From: Dr Zahir Tari Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: DOA'99 Call for Participation Date: 21 Jul 1999 14:26:18 GMT Organization: RMIT Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7n4laa$rra$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15740 ___ __ __ __ __ | | | | | | / |__||__| CALL FOR PARTICIPATION | | | | |--| / / Int. Symp. on Distributed Objects and Applications _|_| |__| | | / / Edinburgh, 5-6th September, 1999 + SPONSORED by IONA + SUPPORTED by OMG (Object Management Group) and IC (Interoperability ClearingHouse) FULL detail about DOA'99 (eg registration etc) is available at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/doa99 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday 4th 6:00-8:00 pm Registration -- Location TBA Sunday 5th 8:00am Opening 9:00-9:45 Keynote I Que Sera Sera: The Coincidental Confluence of Economics, Business, and Collaborative Computing Dr. Michael Brodie GTE, USA 9:45 -10:00 Tea break 10:00-11:00 Track I: Bindings -------- A framework for policy bindings O. Hanssen and F. Eliassen Agder College, Grimstad, Norway StratOSphere: Unification of Code, Data, Location, Scope, and Mobility D. Wu, D. Agrawal, and A.E. Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Track II: Agents -------- An Agent-based Search Engine based on the Internet Search Service on the CORBA Y.S. Chang, H.C. Hsieh, and S.M. Yuan National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Using Mobile Agents for Parallel Processing L. M. Silva, V.Batista, P.Martins, and G.Soares University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 11:00-12:00 Track I: Database Aspects -------- Remote Method Invocation for a Persistent System S. Spence University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK The Data Network: A Distributed Object View of Dynamic Data Management M. Machura Bournemouth University, Poole, UK Track II: Database Aspects -------- A Model for Java/CORBA & OODBMs Distributed Architectures L. Mazzucchelli University of Sapienza, Rome, Italy Distributing Mapping Objects with the Geospatial Information Database M. Chung, R. Wilson, K. Shaw Naval Research Laboratory, USA and M. Cobb University of Southern Mississippi, USA 12:00-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Track I: Fault Tolerance -------- Fault Injection Experiments for Distributed Objects P. E. Chung, W. Lee, J. Shih, S. Yajnik Bell Laboratories, USA and Yennun Huang AT&T Research, USA Multicast Group Communication for CORBA L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith et al. University of California, Santa Barabara, USA Track II: Performance -------- High Performance Distributed Objects using Caching Proxies for Large Scale Applications P. Martin BT Labs, UK and V. Callaghan and A. Clark University of Essex, UK The Performance of a Real-time I/O Subsystem for QoS-enabled ORB Middleware F. Kuhns, D.C. Schmidt, and D. L. Levine Washington University, St. Louis, USA 14:30-15:00 Tea break 15:00-16:00 Track I: Replication & Fault Tolerance -------- Failure Detectors as First Class Objects P. Felber, X. Defago, R. Guerraoui, and P. Oser Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland Pseudo-Active Replication of Distributed Objects in Wide-Area Networks H. Higaki, K. Tanaka and M. Takizawa Tokyo Denki University, Japan Track II: Replication & Load balancing -------- Quorum-based Locking Protocol for Replicated Objects K. Tanaka, H. Higaki, and M. Takizawa Tokyo Denki University, Japan Load Distribution in a CORBA Environment T. Barth, G. Flender, B. Freisleben, and F. Thilo University of Siegen, Germany 16:00-17:30 Track I: Case Studies -------- Storage Access Coordination using CORBA A. Sim, H. Nordberg, L. M. Bernardo, A. Shoshani and D. Rotem Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA DeepView: A channel for Virtual Microscopy B. Parvin, J. Taylor, and G. Cong Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Developing a Global Standard for Interoperable Accounting Systems R. Barnett Real Objects Ltd, Oslo, Norway T. Neple SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Oslo, Norway and J. Hassall Stanford Software International, Stockport, UK Track II: Interoperability -------- Interoperability of Java-Based Applications and SAP Business Framework State of the Art and Desirable Developments M. Aleksy and A. Korthaus University of Mannheim, Germany Enabling Flexible Cross-Version Interoperability from Distributed Services T. Senivongse Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand Active COM : An inter-working framework for CORBA and DCOM J. Daniel, B. Traverson, and V. Vallee EDF-DER, Paris, France 17:30pm Adjourn Monday 6th 9:00am Keynote II A Distributed Object Web-Publishing Environment Using CORBA Al Issa CNN, USA 9:45-10:00 Tea break 10:00-11:00 Track I: Case Studies -------- Distributed Objects in a Large Scale Text Processing Systems I. Sanz Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and L. Mazzucchelli ITACA s.r.l., Rome, Italy DOK-Trader: A CORBA Persistent Trader with Query Routing Facilities G. Craske, Z. Tari and K.R. Kumar Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Track II: Workflows -------- An Adaptable Workflow System Architecture on the Internet For Electronic Commerce Applications I. Cingil and A. Dogac Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara Turkiye CORBA-Based Architecture for Image Workflow in a Large Consortium of Hospitals O. Bukhres and D. Hoang Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA 11:00-12:00 Track I: Semantics -------- Formal Support for the Engineering of CORBA-based distributed Object Systems R. Bastide, O. Sy, and P. Palanque Universit=E9 Toulouse I, France Providing structure for medium-grained distributed object-based computation R. Durrant, G. Sweeney, M. Fleury, A. C. Downton and A. F. Clark University of Essex, Colchester, U.K Track II: Transactions -------- CORBA transactions through firewalls D. Ingham Newcastle University, UK and O. Rees and A. Norman Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK Object Transaction Service : Experiences and Open Issues P. Ram, L. Do, and P. Drew The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA and T. Zhou Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Track I: Quality of Service -------- Adaptive QoS Aware Binding of Persistent Multimedia Objects T. Plagemann, F. Eliassen, V. Goebel, T. Kristensen and H. O. Rafaelsen University of Oslo, Norway Extending CORBA with specialised protocols for QoS provisioning Aart T. van Halteren, A. Noutash, L. J.M. Nieuwenhuis and M. Wegdam University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Track II: Processing -------- ECA Rule processing in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments S. Chakravarthy, R. L. and R. Dasari University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Parallel Data Processing in a Distributed O-O Model J. Monde and M. Cobb University of Southern Mississippi, USA 14:30-15:00 Tea break 15:00-16:00 Track I: Components -------- Building Mediators from Components J. Todd, R. King, W. McIver et al. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Dynamic Component Gluing Across Different Componentware Systems R. Cerqueira, C. Cassino and R. Ierusalimschy Departamento de Informatica, PUC-Rio, Brazil Track II: Pot Pourri -------- IONA speaker (TBA) Protecting Distributed Object Systems by Merging Capabilities with the Object Model of an Object-Oriented Abstract Machines M. Fondon, D. Gutierrez, A. Sanchez et al. University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain 16:00-17:00 Closing panel (TBA) -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel