EAN: 9783642104442

MIDDLEWARE 2009 - GUSTAVO ALONSO ANDREW BAUMANN...

This edition marks the tenth Middleware conference. The ?rst conference was held in the Lake
District of England in 1998  and its genesis re?ected a growing realization that middleware
systems were a unique breed of distributed system requiring their own rigorous research and
evaluation. Distributed systems had been around for decades  and the Middleware conference
itself resulted from the combination of three previous conferences. But the attempt to build
common platforms for many di?erent applications requireda unique combinationofhi- level
abstraction and low-level optimization  and presented challenges di?erent from building a
monolithic distributed system. Since that ?rst conference  the notion of what constitutes
middleware has changed somewhat  and the focus of research papers has changed with it. The ?rst
edition focused heavily on distributed objects as a metaphor for building systems  including
six papers with CORBA or ORB in the title. In f- lowing years  the conference broadened to
cover publish subscribe messaging  peer-to-peer systems  distributed databases  Web services 
and automated m- agement  among other topics. Innovative techniques and architectures surfaced
in workshops  and expanded to become themes of the main conference  while changes in the
industry and advances in other research areas helped to shape research agendas. This tenth
edition includes papers on next-generation pl- forms (such as stream systems  pervasive systems
and cloud systems)  managing enterprise data centers  and platforms for building other
platforms  among o- ers.

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