Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 4th Ifip Wg6.1 International Conference, Dais 2003, Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003, Proceedin

ISBN-13: 9783540205296 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 318 str.

Jean-Bernard Stefani; Isabelle Demeure; Daniel Hagimont

Opis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2003, held in Paris, France, in November 2003.The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation and separation of concerns; deployment; security and transactions; replication; networking and routing; discovery, context-awareness, and ontologies; and asynchronous messaging.

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Session I: Adaptation – Separation of Concerns.- Towards a Framework for Self-adaptive Component-Based Applications.- A Scheme for the Introduction of 3rd Party, Application-Specific Adaptation Features in Mobile Service Provision.- Brenda: Towards a Composition Framework for Non-orthogonal Non-functional Properties.- Meta-programming Middleware for Distributed Object Computing.- Session II: Deployment.- Middleware Support for Resource-Constrained Software Deployment.- Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents.- Facilitating the Portability of User Applications in Grid Environments.- Negotiation as a Generic Component Coordination Primitive.- Session III: Security – Transactions.- Jironde: A Flexible Framework for Making Components Transactional.- A Security Architectural Approach for Risk Assessment Using Multi-agent Systems Engineering.- Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Transactional Information Sharing between Enterprises.- Adaptable Access Control Policies for Medical Information Systems.- Session IV: Replication.- Client-Side Component Caching.- A Variable Cache Consistency Protocol for Mobile Systems Using Time Locks.- DataWarp: Building Applications Which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World.- Hand-Over Video Cache Policy for Mobile Users.- Session V: Networking and Routing.- Planning for Network-Aware Paths.- Integrating the Unreliable Multicast Inter-ORB Protocol in MJaco.- A-GATE: A System of Relay and Translation Gateways for Communication among Heterogeneous Agents in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments.- Session VI: Discovery – Context-Awareness – Ontology.- Scalable Location Management for Context-Aware Systems.- CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to Enable Contextual Interoperability.- Discovering Web Services Using Behavioural Constraints and Ontology.- Requirements for Personal Information Agents in the Semantic Web.- Towards an Intuitive Interface for Tailored Service Compositions.- Session VII: Asynchronous Messaging.- Context-Based Addressing: The Concept and an Implementation for Large-Scale Mobile Agent Systems Using Publish-Subscribe Event Notification.- Exploiting Proximity in Event-Based Middleware for Collaborative Mobile Applications.- A Flexible Middleware Layer for User-to-User Messaging.