Guidelines for Workshop Proposals

Please prepare a tentative call for papers for your workshop not exceeding 3 pages. The call should contain the following information:

• The title of the workshop.
• A brief technical description of the workshop, identifying specific technical issues and focus.
• A brief description of why the workshop is of interest at this time.
• A short description of the intended length and format of the workshop.
• A brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to the Middleware community.
• The names, postal and e-mail addresses of the main organizers of the workshop, including the name of the primary contact.
• A preliminary list of people who have agreed to serve on the program committee together with a statement on the intended review process.

The Advanced Workshops Chair is also happy to discuss proposals in advance of the submission date.

The Submission Procedure

All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail to kon(at)ime.usp.br in one of the following formats - plain ASCII text, .pdf or .ps - as soon as possible, but not later than March 30th, 2004.

Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2004.

As soon as a workshop proposal is accepted for Middleware 2004, each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for producing and publicizing the final Call for Papers for the workshop and select the workshop participants.

Workshop Proceedings

The workshop organizing committee will select the papers to be presented in each workshop and will collect the camera-ready versions to be printed in a combined workshop proceedings. We expect that each workshop will typically accept 8 to 16 papers and that each paper will be between 4 to 6 pages in length.

Participation in a Workshop

Participation in a particular workshop will be subject to the following conditions: registration for the main conference as well as for the particular workshop (a complementary workshop fee will be applicable), and acceptance at that workshop.

Summary of important dates