title: International Middleware Conference
text: # 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.
  
  