<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call]</span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div></span><br><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"><div style="font-weight: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation</span><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1804_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1820_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT301_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT310_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://2018.middleware-conference.org</a></span></span></span></span> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Rennes, France; Dec <span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT302_com_zimbra_phone" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><a href="callto:10 - 14" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">10 - 14</a></span>, 2018</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dear colleagues, the registrations for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference are now open. </div><div>Information are available at <a href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/" data-mce-href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/</a><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early registration deadline:</span> October 31st, 2018</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="DWT2447" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2462" class="ZmSearchResult">Middleware</span></span> conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of <span id="DWT2449" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT2464" class="ZmSearchResult">middleware</span></span> </span>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.<br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><strong>Conference Highlights:</strong></div><ul style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><li>High-quality single-track technical program <span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">(the list of accepted regular papers is available at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);"></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1855_com_zimbra_url" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1880_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT303_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" role="link" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT311_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/</a></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">)</span></li><li>Industry track</li><li>Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin Gün Sirer</li><li>Best paper award presentation</li><li>High-quality tutorials and workshops</li><li>Posters and demos sessions</li><li>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</li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Student travel grants </span></li></ul><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Conference Venue<br></span></strong></div><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">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 : </span></div><ul style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Le Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe</span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Saint-Malo a famous walled corsair city<br></span></li><li><span style="background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253);">Cancale a port city known for its oysters.</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14.15999984741211px;"><div><strong>Organization Committee</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>General chair</strong></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="DWT305" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT313" class="ZmSearchResult">Guillaume</span></span> <span id="DWT307" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT315" class="ZmSearchResult">Pierre</span></span>,</span> Univ. Rennes, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Program chairs</strong></div><div>Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal<br></div><div>Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair</strong></div><div>Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Industry track chairs</strong></div><div>Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland<br></div><div>Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Workshops/tutorials chairs</strong></div><div>Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA<br></div><div>Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Posters/demos chairs</strong></div><div>Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA<br></div><div>Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Doctoral symposium chairs</strong></div><div>Laurent Réveillère, Université de Bordeaux, France<br></div><div>Luís Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Test-of-Time award chair</strong></div><div>Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Sponsor chair</strong></div><div>Christine Morin, Inria, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Local arrangements chair</strong></div><div>David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Proceedings chair</strong></div><div>Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Communication chair</strong></div><div>François Taïani, Univ. Rennes, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Web and social media chair</strong></div><div>Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Publicity chairs</strong></div><div>Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA<br></div><div>Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France</div><div>Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Student activities chair</strong></div><div>Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France<br></div><div>Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>