[Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for
Participation
by Benjamin Camus
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ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation
[ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org ] Rennes, France; Dec [ callto:10 - 14 | 10 - 14 ] , 2018
Dear colleagues, 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 regular papers is available at [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ ] )
* Industry track
* Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin Gün Sirer
* Best paper 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
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[Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for
Doctoral Symposium Papers and Student Travel Grant applications
by Benjamin Camus
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ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Student Travel Grant applications
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Rennes, France; Dec [ callto:10 - 14, 2018 | 10 - 14, 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.
This call is specifically meant for doctoral students:
* Call for Doctoral Symposium papers
* Call for Student Grant applications
Key dates:
Doctoral Symposium Paper Submission Deadline: September 25th, 2018
Doctoral Symposium Notification of Acceptance: October 12th, 2018
Doctoral Symposium Camera Ready: October 25th, 2018
Student Grant applications: October 19th, 2018
Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
The doctoral symposium of Middleware 2018 will be held in Rennes, France. Following the tradition of past editions, the symposium provides an international forum that gives PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and with a panel of expert mentors from the middleware field.
The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. Applicants will be divided into two groups:
1. Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 2 pages (including all materials).
2. Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 4 pages (including all materials).
The symposium will provide an informal and welcoming atmosphere in which students from both groups will have the opportunity to discuss their planned goals, their progress and achievements, the key research challenges to overcome, as well as software and tools they are developing.
As part of the symposium, the participating students will receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both industry and academia. The symposium will also be an opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students who are addressing similar topics or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work.
All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the symposium’s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper. Position papers should fit within the topics of Middleware 2018 Call for Papers.
Accepted position papers will be presented during the doctoral symposium, as well as in a poster session during the main program of Middleware 2018. Contributions to the Middleware 2018 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings.
Student Travel Grants
Middleware 2018 has received generous support from sponsors to provide a limited number of student travel grants to the conference. Travel grants are intended to broaden participation at Middleware.
Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority for the grants. Students attending the conference and not presenting a paper at the main conference or workshops are eligible; we encourage such students, including co-authors not presenting the paper, to participate in the conference via poster, demo, and/or doctoral symposium submissions. Student presenters with funding available from their advisors will be given less preference. Middleware also particularly encourages students from traditionally underrepresented groups in computer science to apply.
Due to distinct funding origins, the grants are different for: (1) students located in U.S. institutions, and (2) students located elsewhere. Yet, the application process is the same.
* U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will support grants for students located in U.S. institutions. These grants will be in the range of $1000-$1500, based on applicant need and availability of funds. Note that the travel grants will be in the form of a reimbursement after the expenses have been incurred.
* Sponsors will support grants for students located in non-U.S. institutions (elsewhere on Earth). These grants will cover the registration and the hotel expenses for the full conference. Note that they will be provided before the conference in the form of a free full conference registration and a pre-paid hotel booking in Rennes for the conference duration. Recipients of these grants are expected to arrange and fund travel themselves.
Travel grant applications are due October 19th. To complete the application you must:
* Fill out the application form.
* Ask your advisor to email a recommendation letter to [ mailto:mw18grants@inria.fr | mw18grants(a)inria.fr ] . The recommendation letter should include: (1) The applicant’s status in the institution; (2) An explanation of why the applicant would benefit from attending Middleware as well as how he/she could contribute to the conference; and (3) The applicant’s current funding status and why the applicant is in need of the travel grant.
If you have any questions about the student travel grants, please email the Student Activities Chair, Timothy Wood for U.S. based students, and Anne-Cécile Orgerie for other locations.
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