DOA'00 Advance Program

Thursday, September 21

8:00    Registration

8:50    Opening of the DOA'00 Symposium

          Welcome
             Prof Carlos De Backer
             University of Antwerp
             Belgium

        Brief statement on the program
             DOA'00 PC Co-chairs

9:05-9:45     Keynote I

         SURVIVING THE TORNADO: The Best Kept Secrets of R&D
         Success in the Internet Age

       Prof Douglas Schmidt
       University of California at Irvine
           Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
           USA

9:45 -10:00      Tea break

10:00-11:30     FAULT TOLERANCE

 An Interoperable Replication Logic for CORBA Systems
 C. Marchetti, M. Mecella, A. Virgillito and R. Baldoni
 Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

 Transparent Consistent Replication of Java RMIT Objects
 N. Narasimhan, L.E. Moser and P.M. Melliar-Smith
 University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

 A Reliable Multicast Protocol in Networks with Mobile Hosts
 B. On, H. Shin, M. Choi and M.S. Park
 Korea University, Korea

11:30-13:00    PERFORMANCE

 DOORS: Towards High-Performance Fault Tolerant CORBA
 B. Natarajan (+), A. Gokhale and S. Yajnik (++), D.C. Schmidt (+++)
 (+) Washington University
 (++) Lucent Technologies
 (+++) University of California at Irvine, USA

 An Extended CORBA Event Service with Support for Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance
 K.S. Ho and H.V. Leong
 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

 Load Management for Distributed Object-Oriented Environments
 M. Lindermeier
 University of Munich, Germany

13:00-14:00    Lunch break

14:00-15:30    QoS ISSUES

 QoS-Constrained Event Communications In Distributed Virtual Environments
 D. Houatra
 France Telecom R&D (CNET), France

 Provisioning QoS in Real-Time Distributed Object Architectures for Power Plant Control Applications
 L. Bacon, E. Becquet, E. Gressier-Soudan et al.
 EDF, CEDRIC-CNAM, France

 Mapping Synchronisation Protocols onto Real-Time CORBA
 M. de Sousa
 Portugal
 

16:00-17:30     MOBILITY

 Efficient Execution Strategies for Mobile Procedures Querying Distributed Databases
 R. Vlach
 Charles University, Czech republic

 MODE: an Environment for Experimenting Mobility Policies
 G. Armano (+), A. Corradi (++), L. Leonardi (+), and E. Vargiu (+)
 (+) University of Cagliari, Italy
 (++) University of Bologna, Italy

 Mobile Code as an Enabling Technology for Service-Oriented Smartcard Middleware
 R. Kehr (+), M. Rohs and H. Vogt (++)
 (+) Deutsche Telekom AG
 (++) ETH Zurich
 

 Integrating Meta-Information Management and Reflection in Middleware
 F.M. Costa and G.S. Blair
 Lancaster University, England

 Meta Object Approach to Database Schema Integration
 J. Tan and A. Zaslavsky (+), A. and Bond (++)
 (+) Monash University, Australia
 (++) DSTC, Australia

 Effective Standards for Metadata in the GCMD Data Access System
 E. Lynch, O. Bukhres and Z.B. Miled (+), L. Olsen (++)
 (+) Indiana University Purdue University, USA
 (++) NASA, USA

Friday, September 22

9:30-11:00    WORLD WIDE WEB

 A Distributed-Object Infrastructure for Corporate Websites
 I. Kuz (+), P. Verkaik and  M. van Steen (++), H.J. Sips (+)
 (+) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
 (++) Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

 Mismatch between Executing Environments: Issues in Migrating distributed Object Applications to the Web
 S. Ringo Ling and V.N. Tran
 R & D RocketTalk Inc., USA

 Distributed Xbean Applications
 B.E. Martin
 MagelLang Institute

11:15-12:45     LANGUAGES & MODELS & POLICIES

 Using COALA for the Development of a Distributed Object-based Application
 J. Vachon (+), N. Guelfi (++) and A. Romanovsky (+++)
 (+) EPFL, Switzerland
 (++) Luxembourg University of Applied Sciences, Luxembourg
 (+++) University of Newcastle, England

 A Comparison of the Basic DO Concepts in Standardization
 X. Blanc and M.P. Gervais (+), and J. Le Delliou (++)
 (+) University of Paris 6, France
 (++) EDF, France

Policy Trading
 O. Hanssen and F. Eliassen
 Agder University College, Norway
 

14:00-15:30    CASE STUDIES

 A CORBA service for road traffic information on the internet
 M. Yearworth (+), N. Taylor, J. Tidmus and I. Fraser (++), and P. Still (+++)
 (+) University of the West England, England
 (++) Highways Agency, England
 (+++) Transport Research Laboratory Ltd, England

 Supervision of the CORBA Environment with SUMO: a WBEM/CIM-based Management Framework
 D. Bénech, F. Jocteur-Monrozier and A.I. Rivière
 (+) CNES Toulouse, France
 (++) Alcatel TITN Answare, France,

 Jini Technology Applied to Railway Systems
 T. Nieva (+), A. Fabri (++), A. Benammour (+)
 (+) EPFL, Switzerland
 (++) ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Switzerland

15:45-17:15    INTEROPERABILITY

 Design of a Middleware Service for Scalable Wide Area  Network Applications
 P.J. Marron
 University of Freiburg, Germany

 The Design of a Flexible Communications Framework for Next-Generation Middleware
 T. Kramp (+), G. Coulson (++)
 (+) University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
 (++) University of Lancaster, England

 CORBA Solutions for Interoperability in Mobile Agent Environments
 P. Bellavista and A. Corradi (+), C. Stefanelli (++)
 (+) University of Bologna, Italy
 (++) University of Ferrara, Italy
 

Distributed Application Integration: Myth or Reality?
Moderator:     Roberto Zicari
                          University Frankfurt & LogOn
                          Germany
Panelists:

                Pamela Drew (Boeing, USA)
                Jean-Francois Kaufeler (European Space Agency, Germany)
                Stephan Murer  (Credit Suisse, Switzerland)
                Doug Schmidt (University of California at Irvine, USA)

19:30    Conference dinner
 

Saturday, September 23

9:00-9:45    Keynote II

         Strategic use of CORBA in Credit Suisse

           Dr Stephan Murer
           Credit Suisse
           Switzerland

9:45-10:00    Tea break

10:00-11:30    DYNAMIC ISSUES
 

 Adaptability in CORBA: The Mobile Proxy Approach
 B. Aziz (+), C. Jensen (++)
 (+) Dublin City University, Ireland
 (++) University of Dublin, Ireland

 Towards a Dynamic CORBA Component Platform
 R. Marvie, P. Merle,  and J.-M. Geib
 University of Science and Technology of Lille, France

 Adaptabiliy of Object Distribution Protocols Using the Disguises Model Approach
 F. Sánchez, J. Hernández, J.M. Murillo, J.L. Herrero (+), and R. Rodriguez (++)
 (+) University of Extremadura, Spain
 (++) Teleserver Extremadura S.L., Spain
 

Spontaneous Networking with CORBA, Jini & JavaCards in RoamX, a Mobil X-Desktop
S. Rothkugel and P. Sturm
University of Trier, Germany

Information Exchange in a Distributed Visualization Architecture: the Shared Concept Space
B. Schönhage and A. Eliëns
Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

A Combat Management System Middleware Based on CORBA
A. Kutlusan, N.  Alltnidort, T. Oruk, A. Duman
Turkish Navy R&D Department, Turkey