Date : 2007
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-3-540-76778-7
Systèmes d'exploitation (ordinateurs)
Classification Dewey : 004.6
Classification Dewey : 004
Résumé / Abstract : Nowadays, middleware technologies are the main infrastructure to support the development and execution of distributed systems, providing design - stractions, programming models and tools, frameworks, protocols, deployment mechanisms, and runtime services. Due to its broad scope, middleware research encompassesdi?erent researchareas,such as distributed systems,operating s- tems, networking, multimedia systems, databases, programming languages, and software engineering. This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Middleware Conference, held in Newport Beach, California, USA, November 26–30, 2007. Middleware is a series of conferences that started in 1998 with the aim of being the p- mier conference on middleware research and technology, where researchers from academiaandindustrycanpresentanddiscussthelatestmiddlewareresults.The focus of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and eva- ation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future computing environments. This year, we had 108 submissions from 25 di?erent countries, among which the top 22 papers were selected for inclusion in the technical program of the conference. All papers were evaluated by at least three reviewers with respect to their originality, technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the c- ferencethemes. Theselectedpapers presentthe latestresults andbreakthroughs on middleware research in areas including peer-to-peer computing, event-based and publish/subscribe architectures, mobile and ubiquitous systems, grid and cluster computing, sensor networks, component- and Web-based middleware, virtual machines, adaptive and autonomic systems, communication protocols and architectures, scalability, fault-tolerance, quality-of-service, resource m- agement, multimedia streaming, and novel development paradigms and tools. Middleware2007alsofeaturedanExperiencePaperssession,whichconsisted of papers with focus on applications and experience from the use of middleware