Final program for DAIS'99

We are looking forward to meeting you in Helsinki for DAIS'99!

Monday, June 28

9:00 - 17:00 Tutorial track A

• 9:00 - 12:00 Morning session A1
  • Jon Siegel, OMG USA:
    Introduction to CORBA and the OMA
• 13:30 - 17:00 Afternoon session A2
  Jon Siegel, OMG USA:
  What's new in CORBA 3

8:30 - 17:00 Tutorial track B

• 8:30 - 12:00 Morning session B1
  • Sridhar Iyengar, UNISYS USA:
    Distributed Object Repositories : Enterprise software integration using Metadata and Distributed Objects
• 13:30 - 17:00 Afternoon session B2
  • Albert Cheng, University of Houston, USA:
    Distributed and parallel real-time systems

10:00 Accompanying persons get-together

• AREA congress team will have someone at our service throughout the event. As AREA is essentially a travel agency, all tourist services are easily available.
• Program will be prepared if interest arises, otherwise we will work ad-hoc.

Tuesday, June 29

8:30-9:00 Opening session

9:00-10:00 Invited talk

• WAP architecture for mobile distributed applications
  Pertti Lounamaa
  Nokia, Finland

10:30 - 12:30 Quality of service

• Fault management in QoS-enabled distributed systems
  Stefan Kätker and Kurt Geihs
  IBM European Networking Center, Heidelberg, Germany ; University of Frankfurt, Germany

• A QoS support framework for dynamically reconfigurable multimedia applications
  Scott Mitchell, Hani Naguib, George Coulouris and Tim Kindberg
  University of London, UK

• Integration of quality of service in distributed object systems
  Jerome Daniel (1,2), Bruno Traverson (1) and Sylvie Vignes (2)
  (1) Electricité de France, France ; (2) ENST, France

• Flexible event-based threading for QoS-supporting middleware
  Thorsten Kramp and Rainer Koster
  University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Invited talk

• An ODP approach to the development of large middleware systems
  Peter Linington
  University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

15:30 - 17:00 Open architectures

• Sovereign systems and dynamic federations
  Lea Kutvonen
  University of Helsinki, Finland

• On the design of interworking reference points for information networking
  Tim Eckardt, Christian Egelhaaf and Peter Schoo
  GMD Fokus, Germany

• Extending TINA to support service customization
  Linas Maknavicius (1), Gautier Koscielny (2) and Simon Znaty (1)
  (1) ENST Bretagne, Cesson Sévigné, France ; (2) Université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France

Wednesday, June 30

8:30 - 9:30 Invited talk

• An overview of CORBA 3
  Jon Siegel
  OMG, USA

10:00 - 11:30 Frameworks and tools

• A Component framework for the configuration management of networks
  Michael Wimmers (1), Arnulf Mester (1,2) and Heiko Krumm (2)
  (1) Dr. Materna GmbH, Dortmund, Germany ; (2) University of Dortmund, Germany

• A flexible framework for development of component-based distributed systems
  Arnor Solberg, Tor Neple, Jon Oldevik and Bĺrd Kvalheim
  SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Norway

• The Lilith framework for the rapid development of secure scalable tools for distributed computing (short paper)
  David Evensky, Ann Gentile, Pete Wyckoff and Robert Armstrong
  Sandia National Laboratories, USA

• CORBA wrappers for a-posteriori management: an approach to integrating management with existing heterogeneous systems (short paper)
  Steffen Lipperts and Dirk Thissen
  RWTH Aachen, Germany

11:30 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Invited talk

• What is new around Java?
  Simon Ritter
  Sun Microsystems, UK

14:30 - 16:30 Agents and mobility

• Mobile agents and security: protocols for integrity
  Antonio Corradi, Marco Cremonini, Rebecca Montanari and Cesare Stefanelli
  Universitá di Bologna, Italy

• Invoking computational objects on mobile devices
  Axel Küpper and Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
  RWTH Aachen, Germany ; LMU München, Germany

• Scenario-driven design considerations for MANET protocols (short paper)
  Jari Malinen, Hannu Kari and Mikko Tiusanen
  Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

• CIA - a collaboration and coordination infrastructure for personal agents (short paper)
  Frank Kargl, Torsten Illmann and Michael Weber
  University of Ulm, Germany

• An intra- and inter-domain placement using a multicriteria method to optimize resource access in CORBA (short paper)
  Huah Yong Chan and Benedicte Herrmann
  Laboratoire d' Informatique de Besançon, France

Thursday, July 1

8:30 - 10:00 Parallel sessions

Management aspects

• Automated CORBA-based application management
  Reinhold Kröger (1), Markus Debusmann (1,2), Christoph Weyer (1,2), Erik Brossler (1), Paul Davern (2) and Aiden McDonald (2)
  (1) University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany ; (2) Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

• A configuration management facility for CORBA applications
  Claudio Silveira and Edmundo Madeira
  University of Campinas, Brazil

• Flexible software agents for the automatic provision of PVCs in ATM networks (short paper)
  Morsy Cheikhrouhou, Pierre Conti and Jacques Labetoulle
  Institut Eurécom, France

• Multi-layer monitoring in distributed object-environments (short paper)
  Günther Rackl
  TU München, Germany

Language interoperability

• Can Corba save a fringe language from becoming obsolete?
  Susan Eisenbach (1), Emil Lupu (1), Karen Meidl (1) and Hani Rizkallah (2)
  (1) Imperial College London, UK ; (2) Andersen Consulting, UK

• Programming language interoperability in distributed computing environments
  Arno Jacobsen
  Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

• Consistent windowing interfaces in distributed heterogeneous environments
  Daniel Owen and Alasdair Rawsthorne
  University of Manchester, UK

10:30 - 12:00 Parallel sessions

Workflow and UML issues

• Experiences with business object-based workflow support
  Alexander Schill and Christian Mittasch
  TU Dresden, Germany ; TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

• A process decomposition technique for distributed workflow management
  Giacomo Piccinelli
  Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

• Constraint-oriented formal modelling of OO-systems
  Günter Graw, Peter Herrmann and Heiko Krumm
  University of Dortmund, Germany

Fault tolerance

• Design and implemantation of a CORBA fault-tolerant object group service
  Graham Morgan, Santosh Shrivastava, Paul Ezhilchelvan and Mark Little
  Newcastle University, UK

• Replicating CORBA objects: a marriage between active and passive replication
  Pascal Felber, Xavier Defago, Patrick Eugster and Andre Schiper
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

• The Jgroup distributed object model
  Alberto Montresor
  Universitá di Bologna, Italy

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 14:45 Electronic commerce

• Distribution issues in the design and implementation of a virtual market place
  Yigal Hoffner, Christian Facciorusso, Simon Field and Andreas Schade
  IBM Research Division Zürich, Switzerland

• Interaction-oriented rule management for mobile agent applications
  Tuan Tu, Frank Griffel, Michael Merz and Winfried Lamersdorf
  University of Hamburg, Germany

• Closed user groups in Internet service centres
  Sebastian Staamann (1), Levente Buttyan (1), Allan Coignet (1), Ernesto Ruggiano (2), Uwe Wilhelm (1) and Marc Zweiacker (2)
  (1) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland ; (2) Swisscom Corporate Technology, Bern, Switzerland

14:45 - 15:00 Closing session