1. DOA 1999: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, 5-7 September, 1999, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. IEEE Computer Society, online proceedings: http://computer.org/proceedings/doa/0182/0182toc.htm

Keynote I

Michael L. Brodie: Que Sera Sera: The Coincidental Confluence of Economics, Business, and Collaborative Computing.

Track I: Bindings

Øyvind Hanssen, Frank Eliassen:
A Framework for Policy Bindings. 2-11
Daniel Wu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
StratOSphere: Unification of Code, Data, Location, Scope, and Mobility. 12-23

Track II: Agents

Yue-Shan Chang, Hsin-Chun Hsieh, Shyan-Ming Yuan, Winston Lo:
An Agent-based Search Engine based on the Internet Search Service on the CORBA. 26-33
Luís Moura Silva, Victor Batista, Paulo Martins, Guilherme Soares:
Using Mobile Agents for Parallel Processing. 34-42

Track I: Database Aspects

Susan Spence:
PJRMI: Remote Method Invocation for a Persistent System. 44-53
Marek Machura:
The Data Network: A Distributed Object View of Dynamic Data Management. 54-65

Track II: Database Aspects

Luigi Mazzucchelli:
A Model for Java/CORBA and OODBMS Distributed Architectures. 68-76
Miyi Chung, Ruth Wilson, Kevin Shaw, Maria Cobb:
Distributing Mapping Objects with the Geospatial Information Database. 77-85

Track I: Fault Tolerance

P. Emerald Chung, Woei-Jyh Lee, Joanne Shih, Shalini Yajnik, Yennun Huang:
Fault-Injection Experiments for Distributed Objects. 88-97
Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Priya Narasimhan, Ruppert R. Koch, K. Berket:
Multicast Group Communication for CORBA. 98-107

Track II: Performance

Paul Martin, Victor Callaghan, Adrian Clark:
High Performance Distributed Objects using Caching Proxies for Large Scale Applications. 110-119
Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine:
The Performance of a Real-time I/O Subsystem for QoS-enabled ORB Middleware. 120-129

Track I: Replication and Fault Tolerance

Pascal Felber, Xavier Défago, Rachid Guerraoui, Philipp Oser:
Failure Detectors as First Class Objects. 132-141
Hiroaki Higaki, Katsuya Tanaka, Makoto Takizawa:
Pseudo-Active Replication of Distributed Objects in Wide-Area Networks. 142-148

Track II: Replication and Load Balancing

Katsuya Tanaka, Hiroaki Higaki, Makoto Takizawa:
Quorum-based Locking Protocol for Replicated Objects. 150-157
Thomas Barth, Gerd Flender, Bernd Freisleben, Frank Thilo:
Load Distribution in a CORBA Environment. 158-166

Track I: Case Studies

Alex Sim, Henrik Nordberg, Luis M. Bernardo, Arie Shoshani, Doron Rotem:
Storage Access Coordination using CORBA. 168-175
Bahram Parvin, John R. Taylor, Ge Cong:
DeepView: A Channel for Distributed Microscopy. 176-182
Roger Barnett, Tor Neple, Jack Hassall:
Developing a Global Standard for Interoperable Accounting Systems. 183-188

Track II: Interoperability

Markus Aleksy, Axel Korthaus:
Interoperability of Java-based Applications and SAP's Business Framework State of the Art and Desirable Developments. 190-200
Twittie Senivongse:
Enabling Flexible Cross-Version Interoperability from Distributed Services. 201-210
Jérôme Daniel, Bruno Traverson, Vincent Vallée:
Active COM: An Inter-Working Framework for CORBA and DCOM. 211-222

Keynote II

Al Issa: A Distributed Object Web-Publishing Environment using CORBA.

Track I: Case Studies

Ismael Sanz, Luigi Mazzucchelli:
Distributed Objects in a Large Scale Text Processing Systems (Industrial Case Study). 224-229
Gregory Craske, Zahir Tari, Kiran R. Kumar:
DOK-Trader: A CORBA Persistent Trader with Query Routing Facilities. 230-240

Track II: Workflows

Ibrahim Cingil, Asuman Dogac, Nesime Tatbul, Sena Nural Arpinar:
An Adaptable Workflow System Architecture on the Internet for Electronic Commerce Applications. 242-251
Omran A. Bukhres, Dong Hoang:
CORBA-based Architecture for Image Workflow in a Large Consortium of Hospitals. 252-261

Track I: Semantics

Rémi Bastide, Ousmane Sy, Philippe A. Palanque:
Formal Support for the Engineering of CORBA-based Distributed Object Systems. 264-272
R. Durrant, G. J. Sweeney, Martin Fleury, Andy C. Downton, Adrian F. Clark:
Providing Structure for Medium-Grained Distributed Object-based Computation. 273-281

Track II: Transactions

David B. Ingham, Owen Rees, Andy Norman:
CORBA Transactions through Firewalls. 284-195
Prabhu Ram, Lyman Do, Pamela Drew, Tong Zhou:
Object Transaction Service: Experiences and Open Issues. 296-304

Track I: Quality of Service

Thomas Plagemann, Frank Eliassen, Vera Goebel, Tom Kristensen, Hans Ole Rafaelsen:
Adaptive QoS Aware Binding of Persistent Multimedia Objects. 306-317
Aart van Halteren, A. Noutash, Lambert J. M. Nieuwenhuis, Maarten Wegdam:
Extending CORBA with Specialised Protocols for QoS Provisioning. 318-327

Track II: Processing

Sharma Chakravarthy, Roger Le, Rajesh Dasari:
ECA Rule Processing in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments. 330-339
John R. Monde, Maria Cobb:
Parallel Data Processing in a Distributed Object-Oriented Model. 340-349

Track I: Components

John Todd, Christian Och, Roger King, Richard Osborne, William J. McIver Jr., Nathan Getrich, Brian Temple:
Building Mediators from Components. 352-361
Renato Cerqueira, Carlos Cassino, Roberto Ierusalimschy:
Dynamic Component Gluing Across Different Componentware Systems. 362-371

Track II: Potpourri

María Ángeles Díaz Fondón, Darío Álvarez Gutiérrez, Armando García-Mendoza Sánchez, Fernando Álvarez García, Lourdes Tajes Martínez, Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle:
Integrating Capabilities into the Object Model to Protect Distributed Object Systems. 374-383