Middleware 2008

1. Front Matter

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2. Platforms

   1. Adaptive Content-Based Routing in General Overlay Topologies

      • Guoli Li, Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen

      Pages 1-21

   2. AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices

      • Jan S. Rellermeyer, Oriana Riva, Gustavo Alonso

      Pages 22-41

   3. Exo-Leasing: Escrow Synchronization for Mobile Clients of Commodity Storage Servers

      • Liuba Shrira, Hong Tian, Doug Terry

      Pages 42-61

   4. Subscription Subsumption Evaluation for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems

      • Hojjat Jafarpour, Bijit Hore, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian

      Pages 62-81

3. Software Engineering

   1. Diagnosing Distributed Systems with Self-propelled Instrumentation

      • Alexander V. Mirgorodskiy, Barton P. Miller

      Pages 82-103

   2. Multithreading Strategies for Replicated Objects

      • Jörg Domaschka, Thomas Bestfleisch, Franz J. Hauck, Hans P. Reiser, Rüdiger Kapitza

      Pages 104-123

   3. A Component Framework for Java-Based Real-Time Embedded Systems

      • Aleš Plšek, Frédéric Loiret, Philippe Merle, Lionel Seinturier

      Pages 124-143

   4. DeXteR – An Extensible Framework for Declarative Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems

      • Sriram Gopal, Wesley Tansey, Gokulnath C. Kannan, Eli Tilevich

      Pages 144-163

   5. Performance Comparison of PHP and JSP as Server-Side Scripting Languages

      • Scott Trent, Michiaki Tatsubori, Toyotaro Suzumura, Akihiko Tozawa, Tamiya Onodera

      Pages 164-182

   6. Debugging and Testing Middleware with Aspect-Based Control-Flow and Causal Patterns

      • Luis Daniel Benavides Navarro, Rémi Douence, Mario Südholt

      Pages 183-202

4. System Management

   1. Enabling Resource Sharing between Transactional and Batch Workloads Using Dynamic Application Placement

      • David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, Jordi Torres, Eduard Ayguadé

      Pages 203-222

   2. Biologically-Inspired Distributed Middleware Management for Stream Processing Systems

      • Geetika T. Lakshmanan, Robert E. Strom

      Pages 223-242

   3. pMapper: Power and Migration Cost Aware Application Placement in Virtualized Systems

      • Akshat Verma, Puneet Ahuja, Anindya Neogi

      Pages 243-264

   4. Burstiness in Multi-tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models

      • Ningfang Mi, Giuliano Casale, Ludmila Cherkasova, Evgenia Smirni

      Pages 265-286

   5. Towards End-to-End Quality of Service: Controlling I/O Interference in Shared Storage Servers

      • Gokul Soundararajan, Cristiana Amza

      Pages 287-305

5. Components and System Algorithms and Properties

   1. SODA: An Optimizing Scheduler for Large-Scale Stream-Based Distributed Computer Systems

      • Joel Wolf, Nikhil Bansal, Kirsten Hildrum, Sujay Parekh, Deepak Rajan, Rohit Wagle et al.

      Pages 306-325

   2. Toward Massive Query Optimization in Large-Scale Distributed Stream Systems

      • Yongluan Zhou, Karl Aberer, Kian-Lee Tan

      Pages 326-345

   3. QoS Allocation Algorithms for Publish-Subscribe Information Space Middleware

      • Joseph Loyall, Matthew Gillen, Praveen Sharma

      Pages 346-365

   4. Profiling and Modeling Resource Usage of Virtualized Applications

      • Timothy Wood, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc Ozonat, Prashant Shenoy

      Pages 366-387

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Middleware Con- rence, held in Leuven, Belgium during December 1–4, 2008. This year marked the ninth rendition of this annual conference in its current format initially - opted in 1998, aspiring to serve as the premier venue focusing exclusively on important middleware results. A lot has happened over the intervening 10-year span. Middleware has become pervasive in an increasinglyinterconnected world, with its concepts now securely embedded in the notional architectures driving forward the information age. The conference continues to be a focal point for important new initiatives and results for new generations of middleware. With each succeeding year, it has become an even more competitive publishing venue, further extending its selectivity this year as well. Of the 117 submissions, - ly 21 were able to receive acceptance invitations, for an acceptance rate of less than18%. Competitiveindeed. Additionally,thesesubmissionscontinuetocome from all over the globe, spanning authors from 23 countries. A truly world-wide endeavor. But other things have also changed as we turn the corner on the ?rst decade of this conference. In many ways, middleware has achieved signi?cant success where it really counts: in terms of technical innovations, advanced capabilities, successful ideas, and ?elded systems which permeate society, industry, gov- nment, and academia. With this success comes maturity.

• Software Engineering
• ad-hoc networks
• aspect-oriented programming
• benchmarking
• bioinspired computing
• cluster computing
• component framework
• content-based routing
• distributed algorithms
• distributed applications
• distributed systems
• embedded systems
• fault tolerance
• gri
• middelware

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