CDS 98 Program Announcement

CDS 98 Program Announcement

[Don Welch]

 
 			   PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
 
  		     An invitation to attend the fourth
 
         INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFIGURABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
 
             to be held May 4-6, 1998, in Annapolis, Maryland, USA
 
 	         Sponsored by the University of Maryland 
                  Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
 
 
You are cordially invited to attend CDS 98, the premier technical forum for
researchers and practitioners alike to study on-line system configuration,
at levels of abstraction ranging from application-level programming tools
and management techniques, to network communication protocols and operating
system services.  The technical program assembled here is the latest in a
series of meetings to foster progress in this burgeoning area of study, as
begun at Imperial College in London, 1991; continued at the second meeting
hosted by Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, 1994; and again at
the third meeting, held in Annapolis in 1996.  This fourth meeting broadens
the scope of study to include configurable parallel systems, as well as new
application domains such as real-time, multimedia, and high performance
computing.

And new this year ... CDS will GO BEYOND THE CUTTING EDGE!  Okay, a little
dramatic, but we are scheduling time for short (hard 5 min) presentations of
work in progress, outrageous opinions, queries for help on technical problems
and anything else members of our community feel ought to be brought to group.
We want to continue our tradition of community building in this area, and so
are making time available for this purpose late in the day on tuesday. There
will be time for discussion and follow up on topics as needed, and supplemental
proceedings (compiled from up to four pages of material per speaker in this
session) will be prepared and distributed at the conference.  If you want to
reserve one of these slots, please let us know by sending a note to conference
chair Jim Purtilo (purtilo@cs.umd.edu) at the same time you register, otherwise
slots will be given out at the conference.

The slate of papers to be presented at CDS 98 appears below, and full details 
of the technical program and registration can be found on the WWW at
			http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/CDS
 
This is a first-rate technical line-up, and May is a marvelous time of year
to visit Annapolis -- so we look forward to seeing you here!
 
 					Jim Purtilo
 					Conference Chair
 
 
Monday, May 4th
8:00 Registration
9:30 Keynote Address

10:45-12:15 Session 1: Reconfiguration

    Application of dynamic recongfiguration in the design of fault tolerant
    production systems.
    Matos, White.  
       
    Architectural support for dynamic reconfiguration of large scale
    distributed applications.  
    Shrivastava, Wheater
       
    Building self-reconfiguring distributed systems using compensating
    reconfiguration
    Welch.


1:15-2:45p Session 2: CORBA and Component-Based Programming

   Dynamic configuration with CORBA components
   Rodriguez, Iernsalimschy, Cerqueira.

   A dynamic reconfiguration service for CORBA
   Bidan, Issarny, Saridakis, Zarras.

   SOFA/DCUP: Architecture for component trading and dynamic updating
   Plasil, Balek, Janecek.

3:00 - 5:00p  Session 3: Configuration Languages and Tools

   System services for distributed application configuration.
   Bellissard, Boyer, Riveill, Vyon-Dury.

   On the role of software architectures in runtime system reconfiguration
   Oreizy, Taylor.
   
   Component Interaction in Concurrent and Distributed Systems
   Pryce.
   
   Functionality and partitioning configuration: design patterns and
   framework
   Rosa, Silva.
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Tuesday, May 5th
9:00 - 10:30a Session 4: Analytical and Formal Methods

   Analysing dynamic change in software architectures: a case study
   Kramer, Magee.
   
   Dynamic semantics negotiation in distributed and evolving CORBA systems:
   towards semantic-directed system configuration
   Goedicke, Meyer.
   
   Towards a chemical model for software architecture reconfiguration
   Wermelinger.

10:45 - 12:15p. Session 5: Multimedia and Visualization

   Configurable distributed retrieval of scientific data
   Silva, Schwan.
   
   Supporting adaptive multimedia applications through open bindings
   Fitzpatrick, Blair, Coulson, Davies, Robin.
   
   Warping distributed system configurations
   Thomas, Stotts.

1:15 - 3:45p Session 6: OS and Security

   An architecture for dynamically extensible operating systems
   Clarke, Coulson.

   Dynamic service reconfiguration and migration in the Kea Kernel
   Veitch, Hutchinson.
   
   Using meta-interfaces to support secure, dynamic system reconfiguration
   Horie, Pang, Manning, Shoja.
   
   Building configurable applications in Java
   Little, Wheater.

Wednesday, May 6
9:00 - 10:30a Session 7: Configuration Management

   Towards a requirements-based information model for configuration
   management. 
   Aschemann, Kehr.
   
   Consistency in dynamic reconfiguration
   Feiler, Li.  
   
   Configuration management for highly-customizable services
   Hiltunen. 

10:45 - 12:15p: Distributed Systems

  Achieving middleware customization in a configuration-based development
  environment
  Issarny, Bidan, Saridakis.  
  
  Asynchronous construction of consistent global snapshots in the object
  and action model.
  Garcia, Buzato.  
  
  ILI: An adaptive infrastructure for dynamic interactive distributed
  applications.
  Martin, Schwan.