Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 4th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2003, Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Pierre-Charles David, Thomas Ledoux (auth.), Jean-Bernard Stefani, Isabelle Demeure, Daniel Hagimont (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2893
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Towards a Framework for Self-adaptive Component-Based Applications....Pages 1-14
A Scheme for the Introduction of 3rd Party, Application-Specific Adaptation Features in Mobile Service Provision....Pages 15-28
Brenda: Towards a Composition Framework for Non-orthogonal Non-functional Properties....Pages 29-40
Meta-programming Middleware for Distributed Object Computing....Pages 41-48
Middleware Support for Resource-Constrained Software Deployment....Pages 49-60
Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents....Pages 61-72
Facilitating the Portability of User Applications in Grid Environments....Pages 73-85
Negotiation as a Generic Component Coordination Primitive....Pages 86-97
Jironde: A Flexible Framework for Making Components Transactional....Pages 98-109
A Security Architectural Approach for Risk Assessment Using Multi-agent Systems Engineering....Pages 110-124
Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Transactional Information Sharing between Enterprises....Pages 125-132
Adaptable Access Control Policies for Medical Information Systems....Pages 133-140
Client-Side Component Caching....Pages 141-152
A Variable Cache Consistency Protocol for Mobile Systems Using Time Locks....Pages 153-166
DataWarp: Building Applications Which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World....Pages 167-178
Hand-Over Video Cache Policy for Mobile Users....Pages 179-186
Planning for Network-Aware Paths....Pages 187-199
Integrating the Unreliable Multicast Inter-ORB Protocol in MJaco ....Pages 200-211
A-GATE: A System of Relay and Translation Gateways for Communication among Heterogeneous Agents in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments....Pages 212-223
Scalable Location Management for Context-Aware Systems....Pages 224-235
CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to Enable Contextual Interoperability....Pages 236-247
Discovering Web Services Using Behavioural Constraints and Ontology....Pages 248-259
Requirements for Personal Information Agents in the Semantic Web....Pages 260-265
Towards an Intuitive Interface for Tailored Service Compositions....Pages 266-273
Context-Based Addressing: The Concept and an Implementation for Large-Scale Mobile Agent Systems Using Publish-Subscribe Event Notification....Pages 274-284
Exploiting Proximity in Event-Based Middleware for Collaborative Mobile Applications....Pages 285-296
A Flexible Middleware Layer for User-to-User Messaging....Pages 297-309
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Operating Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)