SAT – Software and Middleware

The Middleware SAT will aim at working on the increasingly relevant research area of software supports to facilitate the design, implementation, and deployment of systems/services in different application domains, from enriched Web Services in traditional distributed systems to mobile services in future integrated networks, from QoS-aware multimedia distribution to self-organizing P2P systems with emerging behavior. The challenge is to identify common solution guidelines, widely reusable in all these domains, i.e., the identification of suitable software engineering methodologies and proper enabling technologies to realize middleware supports that relieve application-logic implementers from both system management burden and visibility of system/technology-dependent implementation details.

Paolo Bellavista - Chair

Professor, Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Italy

Paolo Bellavista is an associate professor of computer engineering, within the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. He is Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and serves in the Editorial Board of several International journals/magazines, such as IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Springer Journal on Network and Systems Management, and Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. He has been a member of Organizing Committees and Technical Program Committees of several international conferences, including serving as Technical Program Committee Chair of IEEE ISCC'06, IEEE ISCC'10, ICST Mobilware'08, SEPCASE'07, and GPC'10, as General Chair of ICST Mobilware'09 and ICST Mobilware'10, and as Track Chair for IEEE COMPSAC'07, IEEE COMPSAC'09, and IEEE SOCA'10.

His research activities span from mobile computing in general to mobile agent-based middleware, from pervasive and opportunistic wireless computing to location/context-aware services, from replication in mobile ad hoc networks to adaptive multimedia, from vehicular to wireless sensor networks. He authored more than 30 journal/magazine articles and 80 conference/workshop papers. You can find more information about him at http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista