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Distributed
Objects and Applications
3-7 November 2003,
Catania, Sicily (Italy)
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Are you building applications
using distributed-object technology?
Are you doing research in
distributed object-based systems?
Are you using existing distributed-object
systems?
In other words: are you
actively involved in distributed objects and applications (DOAs)?
Consider contributing a practice report or a research paper to this innovative event to present, discuss and obtain feedback for your ideas among other practitioners and researchers active in the same area.
There is agreement among researchers and practioners about the importance and potential of distributed-object systems. These systems offer many promises for use in various applications, including telecommunications, embedded systems, databases, Web services, and so on. Distributed-object systems offer practical, real-world production solutions to technical problems, including interoperability across different hardware, software, and database platforms. There are several widely used and emerging distributed-object computing platforms, including CORBA, COM, SOAP, .NET, and EJB.
The success of distributed-object systems depends on how basic requirements are met, such as openness, reliability, scalability, distribution transparency, security, and support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Equally important is how integration with complementary technology such as WWW, multimedia systems, databases, and peer-to-peer systems is accomplished. These issues have only been partly solved, and substantial research in systems aspects as well as component and application development is still needed, notably when dealing with large-scale systems and applications.
TWO DIMENSIONS: Research & Practice
Research in distributed objects, components, systems, and applications establishes new principles that open the way to solutions that can meet the requirements of tomorrow's DOAs. Conversely, practical experience in real-world DOA projects drives 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 DOA) and practice (applications, experience, pragmatics of DOA). Contributions attempting to cross over the gap between these two dimensions are particularly welcomed.
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.
During the DOA'2003 Symposium we want attendees to be able to evaluate distributed-object middleware systems and products; to analyze, and propose solutions to major limitations of existing products; and to indicate promising future research directions for distributed objects and applications.
DOA'2003 Symposium is a joint event with two other conferences organized within the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003". This federated event co-locates three related and complementary successful conferences in the areas of Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'03), Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'03), and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'03), as required for the deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. All three events will be hosted in Sicily during the first week of November 2003. More details about this federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:
Applications of distributed-object technology Applying Model Driven Architecture (MDA) Component-based software development and enterprise-based component architectures Design of CORBA, .NET, and Java-based broker applications Design patterns for object-based components and applications Distributed business objects and components Distributed object databases Distributed object deployment, configuration, and metadata Integration of distributed objects and agent technology Integration of distributed objects and peer-to-peer technology Integration of multimedia and streaming technology with distributed objects Interoperability between object systems and complementary technology Management for distributed-object systems Mobility for distributed objects and object middleware Object-based Web services Pervasive distributed objects Real-time solutions for distributed objects Scalability for distributed objects and object middleware Security for distributed-object systems Software engineering for distributed object-based applications Solutions for (massive) caching and replication of distributed objects Specification, but notably enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) for distributed objects Technologies for reliable and fault-tolerant distributed objects Web-based distributed objects
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003
Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): June 22, 2003
Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2003
Final Version Due: August 30, 2003
Conference: November 3-7, 2003
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
Program Committee Co-Chairs
(doa2003@cs.rmit.edu.au)
Bernd Krämer, Fern
Universität in Hagen, Germany
Maarten van Steen, Vrije
Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steve Vinoski, IONA, USA
Publicity Chair
Guillaume
Pierre, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Program Committee Members
Gul Agha (University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign)
Matthias Anlauff (Kestrel
Institute)
Egidio Astesiano (University
of Genova)
Ozalp Babaoglu (University
of Bologna)
Jean Bacon (University of
Cambridge)
Mark Baker (Independent)
Sean Baker (IONA)
Roberto Baldoni (Universita
di Roma "La Sapienza")
Guruduth Banavar (IBM)
Judith Bishop (University
of Pretoria)
Gordon Blair (Lancaster
University)
Michel Chaudron (Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Shing-Chi Cheung (Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology)
Francisco "Paco" Curbera
(IBM)
Wolfgang Emmerich (University
College London)
Pascal Felber (Institut
EURECOM)
Mohand-Said Hacid (Université
Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
Daniel Hagimont (INRIA)
Franz Hauck (University
of Ulm, Germany)
Arno Jacobsen (University
of Toronto)
Mehdi Jazayeri (Technical
University of Vienna)
Fabio Kon (University of
São Paulo)
Doug Lea (State University
of New York)
Hong Va Leong (Hong Kong
Polytechnic University)
Peter Loehr (University
of Berlin)
Joe Loyall (BBN Technologies
)
Frank Manola (MITRE)
Keith Moore (HP)
Priya Narasimhan (Carnegie
Mellon University)
Andry Rakotonirainy (The
University of Queensland, Australia)
Heinz-W Schmidt (Monash
University, Australia)
Richard Soley (OMG)
Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA)
Joe Sventek (University
of Glasgow)
Stefan Tai (IBM)
Guatam Thaker (Lockheed
Martin, USA)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian
(University of California at Irvine)
Norbert Voelker (University
of Essex)
Andrew Watson (OMG)
Doug Wells (The Open Group)
Shalini Yajnik (PreCache
Inc.)