[Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation

[Benjamin Camus]

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ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation 
[ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org ] Rennes, France; Dec [ callto:10 - 14 | 10 - 14 ] , 2018 


Dear colleagues, the registrations for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference are now open. 
Information are available at [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ ] 

Early registration deadline: October 31st, 2018 

The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX 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. 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. 

Conference Highlights: 


    * High-quality single-track technical program (the list of accepted regular papers is available at [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ ] ) 
    * Industry track 
    * Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin Gün Sirer 
    * Best paper award presentation 
    * High-quality tutorials and workshops 
    * Posters and demos sessions 
    * 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 
    * Student travel grants 

Conference Venue 
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 : 


    * Le Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe 
    * Saint-Malo a famous walled corsair city 
    * Cancale a port city known for its oysters. 

Organization Committee 

General chair 
Guillaume Pierre , Univ. Rennes, France 

Program chairs 
Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal 
Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA 

Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair 
Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 

Industry track chairs 
Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland 
Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France 

Workshops/tutorials chairs 
Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA 
Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece 

Posters/demos chairs 
Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA 
Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland 

Doctoral symposium chairs 
Laurent Réveillère, Université de Bordeaux, France 
Luís Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal 

Test-of-Time award chair 
Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA 

Sponsor chair 
Christine Morin, Inria, France 

Local arrangements chair 
David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France 

Proceedings chair 
Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

Communication chair 
François Taïani, Univ. Rennes, France 

Web and social media chair 
Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France 

Publicity chairs 
Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA 
Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France 
Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden 

Student activities chair 
Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France 
Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA 
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