3nd International Symposium on Distributed Objects & Applications September 18-20, 2001, Rome, Italy http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/doa/2001/ Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press

Are you building applications using distributed object computing (DOC)?
Are you doing research in fundamental technology, methodology or new tools for DOC?
Are you using some of the existing distributed object systems?

Consider contributing a practice report or a research paper to this innovative event, and to present, discuss and obtain feedback for your ideas among other practitioners and researchers active in the same area.

There is increasing agreement among IT researchers and practitioners about the importance and potential of distributed object systems and the advances in this area made in recent years. These systems offer many promises for use in various applications, including telecommunications, banking applications and many other domains. DOC systems are starting to offer practical, real-life production solutions to technical problems, including interoperability across different software and database platforms. Distributed object systems are built according to different paradigms and architectures, such as OMG's CORBA, Microsoft's COM and other object request broker principles and implementations, and contingent technologies such as SUN's Java-based active objects, to provide a basis for building complex distributed applications.

The future success of DOC systems will not only be dependent on how the basic requirements (to develop open, reliable and scalable distributed and heterogeneous applications and platforms) are met but also how the underlying distributed object technology can be integrated with existing complementary technologies and applications, such as WWW, multimedia and databases. The reengineering of legacy systems may substantially benefit from the use of DOC, e.g. when turning them into data warehouses. Further standardization of distributed object concepts will very likely unlock many new areas of application still.

TWO DIMENSIONS: Research & Practice

 
As research in DOC establishes new principles, enhancing our understanding of the fundamental issues involved, and opening the way to new tools and methodologies for DOC, so conversely practical experience in real-life DOC projects drives the avenues of this same research by exposing new ideas and posing new types of problems to be solved. With the DOA Symposium we explicitly intend to provide a forum to help this mutual interaction occur, and to trigger and foster it. Submissions can be entered along both these dimensions: research (theory, fundamentals, principles of DOC) and practice (applications, experience, pragmatics of DOC). Contributions attempting to cross over the gap between these two dimensions will, of course, be especially welcome.
 
As we are fully aware of the differences in environment for research and development that exist in academia and industry, submissions from each will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers) but for originality and generality of application (in the case of "case studies" papers). Papers of each type will be presented in parallel tracks at the Symposium, but with maximal opportunity for interaction for researchers and developers working on related topics.

 
To summarize, during the DOA'2000 Symposium we therefore want attendees to be able to evaluate existing ORB middleware products; to analyze, and propose solutions to major limitations of existing products; and to indicate promising future research directions for distributed objects. We are particularly interested in the evaluation of existing DOC systems and how they are used to design and to implement large scale industrial distributed applications. We are seeking theoretical as well as practical papers addressing innovative issues related to distributed objects.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
• Critique of the distributed object paradigm
• Distributed business objects
• Distributed and mobile agents
• Design patterns for distributed object design
• Database services, in particular persistency, transaction, query and replication services
• Integration of distributed object and Web technologies
• Intelligent traders
• Interoperability-supporting environments
• Integration with database systems and interfaces
• Methodologies to develop distributed object applications
• Reintegration of legacy systems in DOC environments
• Design of CORBA, COM- and Java-based broker applications
• Multimedia distributed objects
• Multicast protocols for distributed objects
• Object caching
• Reliability, fault-tolerance and recovery
• Real-time ORB middleware
• Reports on Best Practice
• Security
• Specification and enforcement of quality of service
• Standardization of distributed objects
• Wrapper libraries and wrapper implementation strategies

IMPORTANT DATES

Electronic submission:	April 1, 2001
Notification of acceptance:	June 7, 2001
Camera-ready copies:	July  8, 2001
Symposium:	September 18-20, 2001

SUBMISSION DETAILS

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions should be clearly labeled "Research", "Practice" or "PC discretion". All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports.  All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Practice reports must not exceed 5,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript or HTML format and should be sent to doa2001@cs.rmit.edu.au. All submissions must be accompanied by a separate email message with the following information on the paper:

title
author(s)
affiliation(s)
e-mail and address of the contact author
optional list of (key)words to appear in the index classification as research, practice or at discretion of PC formal commitment, if paper is accepted, to register for DOA'2001 and present the paper

Please make sure that your PostScript file can be previewed with GhostScript and is printable on a standard PostScript printer. We also accept Microsoft Word submissions. If electronic submission is not possible, please send an e-mail to

       doa2001@cs.rmit.edu.au

to make special arrangements, at least two weeks before the submission deadline. The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. Failure to commit presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
 

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Robert Meersman STARLab Free University of Brussels Building F-G 10, Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium meersman@vub.ac.be Fax: ++32 (2) 629-3525

Zahir Tari RMIT University Department of Computer Science City Campus, GPO Box 2476V Melbourne, VIC 3001 Australia zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au Tel: ++61-3-9925-3782 Fax: ++61-3-9662-1617

Gordon Blair Computing Department Faculty of Applied Sciences Engineering Building Lancaster University Lancaster, UK LA1 4YR gordon@comp.lancs.ac.uk Tel: +44 1524 593809 Fax: +44 1524 593608

Douglas Schmidt Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Irvine 616E Engineering Tower Irvine, CA 92697-2625 schmidt@uci.edu Tel: +1-949-824-1901 Fax: +1-949-824-2321

Makoto Takizawa Tokyo Denki University Department of Computers and Systems Engineering Ishizaka, Hatoyama Saitama 350-0394 Japan taki@takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp Tel:  +81-492-96-2911  Fax.  +81-492-96-6185

Roberto Baldoni Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 I-00198 Roma Italy baldoni@dis.uniroma1.it

Roberto Baldoni Università di Roma "La Sapienza" Department of Computer Science Via Salaria 113 I-00198 Roma Italy baldoni@dis.uniroma1.it

David Taniar (Chair) Monash University Dept. of Computer Science Melbourne, Australia

Fabio M. Costa Dept of Computer Science Lancaster Unniversity UK

Fabio Kon Department of Computer Science University of Sao Paulo Brazil

 

Sean Baker	(IONA, Ireland)
David E. Bakken	(Washington State University, USA)
Jose Blakeley	(Microsoft, USA)
Anthony Bloesch	(Microsoft, USA)
Omar Boucelma	(Universite de Province, France)
Omran Bukhres	(Purdue University, USA)
Akmal B. Chaudhri	(Informix Software, UK)
Cregory Craske	(RMIT University, Australia)
Asuman Dogac	(Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Pamela Drew	(Boeing, USA)
Chris Gokey	(NASA, USA)
Rachid Guerraoui	(EPFL, Switzerland)
Arno Jacobsen	(University of Toronto, Canada)
Roger King	(University of Colorado, USA)
Sacha Krakowiak	(University of Grenoble, France)
Bernd  Krämer	(FernUniversität Hagen, Germany)
Doug Lea	(State University of New York, USA)
Hong Va Leong	(Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Carlo Marchetti	(Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Frank Manola	(The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Jishnu Mukerji	(HP New Jersey Labs, USA)
Mike P. Papazoglou	(Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Kerry Raymond	(DSTC, Australia)
Richard Soley	(OMG, USA)
Rick Schantz	(BBN Technologies, USA)
Marc H. Scholl	(Universität Konstanz, Germany)
Jean-Bernard  Stefani	(INRIA Rhone Alpes, France)
Katsuya Tanaka	(Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
David Taniar	(Monash University, Australia)
Hakki Toroslu	(Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
Yu-Chee Tseng	(National Central University, Taiwan)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian	(University of California at Irvine, USA)
Wilfried Verachtert	(MediaGenix, Belgium)
Shalini Yajnik	(Bell Labs, USA)
Andrew Watson	(OMG, USA)
Albert Zamoya	(University of Western Australia, Australia)
George Mon Zhijing	(Boeing, USA)
Roberto Zicari	(University of Frankfurt, Germany)