DOA'2001 Advance Program

Keynote talks

Tutorials
 
Tutorial #1  Monday 17th September 
Theory and Practice of building Reliable Distributed Applications 
Mark Little, Santosh Shrivastava and Stuart Wheater 
09:00 -- 13:00
Tutorial # 2  Monday 17th September 
The Real-Time UML Standard: Definition and Application
Bran Selic 
14:00 --  18:00
Tutorial #3  Tuesday 18 September 
Policies and Patterns for High-performance,  Real-time Object Request Brokers
Douglas Schmidt 
13:30 -- 17:30
Tutorial # 4  Wednesday 19th September
Positioning CORBA, J2EE, Web Services and other Middlewares
Sean Baker and Declan O'Sullivan 
13:30 -- 17:30
Short/Poster Papers PhD Session Technical Program

Tuesday 18th September
 
08:00  Registration
08:45 -- 09:00: Opening Session (Local Person, PC Co-chairs, General Co-chairs)
09:00 -- 09:40: Keynote I: XML Web Services: What, Why, and How
Jim Miller
Microsoft
09:40 -- 10:30: Industrial Experience I
Session Chair: Bran Selic
Business Process Integration for Distributed Applications in Radiology
Jens von Berg, Joachim Schmidt, and Thomas Wendler
Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany
A Case Study In Testing Distributed Systems
Brad Long (+) and Á Paul Strooper (++)
(+) QSI Payments Inc. & University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
(++) QSI Payments Inc., Brisbane, Australia
10:30 -- 11:00:  Coffee/ Tea break
 11:00 -- 12:30:  Mobility
Session Chair: Douglas Schmidt
An Object-oriented Organic Architecture for Next Generation Intelligent Reconfigurable Mobile Networks
George R. Ribeiro-Justo (+) and Tereska Karran (++)
(+) Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, UK
(++) University of Westminster, UK
Mobile RMI: Supporting Remote Access to Java Server Objects on Mobile Hosts
Tom Wall (+) and Vinny Cahill (++)
(+)  Broadcom Eireann Research Ltd., Dublin, Ireland
(++) University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Mobile CORBA
Sandeep Adwankar
Motorola Labs, US
12:30 -- 13:30: Lunch break
13:30 -- 15:00: Monitoring and Management
Session Chair: Hong Va Leong
How to Monitor and Control Resource Usage in Mobile Agent  Systems
Paolo Bellavista and Antonio Corradi (+), and Cesare Stefanelli (++)
(+) Università di Bologna, Italy
(++)  Università di Ferrara, Italy
Distributed Access Knowledge-Based System: Reified Interaction Service for Trace and Control
Anne-Marie Déryn (+), Mireille Blay-Fornarino (+), Sabine Moisan (++), Borice Arcier (+) and  Léonard Mule (+)
(+) I3S ESSI, Sophia-Antipolis, France
(++) INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
TransWeb: A Framework For Development of Transparent Load-balanced Web Applications
Anurag Choudhary and T.V. Prabhakar
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
 15:00 -- 15:30: Coffee/ Tea break
15:30 -- 17:30: Metadata Services
Session Chair: Omran Bukhres
Transparent Dissemination of Adapters in Jini
Julien Vayssiere
 INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Managing CORBA objects with dynamic behaviour in a Directory
Thierry Delot and Béatrice Finance
University of Versailles, Paris, France
Trading Media Gateways with CORBA Trader
 Hans Ole Rafaelsen (+) and Frank Eliassen (++)
(+) University of Tromso, Norway
(++) University of Oslo, Norway
Component Search Service and Deployment of Distributed Applications
D. Kebbal and G. Bernard
National Institute of Telecomunication, Evry, France
17:30 -- 18:30: Poster Session (with drinks/ snacks)

 Wednesday 19th September
 
09:00 -- 09:40:  Keynote II: A2A, B2B - now we need M2M (middleware to middleware) technology
Sean Baker
IONA Technologies
0940 -- 10:30: Industrial Experience II
Session Chair: Zahir Tari
NASA Global Change Master Directory: An Implementation of Asynchronous, Management Protocol in a Heterogeneous Distributed Environment
K. Siram Nagendra, O. Bukhres,  S. Sikkupparbathyam, and M. Areal (+)
Z. ben Miled (++)
L . Olsen, C. Gokey, D. Kendig, T Northcutt, R. Kordova, and G. Major (+++)
(+) Purdue University School of Science, Indiana, USA
(++) Purdue University School of Engineering, Indiana, USA
(+++) Global Change Data Center NASA, Maryland, USA
In Search of Commercial off the Shelf (COTS), Hard Real-time, Object Oriented Middleware
Gautam H. Thaker and Patrick J. Lardieri
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, USA
10:30 -- 1100: Coffee/ Tea break
11:00 -- 12:30:  Enterprise Architectures/ Workflow
Session Chair: Hong Va Leong
ODSI: Enterprise Service Co-ordination
Andy Bond
DSTC Pty Ltd & University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
From Functional to Architectural Analysis of a Middleware Supporting Interoperability Across Heterogeneous Distribution Models
Thomas Quinot (+), Fabrice Kordon (++), and Laurent Pautet (+)
(+) Ecole Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
(++) University Pierre & Marie-Curie, Paris, France
A Collaborative Word Processing Systems using a CORBA-based Workflow System
Kei Ho and Hong Va Leong (+),  Wai Lam (++)
(+) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
(++) Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
12:30 -- 13:30: Lunch break
13:30 -- 15:00:  Reflection/ Re-Configuration
Session Chair: Robert Meersman
Reflective Component-Based & Architecture Aware Framework to Manage Architecture Composition
Rui Silva Moreira and Gordon S. Blair (+), and Eurico Carrapatoso (++)
(+) Lancaster University, UK
(++) University of Porto, Portugal
Transparent Dynamic Reconfiguration for CORBA
João Paulo A. Almeida (+), Maarten Wegdam (+) (++), Marten van Sinderen (+) and  Lambert Nieuwenhuis (+)
(+) University of Twente, Twente, The Netherlands
(++) Lucent Technologies, Twente, The Netherlands
CORBA Request Portable Interceptors: A Performance Analysis
 Carlos Marchetti, L. Verde and Roberto Baldoni
Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
15:00 -- 15:30: Coffee/ Tea break
15:30 -- 17:00:  Fault-Tolerance
Session Chair: Arnon Rosenthal
ADAPTATION - Algorithms to ADAPTive FAulT MonItOriNg and their Implementation on CORBA
Irineu Sotoma and Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira
Campinas University, Campinas, Brazil
Lightweight Fault Tolerance in CORBA
Pascal Felber
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Reliable Messaging Using the CORBA Notification Service
Srinivasan Ramani (+), Balakrishnan Dasarathy (++) and Kishor S. Trivedi (+)
(+) Duke University, Durham, USA
(++) Telcordia Technologies, Morristown, USA
17:00-18:00 Industry talks
Session Chair: Roberto Baldoni
Industry speakers from 
Itaca, Smarten, and Telespazio
18:00 -- 19:00: Industrial Panel -- Any Questions
Gordon Blair and Doug Schmidt (chairs)
 20:00  Conference Dinner

Thursday 20th September
 
09:00 -- 09:40: Keynote III: Real-Time Distributed Object Computing: Ready For Mission-Critical Embedded System Applications 
David Sharp
The Boeing Company 
09:40 -- 10:40: Applications 
Session Chair: Douglas Schmidt
Distributed Object Programming Environment for Smart Card Application Development
Alvin T.S. Chan, Florine Tse, Jiannong Cao and Hong Va Leong
Hong Kong University, China
Developing Mobile Agent Organizations: A Case Study in Digital Tourism
Franco Zambonelli, Giacomo Cabri, and Letizia Leonard
Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
A Distributed Object Computing Approach to E-Learning
Luis Anido, Martín Llamas, Manuel J. Fernández, Judith Rodríguez, Juan Santos and Manuel Caeiro
University of Vigo, Spain
10:40 -- 11:00: Coffee/ Tea break
11:00 -- 12:30: Multimedia
Session Chair: Roberto Baldoni
Supporting Distributed Processing of Time-based Media Streams
Viktor S. Wold Eide, Frank Eliassen and Olav Lysne
University of Oslo, Norway
Applying Meta-Programming Techniques to Reconcile Heterogeneous  Scheduling Policies in Open Distributed Real-Time Systems
Angelo Corsaro, Chris Gill, and Ron Cytron (+), Douglas C. Schmidt (++)
(+) Washington University, St Louis, USA
(++) University of California, Irvine, USA
Application of the QuO Quality-of-Service Framework to a Distributed Video Application
David A. Karr, Craig Rodrigues, Joseph P. Loyall, and Richard E. Schantz (+)
Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Irfan Pyarali (++)
Douglas C. Schmidt (+++)
(+) BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA
(++) Washington University, St Louis, USA
(+++) University of California, Irvine, USA
12:30 -- 13:30: Lunch break
13:30 -- 15:30: Replication & Transactions
Session Chair: Gordon Blair
Coordinating the Simultaneous Upgrade of Multiple CORBA Application Objects
L. A. Tewksbury, L. E. Moser, and P. M. Melliar-Smith
University of California, Santa Barbara,USA
Optimization of Nested Invocation on Replicas in Object-based Systems
Katsuya Tanaka and Makoto Takizawa
Tokyo Denki University, Japan
End-to-End Transactions in Three-Tier Systems
D. Zhang and W. Zorn
Karlsruhe University, Germany
Middleware Mediated Transactions
Christoph Liebig (+) and Stefan Tai (++)
(+) Darmstadt University, Germany
(++) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
 15:30 -- 15:45: Closing Session 
Robert Meersman