The seventh international workshop on Middleware Tools, Services and Run-time Support for Sensor Networks (MidSens’12) will be co-located with Middleware 2012 (December 3rd - 7th, 2012) in Montreal, Canada.

Middleware for sensor networks addresses key challenges that application developers are facing today. The six previous editions of this workshop (MidSens'06, MidSens'07, MidSens'08, MidSens'09, MidSens'10 and MidSens'11) attracted researchers from around the world. The MidSens workshop series has served to trigger and promote research efforts in the area of creating an integrated middleware vision, as is required to handle the challenges inherent in developing, deploying and managing complex sensor network applications in an efficient way.

The aim of MidSens'12 is to stimulate research in the specific domain of middleware for sensor networks. The particular focus of MidSens'12 is the realization of multi-user, multi-purpose and federated sensing platforms that are capable of supporting next-generation application scenarios such as smart cities. Along with the core topic of middleware architectures, services and tool support, MidSens'12 will also seek papers describing novel programming languages, run-time support and relevant experience reports. MidSens'12 will investigate how middleware support can relieve developers from low-level, platform specific concerns, while enabling the optimal exploitation of heterogeneous resources to create sensing infrastructures of massive scale.

The Call For Papers can be found here. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and will be indexed in DBLP. The best paper will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Other papers will be invited to a special edition of the Hindawi Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

16th November 2012 The final program is now online here.

16th August 2012 We are proud to announce that Professor Roch Glitho from the University of Concordia will deliver the MidSens'12 keynote.

16th August 2012 Due to numerous requests, the MidSens 2012 submission deadline has been extended to 23rd August 2012.

8th July 2012: Based upon the reviewer's scoring, the best paper submitted to MidSens 2012 will be invited to a special edition of the Springer Journal of Internet Servcies and Applications.

22nd June 2012: All papers published at MidSens will be invited to a special edition of the Hindawi Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

15th June 2012: The MidSens'12 Website Goes Live!