ICM 2021: 15. International Conference on Middleware

December 02-03, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan

Conference Code: 21JP12ICM

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The International Research Conference Aims and Objectives

The International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Events will run over a span of time during the conference depending on the number and length of the presentations. With its high quality, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

ICM 2021: 15. International Conference on Middleware aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Middleware. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Middleware

Call for Contributions

Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of Middleware are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research materials.

Guidelines for Authors

Please ensure your submission meets the conference's strict guidelines for accepting scholarly papers. Downloadable versions of the check list for Full-Text Papers and Abstract Papers.

Please refer to the Paper Submission Guideline, Abstract Submission Guideline and Author Information before submitting your paper.

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The peer-reviewed conference proceedings are indexed in the Open Science Index, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Zenedo, OpenAIRE, BASE, WorldCAT, Sherpa/RoMEO, and other index databases. Impact Factor Indicators.

Special Journal Issues

ICM 2021 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Middleware. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have the opportunity to be considered for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor. To participate as a sponsor or exhibitor, please download and complete the Conference Sponsorship Request Form.

Application Forms

Selected Papers

A Secure Auditing Framework for Load Balancing in Cloud Environment
R. Geetha, T. Padmavathy
Performance Evaluation of Parallel Surface Modeling and Generation on Actual and Virtual Multicore Systems
Nyeng P. Gyang
Comparison of Security Challenges and Issues of Mobile Computing and Internet of Things
Aabiah Nayeem, Fariha Shafiq, Mustabshra Aftab, Rabia Saman Pirzada, Samia Ghazala
CoP-Networks: Virtual Spaces for New Faculty’s Professional Development in the 21st Higher Education
Eman AbuKhousa, Marwan Z. Bataineh
SeCloudBPMN: A Lightweight Extension for BPMN Considering Security Threats in the Cloud
Somayeh Sobati Moghadam
Accelerating the Uptake of Smart City Applications through Cloud Computing
Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi
Secure Hashing Algorithm and Advance Encryption Algorithm in Cloud Computing
Jaimin Patel
Analytics Model in a Telehealth Center Based on Cloud Computing and Local Storage
L. Ramirez, E. Guillén, J. Sánchez
Digital Forensics Compute Cluster: A High Speed Distributed Computing Capability for Digital Forensics
Daniel Gonzales, Zev Winkelman, Trung Tran, Ricardo Sanchez, Dulani Woods, John Hollywood
Privacy-Preserving Location Sharing System with Client/Server Architecture in Mobile Online Social Network
Xi Xiao, Chunhui Chen, Xinyu Liu, Guangwu Hu, Yong Jiang
A Review on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things
Sahar S. Tabrizi, Dogan Ibrahim
Use of Social Networks and Mobile Technologies in Education
Václav Maněna, Roman Dostál, Štěpán Hubálovský
Stackelberg Security Game for Optimizing Security of Federated Internet of Things Platform Instances
Violeta Damjanovic-Behrendt
Detecting Geographically Dispersed Overlay Communities Using Community Networks
Madhushi Bandara, Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Danaja Maldeniya, Mahendra Piraveenan
Proposition of a Knowledge Management Approach Based on the Cloud Computing
Imane Chikhi, Hafida Abed

Middleware for emerging cloud computing, datacenters, and server farms
Middleware for traditional clusters and grid computing
Middleware for mobile devices, ubiquitous, and mobile computing
Middleware for sensor and embedded systems
Middleware for Internet applications and social networks
Middleware for Web services, Web service composition, and SOA
Middleware for data-intensive computing
Event-based, publish/subscribe, and message-oriented middleware
Middleware support for multimedia and tele-immersion
Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective middleware approaches
Middleware solutions for distributed databases
Peer-to-peer middleware solutions
Systems issues for Middleware:

Reliability and fault-tolerance
Scalability and performance
Energy- and power-aware techniques
Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling
Security, Privacy, and Information assurance
Storage and file systems
Parallelized execution and techniques

Abstracts/Full-Text Paper Submission Deadline		February 27, 2020
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection		March 12, 2020
Final Paper (Camera Ready) Submission & Early Bird Registration Deadline		November 04, 2021
Conference Dates		December 02-03, 2021

Elhadj Benkhelifa	Staffordshire University, UK
Cong Wang	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
Harvey Hyman	Saint Leo University, US
Harshavardhan Achrekar	University of Massachusetts Lowell, US
Shashank Shanbhag	Salesforce, US
Mohammed Korayem	CareerBuilder, LLC., US
Rajdeep Bhowmik	Cisco Systems Inc., US
Apurva Mohan	Honeywell Research Labs, US
Omar Khan	University of Maine, US
Zhinan Zhou	Samsung Telecommunications America, US
Amogh Kavimandan	The Mathworks Inc., US
Hemant Balakrishnan	University of Central Florida, US
Sherif Rashad	Morehead State university, US
Mohammed Alshehri	College of Computer and Information Sciences, Majmaah University, SA
Ramkumar Lakshminarayanan	Sur College of Applied Sciences (MOHE), OM
Myasar Tabany	School of Computing and Digital Media, London Metropolitan University, GB
Md Tabrez Nafis	Jamia Hamdard University, IN
T Raja Sree Thankaraja	National Institute of Technology Calicut, IN
Kamaljit Singh Saini	Chandigarh University, IN
S Zahoor Ul Huq	G. Pulla Reddy Engineering, IN
Rehana Parveen	Prince Sultan University, SA
Dinesh Reddy Vemula	Cognizant Technology Solutions, IN
Parameswari R	Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, IN
Sunil Kumar	Guru Nanak College for Girls, Sri Muktsar Sahib, IN
Huasong Shan	Louisiana State University, CN
G. Suseendran	Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies, IN
Sriman Narayana Iyengar, N.CH	Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, IN
Mokhled Altarawneh	Mutah University, JO
Parthiban Natarajan	SRM Institute of Science and Technology, IN
Feras Awaysheh	University of Santiago de Compostela, ES

Participation Type	Early Registration Fees	Registration Fees
Non-Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 450	€ 500
Student Oral/Poster Presenter Registration	€ 350	€ 400
Listener Registration	€ 250	€ 300
Additional Paper Publication	€ 100

All conference materials and services will be delivered digitally to the participant with the online conference management system. Conference registration includes the following digital materials and services:

e-certificates [for Authors: Certificate of Attendance and Presentation; for Listeners: Certificate of Attendance; for Chairs: Certificate of Attendance and Appreciation; for Presenters: Certificate of Best Presentation (if conferred based appraisal)]
e-program
e-book
e-name badge
e-receipt
e-presentation

Presentation Types:

Physical presentation is an oral conferencing presentation that is made using digital technology including embedded digital elements ( texts, tables, graphs, or videos ) for PowerPoint sharing.
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Early Bird Registration

Early Bird registration is valid until 2021-11-04 23:59:59

Online Credit Card Processing

Online payment option available for author and listener delegates.
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