<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"></span></span></span></b><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call]<br></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><br class="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></div><div class="" align="center" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; 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font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #330033;" data-mce-style="color: #330033;"><span class="Object" style="color: #00008b; cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="color: #00008b; cursor: pointer;"><span class="" style="cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" style="cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="cursor: pointer;"><br></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;">As with previous Middleware conferences, Middleware 2018 will host a number of high quality workshops. Please refer to the workshop websites below for submission deadlines, topics, and contact information. All workshops will be held before the main conference on December 10th (Monday) and 11th (Tuesday).</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span><div><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">ARM: <span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-style="color: #000000;">17th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflexive Middleware</span></span></b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">ARM aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and on the challenging problems that remain unsolved.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">Deadline for abstract submission: </span><u>August 10, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Deadline for paper submission: <u>August 20, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Notification of acceptance: <u>September 10, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <u>October 12, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><u><br></u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="http://cedric.cnam.fr/arm/" target="_blank">http://cedric.cnam.fr/arm/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><b>BigStream: 1st International Workshop on Big Data Stream Processing</b></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><b><br></b>Recent years have witnessed unprecedented amounts of data being generated from different hardware or software in the form of streams of data. This workshop provides a forum for people in both academia and industry to present their most recent work and to foster exchange of new ideas in the area of big data streams.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>August 31, 2018</u> <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>September 28, 2018</u> <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>October 19, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><u><br></u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="https://bigstream-workshop.github.io" target="_blank">https://bigstream-workshop.github.io</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">DIDL: 3rd Workshop on Distributed Infrastructures for Deep Learning</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">This workshop focuses on the tools, frameworks, and algorithms to support executing deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. As new hardware and accelerators become available, the middleware and systems need to be able exploit their capabilities and ensure they are utilized efficiently.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <u>August 31, 2018</u></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <u>September 28, 2018</u></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <u>October 19, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at:</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;"> <a href="https://didl-conf.github.io" target="_blank">https://didl-conf.github.io</a></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">M4IoT: 5th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new services and applications across various domains, including smart electricity grids, intelligent transportation, healthcare, smart homes, and energy management. This workshop focuses on (i) the middleware to compose IoT applications, services, and devices; and (ii) the applications built on top of such middleware.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> </span><u>September 12, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> </span><u>October 10, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> </span><u>October 19, 2018</u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><u><br></u></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at:</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"> <a href="http://www.m4iot.org" target="_blank">http://www.m4iot.org</a></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">MECC: 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) workshop aims to address the increasing need for closer integration between the different tiers on modern cloud computing platforms.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u>August 31, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>September 28, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u>October 15, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt" target="_blank">http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></strong></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">SERIAL: 2nd Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">This workshop investigates system support to foster resilience and scalability of decentralized infrastructures such as distributed ledger ecosystems but also addresses resilience support for more traditional Internet-based services.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>August 31, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"> <u>September 28, 2018</u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><u><br></u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="https://serial18.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de" target="_blank">https://serial18.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de</a></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;">==========================================</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">W-GCS: 1st Workshop on GDPR Compliant Systems</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">The goal of this workshop is to provide a common forum to discuss the new research challenges being raised by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and worldwide.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <u>September 7, 2018</u>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <u>September 21, 2018</u>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <u>October 19, 2018</u></span></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: normal; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="http://wgcs.inesctec.pt" target="_blank">http://wgcs.inesctec.pt</a></span></pre></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;">Doctoral symposium</strong></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"></b><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">The doctoral 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.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Deadline for paper submission:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u>September 25, 2018</u></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Notification of acceptance: <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u>October 12, 2018</u></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Camera-ready due:</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u>October 25, 2018</u></span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><u><br></u></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">More informations at: <a href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/" target="_blank">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;">==========================================</span></span></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;"><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></span></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;">Call for Demos and Posters</span></span></strong></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></span></strong></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Middleware 2018 will provide a forum for live software demonstrations of middleware applications, systems, and tools. Demos could take a wide and open-ended variety of forms. Typical examples include: (i) presentation of an application that leverages advanced middleware concepts, (ii) working through coding of an example on a novel middleware platform, or (iii) real-time visualizations of middleware system metrics under simulated workloads. Although the form may vary, demo presenters should take advantage of not being constrained by the format of a traditional slide presentation. Demos are encouraged for both early prototypes and mature technology. Posters will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview late-breaking research results. Poster sessions will provide an informal setting for presenters to communicate ideas or results and also to collect feedback from attendees. Demo or poster contributions are solicited in all areas of middleware research and applications. For a list of applicable topics, please consider those from the call for papers.</span></span></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></span></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px;">Deadline for submission: <span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">September 07, 2018</span></span></span></div><div data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face="Arial" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">More information at: <a href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-demos-and-posters/" data-mce-href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-demos-and-posters/">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-demos-and-posters/</a></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-mce-style="background-color: #fdfdfd; font-size: 14px;" style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); font-size: 14px;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: Arial;" style="font-family: Arial;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>