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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in November 2001.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Java, mobility, distributed abstractions, reliability, home and office, scalability, and quality of service.
List of contents
Java.- Automated Analysis of Java Message Service Providers.- Efficient Object Caching for Distributed Java RMI Applications.- Entity Bean A, B, C's: Enterprise Java Beans Commit Options and Caching.- Mobility.- A WAP-Based Session Layer Supporting Distributed Applications in Nomadic Environments.- Middleware for Reactive Components: An Integrated Use of Context, Roles, and Event Based Coordination.- Experiments in Composing Proxy Audio Services for Mobile Users.- Distributed Abstractions.- Thread Transparency in Information Flow Middleware.- Abstracting Services in a Heterogeneous Environment.- An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware.- Reliability.- Rule-Based Transactional Object Migration over a Reflective Middleware.- The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions.- Failure Mode Analysis of CORBA Service Implementations.- Home & Office.- ROOM-BRIDGE: Vertically Configurable Network Architecture and Real-Time Middleware for Interoperability between Ubiquitous Consumer Devices in the Home.- Reducing the Energy Usage of Office Applications.- System Software for Audio and Visual Networked Home Appliances on Commodity Operating Systems.- Scalability.- Access Control and Trust in the Use of Widely Distributed Services.- Preserving Causality in a Scalable Message-Oriented Middleware.- Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Quality of Service.- Providing QoS Customization in Distributed Object Systems.- 2K Q+: An Integrated Approach of QoS Compilation and Reconfigurable, Component-Based Run-Time Middleware for the Unified QoS Management Framework.
About the author
Rachid Guerraoui is Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (LPD), at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Summary
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in November 2001.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Java, mobility, distributed abstractions, reliability, home and office, scalability, and quality of service.
