Middleware 2009: ACM/IFIP/USENIX, 10th International Conference, Urbana, IL, USA, November 30 - December 4, 2009, Proceedings

This edition marks the tenth Middleware conference. The first conference was held in the Lake District of England in 1998, and its genesis reffected a growing realization that middleware systems were a unique breed of distributed system requiring their own rigorous research and evaluation. Distributed systems had been around for decades, and the Middleware conference itself resulted from the combination of three previous conferences. But the attempt to build common platforms for many differ...