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Call for Doctoral Symposium ACM/IFIP Middleware 2021
The 22nd ACM/IFIP International Conference on Middleware (ACM/IFIP Middleware 2021)
will be held in Québec, Canada from December 6 to 10, 2021
We are pleased to welcome you to Québec, Canada!
https://middleware-conf.github.io/2021/
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The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference invites PhD students working in the related fields to submit their phd research concepts to the doctoral symposium.
Details at: https://middleware-conf.github.io/2021/call-for-doctoral-symposium/.

Submission: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Notification: Friday, October 1, 2021
Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, October 8, 2021

**Submission Guidelines**

Position papers are limited to 2 pages (for early-stage research students) or 4 pages (for late stage research students). Students should identify the category they belong to. Submissions must use the same format as for the research papers. The suggested format is detailed on the Middleware 2021 website. Please see the submission format for the research track. The submissions should include an author name and associated affiliation: the only author should be the PhD student (other contributors, e.g., the PhD student’s advisor(s), can be acknowledged in a separate section at the end). The students should ask a letter of reference from their PhD advisor, which should accompany the submission.
Contributions to the Middleware 2021 Doctoral symposium will appear in the proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings.
The accepted position paper will lead to a presentation during the doctoral symposium.
Please submit papers to https://middleware21ds.hotcrp.com/.

*** More details about submissions are available at https://middleware-conf.github.io/2021/call-for-doctoral-symposium/ ***

*** Doctoral Symposium Chairs ***
For any further questions, please contact the Middleware 2021 Doctoral Symposium chairs.
• Manar Jammal, York University: mjammal@yorku.ca
• Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University: abhishek.dubey@vanderbilt.edu

*** TPC Co-Chairs ***
• Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine
• Luís Veiga, Instituto Superior Técnico (U.Lisboa) & INESC-ID

** General Co-Chairs ***
• Kaiwen Zhang, ÉTS
• Abdelouahed Gherbi, ÉTS

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