[Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] 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 _______________________________________________ Storage-research-list mailing list Storage-research-list(a)ece.cmu.edu https://lists.ece.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/storage-research-list