Middleware 2011

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Paper

   1. Democratizing Transactional Programming

      • Vincent Gramoli, Rachid Guerraoui

      Pages 1-19

3. Social Networks

   1. Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands

      • Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Lei Jiao, Ben Y. Zhao, Pan Hui, Xiaoming Fu

      Pages 20-40

   2. Contrail: Enabling Decentralized Social Networks on Smartphones

      • Patrick Stuedi, Iqbal Mohomed, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Z. Morley Mao, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Doug Terry et al.

      Pages 41-60

   3. Confidant: Protecting OSN Data without Locking It Up

      • Dongtao Liu, Amre Shakimov, Ramón Cáceres, Alexander Varshavsky, Landon P. Cox

      Pages 61-80

4. Storage and Performance Management

   1. Live Deduplication Storage of Virtual Machine Images in an Open-Source Cloud

      • Chun-Ho Ng, Mingcao Ma, Tsz-Yeung Wong, Patrick P. C. Lee, John C. S. Lui

      Pages 81-100

   2. Scalable Load Balancing in Cluster Storage Systems

      • Gae-won You, Seung-won Hwang, Navendu Jain

      Pages 101-122

   3. Predico: A System for What-if Analysis in Complex Data Center Applications

      • Rahul Singh, Prashant Shenoy, Maitreya Natu, Vaishali Sadaphal, Harrick Vin

      Pages 123-142

5. Green Computing and Resource Management

   1. GreenWare: Greening Cloud-Scale Data Centers to Maximize the Use of Renewable Energy

      • Yanwei Zhang, Yefu Wang, Xiaorui Wang

      Pages 143-164

   2. Resource Provisioning Framework for MapReduce Jobs with Performance Goals

      • Abhishek Verma, Ludmila Cherkasova, Roy H. Campbell

      Pages 165-186

   3. Resource-Aware Adaptive Scheduling for MapReduce Clusters

      • Jordà Polo, Claris Castillo, David Carrera, Yolanda Becerra, Ian Whalley, Malgorzata Steinder et al.

      Pages 187-207

6. Notification and Streaming

   1. A Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Matching Algorithm for 2D Spatial Objects

      • Athanasios Konstantinidis, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexander L. Wolf

      Pages 208-227

   2. FAIDECS: Fair Decentralized Event Correlation

      • Gregory Aaron Wilkin, K. R. Jayaram, Patrick Eugster, Ankur Khetrapal

      Pages 228-248

   3. AmbiStream: A Middleware for Multimedia Streaming on Heterogeneous Mobile Devices

      • Emil Andriescu, Roberto Speicys Cardoso, Valérie Issarny

      Pages 249-268

   4. Virtualizing Stream Processing

      • Michael Duller, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, Nesime Tatbul

      Pages 269-288

7. Replication and Caching

   1. Leader Election for Replicated Services Using Application Scores

      • Diogo Becker, Flavio Junqueira, Marco Serafini

      Pages 289-308

   2. PolyCert: Polymorphic Self-optimizing Replication for In-Memory Transactional Grids

      • Maria Couceiro, Paolo Romano, Luis Rodrigues

      Pages 309-328

   3. A Trigger-Based Middleware Cache for ORMs

      • Priya Gupta, Nickolai Zeldovich, Samuel Madden

      Pages 329-349

8. Security and Interoperability

   1. Deploy, Adjust and Readjust: Supporting Dynamic Reconfiguration of Policy Enforcement

      • Gabriela Gheorghe, Bruno Crispo, Roberto Carbone, Lieven Desmet, Wouter Joosen

      Pages 350-369

   2. A Middleware Layer for Flexible and Cost-Efficient Multi-tenant Applications

      • Stefan Walraven, Eddy Truyen, Wouter Joosen

      Pages 370-389

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 industry papers and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social networks, storage and performance management, green computing and resource management, notification and streaming, replication and caching, security and interoperability, and run-time (re)configuration and inspection.

• Web applications
• distributed systems
• open-source cloud
• software-as-a-service
• virtualization

• Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil

  Fabio Kon

• INRIA-Rennes, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, Rennes Cedex, France

  Anne-Marie Kermarrec

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