12/02/2005: "Middleware Paper Ready"

After countless hours of work from myself and colleagues the GOLD Middleware paper is finally ready for submission. I will be submitting it on Monday after having read through it a few times over the weekend. It will be submitted to this call which we just made the deadline. If it wasn't for the 4 day extension that Dr. Qusay (one of the editors) gave to all prospective authors I doubt we would have made it. After some pushing and shoving as it is always the case we agreed on structure and content. Let us hope that the reviewers will appreciate the work done on this. Given the restrictions applied by the journal I cannot publish any extracts of the paper until it has been reviewed.

On other news, I signed a contract with the Idea Group for a forthcoming book on web services security, that I have been assigned to edit. I have asked another colleague of mine to contribute and I hope he does. The call for chapters will be out shortly.

I look forward to the weekend.

BTW, apologies for the unimaginative cartoon on this post; It is the logo of the GOLD project. smile