Microsoft Research, UK) and Rodrigo Rodrigues (NOVA Univ. Lisbon, Portugal) |
| 2013 | Testing Idempotence for Infrastructure as Code | Waldemmar Hummer (TU Wien, Austria), Florian Rosenberg, Fábio Oliveira and Tamar Eilam (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) |