The Middleware 2024 conference, hosted in Hong Kong, will feature new paper categories including short and work-in-progress papers alongside traditional research submissions. Submission statistics show a significant increase in both abstracts and accepted papers compared to previous years, with a total of 58 program committee members involved in reviewing. The program includes 12 thematic sessions and several awards for outstanding papers, emphasizing participation and interactive discussion.

1. MIDDLEWARE 2024
Hong Kong, China
PC Chairs: Zhi Jin Valerio Schiavoni
University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Peking University
China

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CFP: Research
• Dual-deadline mode
• Research papers
• Experiment and deployment papers
• Big idea papers
• New in 2024: Short papers
• New in 2024: WIP papers

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Stats - Fall/Winter (R1)
• 30 registered abstracts, 26 full submissions
• 6 accepted, 8 offered a revise-and-resubmit
Unknown
4%
Canada
4%
India
4%
Japan
4%
Germany
7%
Greece
4%
France
4%
Italy
4%
Sweden
4%
Belgium
4%
UK
7%
Switzerland
7%
USA
19%
China
26%
+116% more submissions
+50% accepted papers
wrt. MW’23-R1

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Reviewing Timeline: Fall/Winter
08.02.24
26.01.24
01.12.23
05.01.24
05.02.24
phase-1
reviews
rebuttal
starts
rebuttal
ends
full
paper
due
phase-2
reviews
16.02.24
online
discussion
ends
26.02.24
notifications
out
16.03.24
shepherd
assign
01.04.24
shepherd
ends
09.02.24
online
discussion
starts
CR
14.04.24
26 16 6
39% stopped at R1 additional 38% stopped after R2
[3 as revisions from MW23-R2]
>= 3 reviews >= 4 reviews
(large majority >=5)

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Stats - Spring/Summer (R2)
• 171 registered abstracts, 141 full submissions
• 33 accepted, 13 offered a revise-and-resubmit
Norway
2%
Belgium
2%
Portugal
2%
India
2%
Greece
3%
GB
4%
Switzerland
4%
Netherlands
5%
Canada
6%
France
9%
Germany
11%
USA
19%
China
25%
+113% more submissions
+65% accepted papers
wrt. MW’23-R2

6. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
Reviewing Timeline: Spring/Summer
30.08.24
27.08.24
24.05.24
22.07.24
28.08.24
phase-1
reviews
rebuttal
starts
rebuttal
ends
full
paper
due
phase-2
reviews
05.09.24
online
discussion
ends
09.09.24
notifications
out
10.09.24
shepherd
assign
01.10.24
shepherd
ends
02.09.24
online
discussion
starts
CR
15.10.24
🥵 🥵
05.02.24
141 79 33
43% stopped at R1 additional 32% stopped after R2
>= 3 reviews >= 4 reviews
(large majority >5)
[7 as revisions from MW24-R1]

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Reviewing Stats
• Spring/Summer: 3~4 reviews per PC member
• Fall/Winter: 11~12 reviews per PC member
• Submissions in R2 significantly increased the
workload of the TPC
• All papers passed mandatory shepherding

8. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
Program Committee
Alexandru Uta (DFINITY, Switzerland)
Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Janick Edinger (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Antonio Barbalace (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Antonio Di Maio (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Boris Koldehofe (The Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, US)
Claudia-Lavinia Ignat (INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France)
David Eyers (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Davide Frey (INRIA Rennes, France)
Dezun Dong (Nationa University of Defense Technology, China)
Djob Mvondo (University of Rennes, France)
Do Le Quoc (Huawei Munich Research Center, Germany)
Emanuel Onica (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania)
Fabio Kon (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Giovanni Mazzeo (University of Naples 'Parthenope')
Guillaume Rosinosky (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Han Rui (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Hanhwi Jang (Google LLC)
Jérémie Decouchant (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Jiangtao Wang (Coventry University, England)
João Tiago Paulo (INESC TEC / University of Minho, Portugal)
Kuan-Hsun Chen (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Laura González (University of the Republic, Uruguay)
Lei Xie (Nanjing University, China)
Linghe Kong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Liting Lu (University of California, Santa Cruz, US)
Marios Kogias (Imperial College London, England)
Marta Patiño (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Matej Pavlovic (Protocol Labs Research, Switzerland)
Miguel Matos (Universidade de Lisboa / INESC-ID, Portugal)
Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis, US)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, US)
Paul Grace (Aston University, England)
Pedro Garcia-Lopez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Pierre Sutra (Télécom SudParis, France)
Raúl Gracia Tinedo (Dell Technologies, Spain)
Robert Birke (University of Turin, Italy)
Roberto Palmieri (Leigh University, US)
Romain Rouvoy (University of Lille, France)
Roman Vitenberg (University of Oslo, Norway)
Roy Friedman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Rüdiger Kapitza (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-
Nürnberg, Germany)
Sara Bouchenak (INSA Lyon, France)
Shan Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR)
Subrata Mitra (Adobe Research)
Takahiro Shinagawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Thomas Pasquier (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Tobias Distler (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany)
Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece)
Vincenzo Gulisano (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Xin Jin (Peking University, China)
Youngsok Kim (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Yu Hua (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Yunpeng Chai (Renmin University of China, China)
Thank You!
• 52 TPC members for Autumn/Fall, increased to 58 for Spring/Summer

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Industry Track
Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden)
Dmitrii Kuvaiskii (Intel Labs/AWS)
Hanhwi Jang (Huawei Research)
Wojciech Ozga (IBM Research)
Xinjun (Jimmy) Yang (Alibaba Cloud)
Thank You!
• Chairs: Dr Do Le Quoc (Hauwei Research) and Dr Zhengping Qian (Alibaba)
• 6 TPC members, single deadline, single round:
• 18 full submissions
• 7 accepted, acceptance ratio: 38.8 %
• Each paper received at least 3 reviews

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Program Stats (R1&R2)
Industry
7
EDP
1
Short
2
Reserch
37
Reserch Short EDP Industry

11. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
Program
• 12 thematic sessions:
• Serverless
• Heterogeneous Systems
• Cloud
• Industry session 1
• GPU
• Distributed ML
• Data and stream processing
• Industry session 2
• Distributed Systems
• Potpourri
• Security and privacy
• Systems
Wednesday
(today)
Thursday
(tomorrow)
Friday
(last day of MW’24)
https://middleware-conf.github.io/2024/program/full-program/

12. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
Schedule
• 3 keynotes
• 12 technical sessions:
• 10 sessions for 39 papers accepted in the research track
• 2 sessions for 7 papers accepted in the industry track
• 15 minutes per paper:
• 13 min. of presentation
• 2 min. of Q&A with authors (including the few ones remote)
• Session chairs will steer the discussions
• We look forward very interactive sessions !
https://middleware-conf.github.io/2024/program/full-program/

13. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
Awards
• Three awards for papers accepted in
the research track:
• 🎖Best Student Paper award
• 🥇 Best-Paper Runner-up 🏃
• 🏆 Best Paper Award

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Best Student Paper 🎖
L3: Latency-aware Load Balancing in
Multi-Cluster Service Mesh
Olivier Michaelis (TU Berlin), Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin),
Habib Mostafaei (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Session 2 (today) 12:00

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Best Paper Runner-up 🥇 🏃
Chasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-
Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury
Christian Berger (University of Passau), Lívio Rodrigues
(Universidade de Lisboa), Hans P. Reiser (Reykjavik University),
Vinicius Cogo, Alysson Bessani (Universidade de Lisboa)
Session 9 (friday) 10:15

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Best Paper 🏆
Banyan: Fast Rotating Leader BFT
Yann Vonlanthen, Jakub Sliwinski, Massimo Albarello, Roger
Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
Session 9 (friday) 10:15

17. MW’24 - 02-04.12.24 - Message from MW’24 PC Chairs
ENJOY
MIDDLEWARE 2024
and look forward 2025 🦅