33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Seattle,Washington, July 20 - July 24, 2009            Co-located with IPSJ/IEEE SAINT 2009

IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMPSAC 2009

Research in middleware systems has evolved from simple client server models to distributed systems, peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, mobile devices, service oriented computing, grid computing, agent based computing, smart devices, and sensors. Each of the above areas in distributed computing, peer-to-peer computing, service oriented computing, sensor networks, grid computing, agent based computing and smart devices poses its own unique challenges in the design, development and deployment of middleware, its components and applications using such middleware.
We solicit papers dealing with design, development and deployment of middleware and its systems. We are also interested in specific components of middleware systems, the way they interact with other modules, components design and development, models of the components, middleware system issues and also novel applications using middleware systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Research papers as well as papers reporting practical experiences and applications of the above topics are all welcome.

Researchers and practitioners working in middleware systems with topics ranging from different areas such as distributed computing, grid computing, service oriented computing, pervasive computing, P2P computing, agent based systems and sensor networks are invited to propose papers and attend the workshop. The aim is to bring all of them under one roof with an aim of encouraging exchange of ideas and experiences among these diverse communities.

Janaka Balasooriya, Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, USA
Doina Bein, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Filip Blagojevic, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Suren Byna, Illinois Institute of Technology/Argonne National Lab, USA
Yong Chen, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Matthew Curtis-Maury, netapp, USA
Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Akshaye Dhawan, Georgia State University, USA
Xizhou Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada
Hamidah Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Wei Jie, University of Manchester, UK
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Srilaxmi Malladi, Georgia State University, USA
Nader Mohamed, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Moushumi Sharmin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Eli Tilevich, Virginia Tech, USA
Karthikeyan Umapathy, University of North Florida, USA
Dianxiang Xu, North Dakota State University, USA
Huashan Yu, Peking University, China
Farahana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada

All submissions must be made through the ME2009 submission siteSubmissions must be original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or journals.

The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for IEEE conference proceedings available at : ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/(look for instruct8.5x11.doc,instruct8.5x11.pdf). The paper should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE paper format including all figures, tables, and references.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009) by IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed through INSPEC and EI Index (Elsevier's Engineering Information Index), and automatically included in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of COMPSAC for the paper to be included in the proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented in person by an author.

Rong Ge Department of Math, Stat, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA, Canada Email: rong.ge@marquette.edu http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~rge/

Praveen Madiraju Department of Math, Stat, and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA, Canada Email: praveen@mscs.mu.edu http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~praveen

GENERAL INQUIRIES

Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact any of the program chairs at:

rong.ge@marquette.edu or praveen@mscs.mu.edu

For COMPSAC, please visit http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2009/