CALL FOR PAPERS

The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008)
Special Track on Middleware Engineering

March 16 – 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

 


 

Track Website :  http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~praveen/me.html

  

 

News

Following are the list of papers and posters (in no particular order) accepted to the Middleware Engineering track at ACM SAC 2008

Full Papers

1) Context-Aware Middleware Architecture for Vertical Handover Support to Multi-homed Nomadic Mobile Services
    Pravin Pawar, Katarzyna Wac, Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Pierre Maret, Aart van Halteren, Hermie Hermens

2) Middleware of Taiwan UniGrid
    Po-Chi Shih, Hsi-Min Chen, Yeh-Ching Chung, Chien-Min Wang, Ruay-Shiung Chang, Ching-Hsien Hsu, Kuo-Chan Huang, Chao-Tung Yang

3) Decentralized Web Service Orchestration: A Reflective Approach
    Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Marta Patino-Martinez, Ernestina Martel

4) Dynamic Support to Transactional Remote Invocations over Multiple Transports
    Francisco Reverbel, Ivan Silva Neto

5) Towards a Service-Based Middleware Layer for Runtime Environments
    Abdulmalik Al-Gahmi, Jonathan Cook

Poster Papers

6) COSMOS: A Middleware Platform for Sensor Networks and a u-Healthcare Service
    Yung Bok Kim, Marie Kim, Yong Joon Lee

7) Exploiting Semantic Information on a Message Exchanging Middleware
    Daniel Lobato, Matheus Barbosa, Renato Freitas Bulcão Neto, Cesar Augusto Teixeira, Maria da Graça Pimentel

 

  

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Sept 08, 2007

Paper Submission

Oct 16, 2007

Author Notification

Oct 30, 2007

Camera-ready

 

TRACK CO-CHAIRS

 

·       Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed (iq@mscs.mu.edu), Marquette University, USA

·       Praveen Madiraju (praveen@mscs.mu.edu), Marquette University, USA

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

1.      Shameem Ahmed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2.      Janaka Balasooriya, University of Missouri - Rolla, USA

3.      Doina Bein, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

4.      Paolo Bellavista, DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

5.      Munirul Haque, Purdue University, USA

6.      Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada

7.      Ajay K. Katangur, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, USA

8.      Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China

9.      Srilaxmi Malladi, Georgia State University, USA

10.  Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA

11.  Moushumi Sharmin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

12.  Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Georgia State University, USA

13.  Karthikeyan Umapathy, Pennsylvania State University, USA

14.  Upkar Varshney, Georgia State University, USA

15.  Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

16.  Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China

17.  Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA

18.  Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA

19.  Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

20.  Yingwu Zhu, Seattle University, USA

21. Farahana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada

 

 

SAC 2008

 

For the past twenty-two years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2008 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by the University of Fortaleza and the Federal University of Ceará, in Brazil.

 

MIDDLEWARE ENGINEERING TRACK

 

Research in middleware systems has evolved from simple client server models to distributed systems, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, mobile devices, service oriented computing, grid computing, agent based computing, smart devices, and sensors. Each of the above areas poses its own unique challenges in the design, development and deployment of middleware, its components and applications using such middleware.

 

The main objective of the middleware engineering track is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in middleware systems with topics ranging from different areas such as distributed computing, grid computing, service oriented computing, pervasive computing, P2P computing, agent based systems and sensor networks under one roof with an aim of encouraging exchange of ideas and experiences among these diverse communities. We solicit papers dealing with design, development and deployment of middleware and its systems. We are also interested in specific components of middleware systems, the way they interact with other modules, components design and development, models of the components, middleware system issues and also novel applications using middleware systems.

 

The topics include, but are not limited to:

 

·    Middleware for collaborative applications

·    Middleware for agent based systems

·    Middleware for service oriented systems

·    Middleware for mobile and ubiquitous computing

·    Middleware for embedded systems and sensor networks

·    Middleware solutions for Security, Privacy and Trust

·    Middleware for distributed systems including databases, P2P, and grid based  systems

·     Middleware issues for real time systems

·     Software engineering techniques for middleware

·     Novel applications using middleware

·      Evaluation metrics and bench mark systems for middleware

·     Specific components of middleware such as : device discovery, directory service, execution service, listening service, communication service, and data access service

 

SUBMISSIONS

 

Authors are invited to submit papers using the automated submission system available from: http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2008/SubmitAbstract.aspx. Submissions must be original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or journals. A paper cannot be submitted to more than one track.

·     The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper and any self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review.

·     The body of paper should not exceed 4,000 words (approximately 15 pages, 11 point font size, times roman, and double-spaced).

·      A separate cover sheet attached to each paper should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent. A few keywords should be provided.

 

All accepted papers will be published by ACM, and will be included in the SAC 2008 conference proceedings