<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call]<br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br class="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"></div><div class="" align="center" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><b class="">ACM/IFIP/USE<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">NIX <span id="DWT1001" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT1061" class="ZmSearchResult">Middleware</span></span> 201</span>8 Conference - </b></span><font face="helvetica"><b>Call for Industry Track Papers</b></font><br class=""><span color="#336699" face="helvetica" data-mce-style="color: #336699; font-family: helvetica;" style="color: #336699; font-family: helvetica;">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-industry-track-papers/</span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Rennes, France; D<span color="#330033" data-mce-style="color: #330033;" style="color: #330033;">ec </span><span color="#330033"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT569_com_zimbra_phone" style="cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="" style="cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1003_com_zimbra_phone" style="cursor: pointer;" data-mce-style="cursor: pointer;">10 - 14, 2018</span></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></b></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></b></span></div><div class=""><br></div><div class=""><b class=""><b style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;">Key Dates</b></b><br></div><div class="">Paper submissions: <span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">August 18, 2018</span></div><div class="">Reviews due & online discussion: <span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">September 24, 2018</span><br></div><div class="">Author notification: <span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">September 30, 2018</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div class="">Camera-ready paper: <span style="text-decoration: underline;" data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">October 27, 2018</span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div class=""><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"><b>Call for Papers</b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"><br></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;">The Industrial Track of the <span id="DWT1012" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT1071" class="ZmSearchResult">Middleware</span></span> 2018 Conference solicits 6-page papers for presentation during the main conference (single track) and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. The topics of interest are similar to those in the general conference call for papers. However, the purpose of the Industrial Track is to emphasize the practical issues, observations, and measurements of “real-world” systems and applications and to disseminate information of particular interest to <span id="DWT1014" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT1073" class="ZmSearchResult">middleware</span></span> researchers, architects, developers and administrators. </span><br></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Topics -</strong> the topics of the industry track include, but are not limited to:</div><ul><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience reports and measurements relating to</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Deployments of Internet-scale environments, including grids, datacenters, and other large-scale systems</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Cloud computing middleware, for Infrastructure/Platform/Application as a Service Quality of service, quality of user experience</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Scalability issues (e.g., observed real-life workloads and applications)</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Reliability and availability issues (observed real-life faults, fault models, and recovery mechanisms)</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Security issues (e.g., real attacks on deployed platforms and their impacts)</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Middleware in big data and machine learning systems and applications</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Deployments of embedded systems, sensor networks and Internet of Things</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Deployments of blockchain-based middleware and applications</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Approaches, mechanisms and tools for</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Real-life deployment, e.g., hardware equipment management (installation, updates, replacement), management of data center buildings, network points of presence, “data center in-a- box”</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">DevOps, continuous software development, integration, and delivery</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Operation and maintenance, e.g., install and upgrade, bug fixes, and backup</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Runtime management, e.g., monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and remediation</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Economic, energy-aware, and environmental analyses (e.g. cost and/or energy impacts of various data center deployment models)</li><li data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Security management, e.g., intrusion detection, and key management</li></ul><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"><b>Submission Guidelines</b></span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><div>A submission must be a single PDF file conforming to the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format and must not exceed 6 pages (including abstract, figures, tables, and appendices, but excluding references). Submissions must be in English. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines or that violate formatting will be declined without review. Reviewing is single-blind; papers must include author names and affiliations. Authors are required to add “(industry track)” at the end of their paper title.</div><div> </div><div>Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Industrial Track Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, technical soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work. The committee as a whole will make final decisions about which submissions to accept for presentation at the conference.</div><div> </div><div>Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. The conference organizers, like those of other scientific conferences and journals, prohibit these practices and may take actions against authors who have committed them. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets the guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs. </div><div> </div><div>By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present the paper in person.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"><b>General chair</b><br>Guillaume Pierre, Univ. Rennes, France</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica;"><b>Program Chairs </b></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><div>Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland</div><div>Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&I, France</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Program Committee</strong></div><div>Robert Birke, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland<br></div><div>Daniele Bonetta, Oracle, USA</div><div>Antoine Boutet, INSA-Lyon, France</div><div>Ruichuan Chen, Bell Labs, Germany</div><div>Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK</div><div>Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs, France</div><div>Ioana Giurgiu, IBM, Switzerland</div><div>Vincent Gramoli, NICTA/Data61-CSIRO and University of Sydney, Australia</div><div>Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research, USA</div><div>Nicolas Le Scouarnec, Technicolor, France</div><div>Padmanabhan Pillai, Intel Labs, USA</div><div>Jan Rellermeyer, TU Delft, Nederlands</div><div>Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA</div><div>Maja Vukovic, IBM, USA</div><div>Chen Wang, VMWare, USA</div><div>Xiaoyun Zhu, HyperPilot, USA</div></div></div></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-family: helvetica;" data-mce-style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></span></div></div></body></html>