International Middleware Conference
# International Middleware Conference

The International Middleware Conference brings together academic and industrial delegates who have an interest in the development, optimisation, evaluation and evolution of middleware.

## History

The first instance of the Middleware conference was held in 1998. Since 2003 the conference has been run annually. Many recent conference events have been ACM/IFIP/USENIX supported events.

## Conference structure

Middleware uses a single-track conference program, although it includes a growing number of submission categories. As of 2013, these include:

* Research papers
* Experimentation and deployment papers
* Big ideas papers

The conference also includes:

* Tutorials
* Demonstrations and posters
* A doctoral workshop

A number (six, in 2012) of workshops are typically co-located with the main conference.

