[AISWorld] Call for Participation: The 18th International ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference

[Vatche Ishakian]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

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The 18th International ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference



We would like to invite you to participate in Middleware 2017 at Las Vegas,
USA. We have an exciting program lined up this year; in addition to a
strong research and industry track, keynotes, posters/demos, and doctoral
symposium, Middleware’17 will feature SEVEN workshops, and FOUR tutorials
on emerging research topics. We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!





Program Overview

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http://2017.middleware-conference.org/overview.html



Keynotes -- MAIN CONFERENCE

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Performance SLAs for Cloud Data Analytics.

Magdalena Balazinska, Jean Loup Baer Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering, University of Washington



Toward intelligent cloud platforms: the Resource Central experience.

Ricardo Bianchini, Chief Efficiency Strategist at Microsoft and Manager of
the Systems Research Group at MSR Redmond



Workshops

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Middleware 2017 will host a number of high quality workshops on recently
emerging research areas with keynotes by leading industry and academic
experts, including:



Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University;



Michael Behrendt, IBM Distinguished Engineer; and



Marc Brooker, Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon AWS.



All workshops will be held before the main conference on December 11th
(Monday) and 12th (Tuesday).



Active: International Workshop on Active Middleware on Modern Hardware

https://active-conf.github.io/



ARM: Adaptive and Reflective Middleware

https://cps-vo.org/group/ARM2017/program



DIDL: Workshop on Distributed Infrastructures for Deep Learning

https://didl-conf.github.io/



M4IoT: Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things

http://www.m4iot.org/



MECC: Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets

http://mecc2017.dcc.fc.up.pt/



SERIAL: ScalablE and Resilient InfrAstructures for distributed Ledgers

https://serial17.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/programme.html



WoSC: Workshop on Serverless Computing

http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/#program



Tutorials

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High Performance Network Middleware with Intel DPDK and OpenNetVM

Tim Wood, George Washington University



Istio Service mesh for more robust, secure and easy to manage microservices

Ed Snible, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Fabio Oliveira, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center



SMACK stack 101: Building Fast Data stacks

Jörg Schad, Mesosphere



Trusted Execution of Software using Intel SGX

Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany

Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, United Kingdom