More about the Programme
Europe had a significant role in the development and implementation of middleware abstractions for the wired infrastructure, namely those based on the Remote Procedure Call model. Indeed, the first industrial CORBA-like middleware (Common Object Request Broker Middleware), and the first implementation of the CORBA standard of the OMG (Object Management Group), namely, Orbix, came out of an European project. Orbix, and its new variants, can still be viewed as the state of the art middleware support.
The aim of this programme is to bring together the main groups, from different communities, that are working on middleware for mobile environments, though from different communities, and to foster the definition and implementation of widely recognized middleware abstractions for new and emerging mobile applications. We would like to gather experts from programming languages, distributed systems, distributed algorithms, software engineering and networking.
The challenges of such a task are considerable, because the diversity of infrastructures and application requirements promotes the development of ad hoc, specialized middleware solutions that are hard to re-use in different contexts. The interest of this program is that it gathers research groups whose interests are close enough to promote the emergence of concrete solutions, while at the same time combining complementary expertises in the area of networks, algorithms, software engineering and application development.
Planned activities
5th MINEMA Workshop, 11-12 September 2007, Magdeburg, Germany
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Publications
MiNEMA brochure (PDF 457 KB)
