MNA 2011 - 2nd Symposium on Middleware and Network Applications

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Category MNA 2011

Deadline: October 15, 2010 | Date: April 11, 2011-April 13, 2011

Venue/Country: Las Vegas, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-29 09:16:39 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

This symposium is designed to combine the network applications and middleware development communities to discuss and highlight the latest advancements in both network applications and enabling middleware technologies. Original work and contributions in network applications and middleware concepts, design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation are sought.

Topics:

Topics of interest included, but are not limited to, the following:

Middleware Issues:

Social-aware middleware

Power-aware middleware

Security middleware

Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware

Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches

Middleware solutions for reliability, fault tolerance, and quality-of-service

Scalability of middleware

Context-aware middleware

Autonomic and self-managing middleware

Evaluation techniques for middleware solutions

Formal methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating middleware

Software engineering techniques for middleware

Service oriented middleware

Agent-based middleware

Domain-Specific Middleware:

Middleware for web services

RFID and sensor networks middleware

Nano-middleware

Middleware for cluster, grid, and cloud computing

Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing

Middleware solutions for large scale distributed databases

Middleware for robotics

Middleware for WiMax and mesh networks

Smart spaces middleware

Middleware for personal area network

Application servers

Vehicular systems middleware

Network Applications:

Body and Personal Area Network Applications

Cloud applications

Emergency responses networked systems

Ubiquitous and pervasive applications

Collaborative applications

RFID and sensor network applications

Ultra-wideband applications

Mobile applications

Smart home applications

Infrastructure monitoring and control applications

Remote health monitoring

GPS and location-based applications

Networked vehicles applications

Alert applications

Network Applications Issues:

Application specific protocols

Network applications management

Network-based automation

Critical infrastructure networks

Fault-tolerance for network applications

Real-time issues for network applications

Industrial networks

Network support for multi-player gaming

Highly available networks

Networks for grid and cluster computing

Software engineering for network applications

Social networks

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Paper Submission:

Papers must represent high quality and previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Your submission should include the author names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the email addresses of the authors. Interested authors should submit a maximum of 6 pages of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords.

Paper Format Instructions

Submit your paper Electronically here (Please select middleware symposium)

Evaluation Process:

Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by The IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services-CPS and available on the IEEE digital library.

Important Dates:

Submission : October 15, 2010

Author Notification: November 26, 2010

Advance Registration: January 12, 2011

Camera Ready: February 4, 2011

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Symposium Chairs:

Jameela Al-Jaroodi, UAEU, UAE, j.aljaroodiuaeu.ac.ae

Nader Mohamed, UAEU, UAE, nader.muaeu.ac.ae

Technical Program Committee:

Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway

Faheem Ahmed, UAEU, UAE

Hend S. Alqamzi, UAEU, UAE

Bassel Arafeh, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Wan D. Bae, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA

Janaka Balasooriya, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Doina Bein, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy

Bo Cheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Gabriele D'Angelo, University of Bologna, Italy

Akshay V. Dabholkar, Vanderbilt University, USA

Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy

Thomas DuBois, The Boeing Company, USA

Badidi Elarbi, UAEU, UAE

Gledson Elias, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil

Homam Reda El-Taj, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Mohammed Erradi, Mohamed V Souissi University, Morocco

Filippo Gandino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Víctor Manuel Álvarez García, University of Oviedo, Spain

Laurent Gomez, SAP Research, France

Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA

Sven Graupner, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada

Asrar Haque, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

Philip Hartman, IBM Global Business Services, USA.

Wouter Horré, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

I-Ching Hsu, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan

Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA

Danny Hughes, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Christophe Huygens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

Hamidah Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Nader Kesserwan, UAEU, UAE

Panayiotis Koutsabasis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Masaud Jahromi, Ahlia University, Bahrain

Imad Jawhar, UAEU, UAE

Fang-Yie Leu, TungHai University, Taiwan

Xuli Liu, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA

M-Puerto Paule, University of Oviedo, Spain

Dennis Pfisterer, University of Luebeck, Germany

Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands

Praveen Madiraju, Marquette University, USA

Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA

Sadananda Narayanappa, Jeppesen, A Boeing Company, USA

Mais Wasef Nijim, USA

Tomi Räty, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

Mohamed Adel Serhani, UAEU, UAE

Yicong Zhou, Tufts University, USA

Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA