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From 2014 onwards, the proceedings of MIDDLEWARE are published by ACM.

From 1998-2013, the proceedings of MIDDLEWARE were published by Springer – Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and are crosslinked from the ACM Digital Library here (check under alphabet ‘M’)

For your convenience, the proceedings of the main research track of MIDDLEWARE are linked below.

The ACM page of MIDDLEWARE links proceedings of the Industry Track and several workshops that have been affiliated with MIDDLEWARE.