Overview

Middleware 2009 is seeking high-quality tutorials covering both practice- and research-oriented topics of interest to middleware practitioners and researchers.

We are particularly interested in tutorials on novel and fast growing technologies, with significant industrial and research potential.

Format & Schedule

Tutorials will take place on Monday November 30 and Tuesday December 1, 2009, in the two days before the conference main sessions. Individual Tutorials should last between half a day and one full day.

Important Dates
Proposal Submission deadline: June 10, 2009 (Samoa Standard Time)
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2009

Proposals, Submission & Selection

Proposals for tutorial should include the following information (lengths are indicative):

- Tutorial's Title
- Name, contact details, and affiliation of the presenter(s)
- Length of the tutorial (half a day / a full day)
- A short description of the tutorial's motivation and abstract (half a page, 300 words)
- A bullet point list of the tutorial's plan and content (half a page)

Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Middleware 2009 Tutorials Chair, Francois Taiani (f.taiani@lancaster.ac.uk) by June 14, 2009, 23:59 Samoa Standard Time (UTC-11:00). Proposals will be reviewed and selected by the Tutorials Selection Committee.

Tutorials Selection Committee
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University (Chair)
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University
Himanshu Khurana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies

Topics of Interest (not exhaustive)
Middleware platforms

• Middleware for Web services and Web-service composition
• Middleware for cluster and grid computing
• Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
• Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
• Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing
• Middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks
• Middleware for next generation telecommunication platforms
• Semantic middleware
• Middleware supporting service-oriented architectures
• Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
• Middleware support for multimedia
• Middleware solutions for (large scale) distributed databases
• Middleware for data intensive computing

Systems issues

• Reliability, fault tolerance, and quality-of-service
• Scalability of middleware
• Real-time solutions for middleware platforms
• Information assurance and security
• Dynamic configuration and self- or autonomic- management of middleware
• Novel communication protocols and architectures
• Virtualization, virtualized provisioning, and their interaction with middleware

Design principles and tools

• Methodologies and tools for designing, implementing, verifying, and evaluating middleware
• Novel development paradigms, APIs, and languages
• Existing paradigms revisited: object models, aspect orientation, etc.
• Evaluation techniques and empirical studies for middleware solutions