[AISWorld] 19th International Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation

[Guillaume Pierre]

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<http://2018.middleware-conference.org/>

ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation
http://2018.middleware-conference.org 
<http://2018.middleware-conference.org/> Rennes, France; Dec 10 - 14 
<callto:10%20-%2014>, 2018

The registrations for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference 
are now open.
Information are available at 
http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ 
<http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/>

Early registration deadline: October 31st, 2018

The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for 
the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of 
middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, 
deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and 
architectures for computing, storage, and communication. Highlights of 
the conference will include a high quality single-track technical 
program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions 
involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration 
presentations, a doctoral symposium, tutorials and workshops.

*Conference Highlights:*

  * High-quality single-track technical program (the list of accepted
    papers is available at
    http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/)
  * Industry track
  * Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin Gün Sirer
  * Best paper award presentation
  * Test-ot-Time award presentation
  * High-quality tutorials and workshops
  * Posters and demos sessions
  * A doctoral symposium that gives PhD students an opportunity to
    present and discuss their research with their peers and receive
    valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both
    industry and academia
  * Student travel grants

*Conference Venue
*
The 2018 ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference will be held at the 
IRISA/Inria lab in Rennes, France. Rennes is the historical capital of 
Brittany. It is located about 350km west of Paris and 110km north of 
Nantes. The city is only one hour from the seaside and its impressive 
attractions :

  * Le Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of an
    immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe
  * Saint-Malo a famous walled corsair city
  * Cancale a port city known for its oysters.


*Organization Committee*

*General chair*
Guillaume Pierre, Univ. Rennes, France

*Program chairs*
Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA

*Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair*
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

*Industry track chairs*
Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland
Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France

*Workshops/tutorials chairs*
Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA
Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

*Posters/demos chairs*
Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA
Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland

*Doctoral symposium chairs*
Laurent Réveillère, Université de Bordeaux, France
Luís Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal

*Test-of-Time award chair*
Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA

*Sponsor chair*
Christine Morin, Inria, France

*Local arrangements chair*
David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France

*Proceedings chair*
Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

*Communication chair*
François Taïani, Univ. Rennes, France

*Web and social media chair*
Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France

*Publicity chairs*
Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA
Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France
Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden

*Student activities chair*
Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France
Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA