Middleware 2013: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 14th International Middleware Conference, Beijing, China, December 9-13, 2013, Proceedings

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 middlew...