Middleware 2012

1. Front Matter

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2. Mobile Middleware

   1. CrowdMAC: A Crowdsourcing System for Mobile Access

      • Ngoc Do, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Nalini Venkatasubramanian

      Pages 1-20

   2. Pogo, a Middleware for Mobile Phone Sensing

      • Niels Brouwers, Koen Langendoen

      Pages 21-40

   3. m.Site: Efficient Content Adaptation for Mobile Devices

      • Aaron Koehl, Haining Wang

      Pages 41-60

   4. MORENA: A Middleware for Programming NFC-Enabled Android Applications as Distributed Object-Oriented Programs

      • Andoni Lombide Carreton, Kevin Pinte, Wolfgang De Meuter

      Pages 61-80

3. Tracing and Diagnosis

   1. Fmeter: Extracting Indexable Low-Level System Signatures by Counting Kernel Function Calls

      • Tudor Marian, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ki-Suh Lee, Abhishek Sagar

      Pages 81-100

   2. SPADE: Support for Provenance Auditing in Distributed Environments

      • Ashish Gehani, Dawood Tariq

      Pages 101-120

   3. VScope: Middleware for Troubleshooting Time-Sensitive Data Center Applications

      • Chengwei Wang, Infantdani Abel Rayan, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan, Vanish Talwar, Matthew Wolf et al.

      Pages 121-141

4. Architecture and Performance

   1. SOFTScale: Stealing Opportunistically for Transient Scaling

      • Anshul Gandhi, Timothy Zhu, Mor Harchol-Balter, Michael A. Kozuch

      Pages 142-163

   2. Taking Garbage Collection Overheads Off the Critical Path in SSDs

      • Myoungsoo Jung, Ramya Prabhakar, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir

      Pages 164-186

   3. Unifying Thread-Level Speculation and Transactional Memory

      • João Barreto, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Filipe, Rachid Guerraoui

      Pages 187-207

   4. Message-Passing Concurrency for Scalable, Stateful, Reconfigurable Middleware

      • Cosmin Arad, Jim Dowling, Seif Haridi

      Pages 208-228

   5. OverStar: An Open Approach to End-to-End Middleware Services in Systems of Systems

      • Paul Grace, Yérom-David Bromberg, Laurent Réveillère, Gordon Blair

      Pages 229-248

5. Publish/Subscribe Middleware

   1. Opportunistic Multipath Forwarding in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Overlays

      • Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh, Hans-Arno Jacobsen

      Pages 249-270

   2. PolderCast: Fast, Robust, and Scalable Architecture for P2P Topic-Based Pub/Sub

      • Vinay Setty, Maarten van Steen, Roman Vitenberg, Spyros Voulgaris

      Pages 271-291

   3. Unification of Publish/Subscribe Systems and Stream Databases

      • Joseph Sventek, Alexandros Koliousis

      Pages 292-311

   4. High-Performance Location-Aware Publish-Subscribe on GPUs

      • Gianpaolo Cugola, Alessandro Margara

      Pages 312-331

6. Big-Data and Cloud Computing

   1. Enabling Efficient Placement of Virtual Infrastructures in the Cloud

      • Ioana Giurgiu, Claris Castillo, Asser Tantawi, Malgorzata Steinder

      Pages 332-353

   2. A Scalable Inline Cluster Deduplication Framework for Big Data Protection

      • Yinjin Fu, Hong Jiang, Nong Xiao

      Pages 354-373

   3. CloudPack

      • Vatche Ishakian, Raymond Sweha, Azer Bestavros, Jonathan Appavoo

      Pages 374-393

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile middleware; tracing and diagnosis; architecture and performance; publish/subscribe middleware; and big-data and cloud computing; availability, security and privacy.

• crowdsourcing
• distributed systems
• information retrieval
• pervasive computing
• publish-subscribe
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Priya Narasimhan

• Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Rio, Greece

  Peter Triantafillou

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