Call for Research Papers
The annual ACM/IFIP 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. 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.
Important Dates
Update due to COVID-19: To provide authors with additional time to prepare their papers, we are extending the submission deadline for the Research papers by two weeks.
| Abstract Submission | Wednesday, May 13, 2020 May 27, 2020 |
| Paper Submission | Wednesday, May 20, 2020 June 3, 2020 |
| Author Response Period (rebuttal) | August 2-7, 2020 August 10-13, 2020 |
| Notification | Friday, August 28, 2020 |
| Camera Ready Deadline | Friday, September 22, 2020 |
All deadlines are 23:59 AOE.
Topics
Original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the interest for the conference include, but are not limited to:
- Cloud and data centers
- Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
- Data-intensive computing (big data) and data analytics
- Stream Processing
- Machine learning
- Mobile and pervasive systems and services
- Internet-of-Things, smart cities
- Fog, Edge computing
- Cyber-physical and Real-time systems
- Energy and power-aware techniques
- Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions
- Networking, network function virtualization, software-defined networking
- Multimedia Systems
- Fault tolerance and Consistency
- Blockchains
- Security and privacy
- Monitoring, resource management and analysis
- Middleware Design principles
- Programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware
- Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches
- Reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc.
- Methodologies and tools for design, implementation, verification, and evaluation
Original papers of three types are sought:
- Research Papers: These papers report original research on the above topics, and will be evaluated on significance of the problem, novelty of the solution, advancement beyond prior work, sufficient supporting evidence and clarity of the presentation.
- Experimentation and Deployment Papers: These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and/or comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned.
- Big Ideas Papers: These are papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important.
Submission Guidelines
Submitted papers must have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, and appendices, but excluding any number of additional pages for bibliographic references. Note that submissions must be double-blind: authors’ names must not appear, and authors must make a good faith attempt to anonymize their submissions. Submitted papers must adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM SIGPLAN style, which can found on the ACM template page. The font size has to be set to 10pt.
The Middleware 2020 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date will be the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library which may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the Middleware conference. Note that the official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Please submit papers to https://middleware20.hotcrp.com.
Software and Data Artifact Availability for Accepted Papers
The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to be made publicly available as “source materials” in the ACM Digital Library. The materials will be vetted by the Artifact Availability Evaluation process run by a separate committee. This submission is voluntary but encouraged and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Availability Evaluation process successfully and are made available in the ACM Digital Library will receive a badge printed on the papers themselves.
Note to Authors
By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights:
- to publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor
- to digitize and post your article in the electronic version of this publication
- to include the article in the ACM Digital Library and any Digital Library related services
- to allow users to make a personal copy of the article for non-commercial, educational or research purposes
However, as a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will refer requests for republication directly to you.
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.