Welcome

Following the successful 2020 edition of the Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things, we are happy to announce M4IoT 2021. We look forward to your submissions!

Past editions of M4IoT

7th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT 2020) On-line
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6th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT 2019) Davis, California, USA
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5th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT 2018) Rennes, France
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4th Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things (M4IoT 2017) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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3rd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT (M4IoT 2016) Trento, Italy
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2nd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT (M4IoT 2015) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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1st Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT (M4IoT 2014) Bordeaux, France
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Scope

The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new services and applications across various domains, including smart electricity grids, intelligent transportation, healthcare, smart homes, and energy management. As a consequence, a complex ecosystem of interconnected applications, services, and physical/virtual devices, with a high degree of heterogeneity, emerges. Such heterogeneity can be addressed by middleware platforms to abstract away the specificities of these devices, promote interoperability among them, and leverage the development of services and applications. In this ecosystem, enabled by middleware, devices share contextual data or receive control commands; services consume, process, and/or provide data; and applications leverage services and devices to fulfill users’ needs.

Topics of Interest

The International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things - M4IoT focuses on two fundamental components in such ecosystems, namely (i) the middleware to compose applications, services, and devices and (ii) the applications built atop such middleware. Central topics of interest include the design, implementation, and operation of these components and how they process data and communicate with each other. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Abstractions and API composition for IoT applications, including middleware concepts enabling end-users to interconnect devices and applications
IoT application development issues, including methodologies, tools, and experience
Services and infrastructure for IoT applications, e.g., cloud-, edge-, fog-, and mobile cloud-based services for IoT, data management (storage and analytics), design and experience of IoT platforms, semantic Web services, and discovery services
Processing paradigms and services
Quality aspects, e.g., security, privacy, Quality of Context, performance, availability, and dependability

Paper Submission and Publication

M4IoT 2021 seeks two kinds of paper submissions:

Regular research papers (up to 6 pages) describing original, substantial contributions in research and/or practice
Position papers and experience reports (up to 4 pages) describing emerging results, lessons learned, and open problems from concrete applications or novel ideas and perspectives on research

All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must comply with the ACM 2-column conference format (ACM_SigConf) available at this link. LaTeX users must use the acmart.cls class provided in the template with the conference format enabled at the document preamble:

\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}

Authors must use the ACM-Reference-Format.bst bibliography style also provided in the template:

\bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}

The page limit includes all figures, tables, and references. Papers must be electronically submitted through the HotCRP system.

All submitted papers should describe original work and not be published or under review anywhere. The papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. At least one author of each accepted paper must register at Middleware 2021 and present the paper during the workshop, otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Proceedings of previous editions of the M4IoT workshop are available here.

Important: Due to the COVID-19 situation, Middleware 2021 and M4IoT 2021 will be held virtually. Nonetheless, all accepted papers will be published at the ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:	September 2, 2021 September 9, 2021 (AoE, GMT-12)
Author notification:	September 27, 2021
Camera-ready copies:	October 15, 2021

Organization

Workshop Co-chairs

David Bermbach Berlin University of Technology, Germany
David Eyers University of Otago, New Zealand
Everton Cavalcante Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Stéphane Delbruel University of Oslo, Norway

Program Committee

Rossana Andrade Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Jean-Paul Arcangeli University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France
Thais Batista Federal University of Rio Grandde do Norte, Brazil
Sophie Chabridon Télécom SudParis/Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France
Abhishek Chandra University of Minnesota, USA
Denis Conan Télécom SudParis/Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France
Thierry Coupaye Orange Labs, France
Flávia Delicato Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Vincenzo de Maio Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Abhishek Dubey Vanderbilt University, USA
Paul Grace Aston University, United Kingdom
Romain Laborde University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France
Kevin Lee Deakin University, Australia
Ken Moody University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Frank Pallas Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Thomas Pasquier University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Davy Preuveneers Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Philippe Roose University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France
Douglas Schmidt Vanderbilt University, USA
Chantal Taconet Télécom SudParis/Institute Polytechnique de Paris, France
Jó Ueyama University of São Paulo, Brazil
Shigeng Zhang Central South University, China