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International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'99) September 5-6, 1999 Edinburgh, Scotland  http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/doa99

Saturday 4th
6:00-8:00pm

       Registration & Welcome Reception
     Darwin Building

Sunday 5th

8:00am
       Registration
      Darwin Building

8:50am
      Opening of the DOA'99 Symposium

       Prof Gordon Brebner
           Director of Institute for Computing
           Systems Architecture

       Brief statement on the program and DOA
      PC Co-chairs

9:05-9:45

       Keynote I

                                              Que Sera Sera:
           The Coincidental Confluence of Economics, Business, and Collaborative Computing

                                  Dr. Michael Brodie (GTE, USA)

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. El 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
 

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

       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

       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

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
 

        Adjourn
 

Monday 6th
         9:00am

 Keynote II

     A Distributed Object Web-Publishing Environment Using CORBA

                                       Al Issa (CNN, USA)

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
 

Track I: Semantics

Formal Support for the Engineering of CORBA-based distributed Object Systems
R. Bastide, O. Sy, and P. Palanque
Université 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
 

       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

         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

Invited Talk
Jeremy Birrell
IONA

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
 

           Scalability of CORBA to Global Information Systems
        Omran Bukhres (Purdue University), Chair
          Pam Drew (Boeing)
          Alfredo Issa (CNN)
          Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC)