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		MNA 2011   Part of ITNG 2011 April 11-13, 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ** Submission deadline extended to October 30, 2010 ** Proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services-CPS Authors of selected presented papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue    Impact Factor: 1.004  CORE Rank  A     Past Events     MNA 2010     Middleware Track 09		With the recent advances in network technologies, there has been a growing interest in new network applications such as cloud applications, ubiquitous applications, and sensor applications. The development of these applications is usually not trivial and faces a number of challenges. These challenges are relaxed with the existence of enabling techniques such as advanced middleware services. Middleware technologies had evolved tremendously over the past decade from simple support techniques for applications integration to a field of its own. The latest advances and innovations in middleware research, design and utilization highlighted great expansion of the middleware field. This symposium is designed to combine the network applications and middleware development communities to discuss and highlight the latest advancements in both network applications and enabling middleware technologies. Original work and contributions in network applications and middleware concepts, design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation are sought.   Topics: Topics of interest included, but are not limited to, the following:   Middleware Issues: Social-aware middleware Power-aware middleware Security middleware Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches Middleware solutions for reliability, fault tolerance, and quality-of-service Scalability of middleware Context-aware middleware Autonomic and self-managing middleware Evaluation techniques for middleware solutions Formal methods and tools for designing, verifying, and evaluating middleware Software engineering techniques for middleware Service oriented middleware Agent-based middleware   Domain-Specific Middleware: Middleware for web services RFID and sensor networks middleware Nano-middleware Middleware for cluster, grid, and cloud computing Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing Middleware solutions for large scale distributed databases Middleware for robotics Middleware for WiMax and mesh networks Smart spaces middleware Middleware for personal area network Application servers Vehicular systems middleware   Network Applications: Body and Personal Area Network Applications Cloud applications Emergency responses networked systems Ubiquitous and pervasive applications  Collaborative applications RFID and sensor network applications Ultra-wideband applications Mobile applications Smart home applications Infrastructure monitoring and control applications Remote health monitoring GPS and location-based applications Networked vehicles applications Alert applications   Network Applications Issues: Application specific protocols Network applications management Network-based automation Critical infrastructure networks Fault-tolerance for network applications Real-time issues for network applications Industrial networks  Network support for multi-player gaming Highly available networks Networks for grid and cluster computing Software engineering for network applications Social networks                     Back Up      Paper Submission: Papers must represent high quality and previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Your submission should include the author names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the email addresses of the authors. Interested authors should submit a maximum of 6 pages of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords. Paper Format Instructions Submit your paper Electronically here  (Please select 2nd Symposium on Middleware) Evaluation Process: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by The IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services-CPS and available on the IEEE digital library.     Important Dates: Submission :                    October 15, 2010   extended to  October 30, 2010 Author Notification:          November 26, 2010 Advance Registration:    January 12, 2011 Camera Ready:               February 4, 2011         Back Up   Symposium Chairs: Jameela Al-Jaroodi, UAEU, UAE,  j.aljaroodi@uaeu.ac.ae Nader Mohamed, UAEU, UAE,  nader.m@uaeu.ac.ae   Technical Program Committee: Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway Faheem Ahmed, UAEU, UAE Hend S. Alqamzi, UAEU, UAE Bassel Arafeh, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Wan D. Bae, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA Janaka Balasooriya, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Doina Bein, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy Bo Cheng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Gabriele D'Angelo, University of Bologna, Italy Akshay V. Dabholkar, Vanderbilt University, USA Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy Thomas DuBois, The Boeing Company, USA Abdulla Eid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Badidi Elarbi, UAEU, UAE Gledson Elias, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil Homam Reda El-Taj, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Mohammed Erradi, Mohamed V Souissi University, Morocco Filippo Gandino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Víctor Manuel Álvarez García, University of Oviedo, Spain Laurent Gomez, SAP Research, France Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Sven Graupner, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Asrar Haque, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Philip Hartman, IBM Global Business Services, USA. Wouter Horré,  K.U. Leuven, Belgium I-Ching Hsu, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA Danny Hughes, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Christophe Huygens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Hamidah Ibrahim, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Nader Kesserwan, UAEU, UAE Panayiotis Koutsabasis, University of the Aegean, Greece Masaud Jahromi, Ahlia University, Bahrain Imad Jawhar, UAEU, UAE Fang-Yie Leu, TungHai University, Taiwan Xuli Liu, University of Nebraska Kearney, USA M-Puerto Paule, University of Oviedo, Spain Dennis Pfisterer, University of Luebeck, Germany Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands Praveen Madiraju, Marquette University, USA Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA Sadananda Narayanappa, Jeppesen, A Boeing Company, USA Mais Wasef Nijim, USA Tomi Räty, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait Suresh Sankaranarayanan, University of WestIndies, Jamaica Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Mohamed Adel Serhani, UAEU, UAE Yicong Zhou, Tufts University, USA Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA         Back Up