Introduction to the 1st International Middleware Doctoral Symposium

Abstract

Symposium GoalThe inaugural International Middleware Doctoral Symposium is a forum for an invited group of doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to provide contact with other students at a similar stage in their careers. Mentors at the symposium are senior university or industry researchers, e.g., current or former members of the Middleware program committee. The goal of the symposium is to expose students to helpful criticism before their thesis defense, and to foster discussions related to future career perspectives. Mentors provide constructive criticism on the current work, and give advice for possible future direction and focus. A similar series of doctoral symposia is held in connection with the OOPSLA and ECOOP conferences.The symposium consists of a full-day workshop followed by an informal dinner. Participants will also present a poster at the conference poster session, providing further opportunity for additional feedback and experience in communicating with other researchers. Students at the beginning of their research, who are interested in learning about structuring research and obtaining research direction, are welcome to attend the symposium as observers. We would like to give a special thanks to all the mentors for their time and effort attending the symposium and providing constructive reviews.Edward Curry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USADoctoral CandidatesThe symposium attracted a large number of high quality submissions ensuring a competitive selection process. The following 8 doctoral candidates were selected to present their work at the symposium:Gorka Guardiola - CUROCO: A Distributed Architecture for the Dynamic Generation, Composition and use of Context in Highly Dynamic and HeterogeneousSwaminathan Sivasubramanian - Adaptive Replication for Web ApplicationsEnrique Soriano - SHAD: A Human Centered Security Architecture for Partitionable, Dynamic and Heterogeneous Distributed SystemsDaniel Oberle - Semantic Management of MiddlewareMirco Musolesi - Designing a Context-aware Middleware for Asynchronous Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc EnvironmentsRaul Silaghi - MDA Refinements Along Middleware-Specific Concern DimensionsPatricia Kayser Vargas - Application Partitioning and Hierarchical Management in Grid Environments: status and feedbackEtienne Schneider - Dynamic Reconfiguration through OSA+1, a Real-Time MiddlewareMentor CommitteeGul Agha, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USAGeoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UKDoug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USAKlara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USARick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USAStefan Tai, IBM T.J. Watson, USANalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USAWerner Vogels, Cornell University, USAAcknowledgementsThe support of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN) Technologies is gratefully acknowledged.