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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference, held in Beijing, China, in December 2013. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 189 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of middleware for next-generation platforms such as cloud computing, social networks and large-scale storage and distributed systems. The middleware solutions introduced provide features such as availability, efficiency, scalability, fault-tolerance, trustworthy operation and support security and privacy needs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile middleware; tracing and diagnosis; architecture and performance; publish/subscribe middleware; and big-data and cloud computing; availability, security and privacy.

"This book explores technical integration challenges with a focus on identifying a viable solution on how to enable rich, flexible, and responsive information links, in support of the changing business operations across organizations"--Provided by publisher.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Trustworthy Eternal Systems via Evolving Software, Data and Knowledge, EternalS, held in Montpellier, France, in August 2012 and co-located with the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012). The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized into three main sections: natural language processing (NLP) for software systems, machine learning for software systems, roadmap for future research.

This book constitutes revised lectures from the 11th Symposium on Formal Methods for Components and Object, FMCO 2012, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in September 2012. The 8 lectures featured in this volume are by world-renowned experts within the area of formal models for objects and components. The book provides a unique combination of ideas on software engineering and formal methods which reflect the expanding body of knowledge on modern software systems.

After a brief introduction and contextualization on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) paradigms, this timely new book describes one of the first research initiatives aimed at tackling the several challenges involved in building a middleware-layer infrastructure capable of realizing the WoT vision: the SmartSensor infrastructure. It is based on current standardization efforts and designed to manage a specific type of physical devices, those organized to shape a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), where sensors work collaboratively, extracting data and transmitting it to external networks to be further analysed and processed. Middleware Solutions for the Internet of Things describes this infrastructure and its RESTful-based programming model that allows developers create applications without having specific knowledge about physical devices or networking environments. It is also shown, step by step, how to create a Web Mashup application using SmartSensor.