The fourth international workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-Time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens'09) will be co-located with Middleware 2009 (November 30th - December 4th, 2009) in Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA.

Middleware for sensor networks is a critical research domain which addresses key challenges that application developers are facing today. The three previous editions of this workshop (MidSens'06, MidSens'07 and MidSens'08) attracted researchers from Europe, Asia, and the United States. The MidSens workshop series has served to trigger and guide research efforts to create an integrated middleware vision, which is required to handle the challenges inherent in developing, deploying and managing complex sensor applications in an efficient way.

The aim of MidSens'09 is to stimulate research in the specific domain of middleware, programming languages and run-time support for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), to collect current expertise, to further refine and integrate different approaches and to bridge the gap between Middleware and WSN researchers. In particular, MidSens will investigate how middleware services can relieve programmers from the lowest level sensor details, while still enabling them to exploit a sensor's capabilities in an optimal way. This year's workshop will also investigate middleware approaches for integrating sensor networks with the Internet and enterprise systems.

The Call For Papers can be found here, all workshop papers will be uploaded to the ACM Digital Library.

20 October 2009: Keynote speech " Natural WSNs" by Prof. Indranil Gupta, UIUC

Abstract: This talk touches on the creative activity of extracting inspirations from nature in order to design WSN middleware and the algorithms that run within them. The talk is grounded in new design methodologies and working protocols that my group has designed and evaluated over the past years.

Speaker bio: Indranil Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He leads the Distributed Protocols Research Group (http://dprg.cs.uiuc.edu), which is interested in research on large-scale distributed systems, cloud computing, sensor networks, and distributed algorithms and methodologies. Indranil is recipient of the Beckman and Center for Advanced Studies Fellowships in 2009, the Junior Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 2008, and the NSF CAREER award in 2005. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2004, and has worked in IBM Research and Microsoft Research.

19 October 2009: The workshop program has been posted online.

29 september2009: List of accepted papers. (in alphabetical order)

1. MoMi - Model-Based Diagnosis Middleware for Sensor Networks (A. de Jong, M. Woehrle, K. Langendoen)

2. Adaptable Service and Resource Management in Wireless Sensor Networks (J. del Cid, D. Hughes, J. Ueyama, e.a.)

3. Integrating Wireless Sensor Networks into Web Service-Based Business Processes (N. Glombitza, D. Pfisterer, S. Fischer)

4. Flexible Integration of Data Qualities in Wireless Sensor Networks (N. Matthys, C. Huygens, e.a.)

5. Lorien: A pure dynamic component-based Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks (B. Porter, G. Coulson)

6. Lightweight Tracing Middleware for Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks (V. Sundaram, P. Eugster, X. Zhang)

15 september2009: The paper notifications have been sent.

02nd August 2009: The abstract submission deadline has passed, however full papers may still be submitted before the August 8th deadline. Please notify us if you intend to submit.

26th July 2009: Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline has been extended to August 1st for Abstracts and August 8th for full papers.

15th July 2009: Paper submission open on the submission page . Abstracts must be submitted by July 25th 2009.

15th May 2009: The MidSens'09 website goes online.