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CFP: Middleware'01, IFIP/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS PLATFORMS,12-16 November 2001, Heidelberg, Germany



                         Call For Contributions

                            Middleware 2001
  IFIP/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS PLATFORMS
                 12-16 November 2001, Heidelberg, Germany

Middleware is now widely acknowledged to be the premier conference on
distributed systems platforms and open distributed processing.  The
conference is a synthesis of the major conferences and workshops in this
area
into a single international event.  Highlights of Middleware 2001 will
include a high-quality technical program, full and half-day tutorials,
invited speakers, poster presentations and an advanced topic workshop,
all
held in the beautiful university city of Heidelberg, Germany.

The focus of Middleware 2001 is on the design, implementation,
deployment and
evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future

networked environments.  Of particular interest is the experience with
both
new and existing architectures and platforms (such as RM-ODP, CORBA, RMI
and
DCOM) in environments which may include public, private and mobile
networks,
overlaid wired and wireless technologies, IPv6 and IP multicast,
multimedia
and real-time information and an increasing volume of WWW and Java
traffic.

Full papers accepted for presentation at Middleware 2001 will be
included in the proceedings published by Springer Verlag (LNCS series).
Extended  versions  of selected research papers will be considered for
publication
in "IEEE  Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems" and extended
versions of
experience papers will be considered for publication in "Software:
Practice and Experience".

Key Topics
==========

The conference seeks original, unpublished research and experience
papers on
all aspects of systems support for distributed applications including
case
studies on the use of such technologies and examples of advanced
distributed
applications.

The following topics have been identified by the program committee as
being
of special relevance to the conference:

 * integration of middleware platforms with web and Java technologies.
 * real-time middleware platforms including real-time ORBs.
 * reliable middleware platforms including fault-tolerant ORBs.
 * provision of multimedia support in middleware platforms.
 * applications of, and support for, QoS in middleware platforms.
 * event based, publish/subscribe and asynchronous platforms.
 * novel paradigms and APIs for distributed systems platforms.
 * open architectures for adaptive and reflective systems.
 * applications of middleware technologies including telematics and
commerce.
 * extensions and refinements to RM-ODP, CORBA, DCOM etc.
 * the impact of emerging Internet technologies on middleware platforms.

 * distributed systems management and interactive configuration and
   development tools.
 * issues of scalability in existing and new distributed systems
platforms.
 * engineering distributed systems in heterogeneous and mobile networks.



Advanced Topic Workshop - Middleware for Mobile Computing
=========================================================

The software infrastructure to support mobile applications is becoming
critically important to the next horizon in computing.  This one-day
workshop
is intended as a forum for understanding the issues associated with this

emerging area of middleware for mobile computing.  We propose to focus
the
discussion on the following key topics:

 * Requirements on mobile middleware.
 * Paradigms and platforms for mobile computing.
 * Service architectures and novel services.
 * Performance and manageability issues.

We are interested in work-in-progress and visionary papers as well as
experimental and systems-related papers.  To encourage a working
atmosphere,
the workshop will invite a limited number of conference participants
based on
position papers.  Position papers should be two to four pages in length
and
will be reviewed by the workshop program committee.


Submission Guidelines
=====================

Middleware 2001 seeks submissions in the following forms:

 * Full technical papers. These should describe original, unpublished
   research or experience and be no longer than 7000 words.
 * Work-in-progress papers. These should describe on-going work and
   interim results. Submissions should be no longer than 2500 words.
 * Posters. Posters can be used to publicize current research
initiatives.
   A 500-word summary of the poster's contents should be submitted.
 * Tutorial proposals. Middleware 2001 aims to include a number of high-

   quality tutorials in areas relevant to the conference themes.
Tutorial
   proposals should be no longer than 1000 words and should include the
   intended audience, duration (full or half day) and speaker
biographies
   for the tutorial.
 * Advanced topic position papers.  These should be 2-4 pages in length.

All technical papers will be reviewed by members of the Program
Committee;
advanced topic position papers will be reviewed by the workshop program
committee.  Full papers accepted for presentation at Middleware 2001
will be
included in the proceedings published by Springer Verlag (LNCS series).

For outstanding full papers and workshop position papers, extended
versions
of selected research papers will be considered for publication in "IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems" and extended versions
of
experience papers will be considered for publication in "Software:
Practice
and Experience".

Work in progress and poster submissions will be made available to
conference
delegates but will not appear in the published proceedings.  Advanced
topic
position papers will be made available to workshop attendees.

Papers must be submitted in Postscript or PDF formats.

Please ensure the first page of your submission includes the paper
title, an
abstract and the address, telephone, FAX and email of the primary
contact
person and that the nature of your submission (full paper,
work-in-progress
paper etc.) is clearly identified. Conference information and style
guidelines for submissions will be available soon at

        http://www.labs.agilent.com/middleware2001

Further information may be obtained from the program chair, the tutorial

chair, the works-in-progress chair, or the workshop chair.

Important dates
===============

07 May 2001  regular paper abstract
15 May 2001  full regular paper
15 June 2001 tutorial proposal
15 June 2001 work in progress paper
15 June 2001 poster proposal
15 June 2001 workshop position paper

Notification by: 07 July 2001
Final versions due by: 07 August 2001
Conference convenes: 12-16 November 2001


Organization
============

General Chair
-------------
Joe Sventek, Agilent Laboratories, Scotland.


WIP and Poster Chair
--------------------
Maartin van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands.

Tutorials Chair
---------------
Frank Buschmann, Siemens AG, Germany.

Publicity Chair
---------------
Joe Sventek, Agilent Laboratories, Scotland.

Advanced Workshop Chair
-----------------------
Guruduth Banavar, IBM, USA.

Local Arrangements Chair
------------------------
Alex Buchmann, Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany.

Steering Committee
------------------
Partha Dasgupta, Arizona State University, USA.
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK.
Jan de Meer (chair), GMD-Fokus, Germany.
Guy LeDuc, University of Liege, Belgium.
Kerry Raymond, DSTC, Australia.
Alexander Schill, TU Dresden, Germany.
Jacob Slonim, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Program Chair
-------------
Rachid Guerraoui, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland.

Program Committee
-----------------
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Jean Bacon, Cambridge University, UK.
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK.
Pascal Felber, Bell Labs, USA.
Jean-Charle Fabre, Laas-CNRS, France.
Svend Frolund, HP Labs, USA.
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College, UK.
Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA.
Yennun Huang, AT&T Labs, USA.
Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Microsoft Research, UK.
Doug Lea, SUNY at Oswego, USA.
Christoph Liebig, Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany.
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Universitaet Muenchen, Germany.
Louise Moser, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Silvano Maffeis, Softwired Inc., Switzerland.
Fabio Panzieri, Universita' di Bologna, Italy.
Luis Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Isabelle Rouvellou, IBM, USA.
Jean-Bernard Stefani, France Telecom R&D, Grenoble, France.
Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle University, UK.
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia.
Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies, USA.
Werner Vogels, Cornell University, USA.
Gregor von Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada.
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
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