CFP - Distributed Object and Applications (DOA'00)

CFP - Distributed Object and Applications (DOA'00)

[Dirk Craeynest]

[ I don't remember having seen this CFP posted here.  With all the work
  done on Ada and CORBA, Distributed Systems Annex, COM, etc., it would
  be nice to have some Ada-related presentations at this event. -- dc ]

                              C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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 | | |  | |  | / |  ||  |      International Symposium on
 | | |  | |--|   |  ||  |  DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS AND APPLICATIONS
_|_| |__| |  |   |__||__| Antwerp, Belgium, September 21-23, 2000
                            http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/doa/2000/

                     Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press

     Are you building applications using distributed objects (DO)?
     Are you doing research in fundamental technology, methodology or new
     tools for DO?
     Are you using some of the existing distributed object systems?

     Consider contributing a practice report or a research paper to this
     innovative event, and to present, discuss and obtain feedback for your
     ideas among other practitioners and researchers active in the same
     area.

     There is increasing agreement among IT researchers and practitioners
     about the importance and potential of distributed object systems and
     the advances in this area made in recent years. These systems offer
     many promises for use in various applications, including
     telecommunications, banking applications and many other domains. DO
     systems are starting to offer practical, real-life production solutions
     to technical problems, including interoperability across different
     software and database platforms. Distributed object systems are built
     according to different paradigms and architectures, such as OMG's
     CORBA, Microsoft's COM and other object request broker principles and
     implementations, and contingent technologies such as SUN's Java-based
     active objects, to provide a basis for building complex distributed
     applications.

     The future success of DO systems will not only be dependent on how the
     basic requirements (to develop open, reliable and scalable distributed
     and heterogeneous applications and platforms) are met but also how the
     underlying distributed object technology can be integrated with
     existing complementary technologies and applications, such as WWW,
     multimedia and databases. The reengineering of legacy systems may
     substantially benefit from the use of DO, e.g. when turning them into
     data warehouses. Further standardization of distributed object concepts
     will very likely unlock many new areas of application still.

     TWO DIMENSIONS: Research & Practice

     As research in DO establishes new principles, enhancing our
     understanding of the fundamental issues involved, and opening the way
     to new tools and methodologies for DO, so conversely practical
     experience in real-life DO projects drives the avenues of this same
     research by exposing new ideas and posing new types of problems to be
     solved. With the DOA Symposium we explicitly intend to provide a forum
     to help this mutual interaction occur, and to trigger and foster it.
     Submissions can be entered along both these dimensions: research
     (theory, fundamentals, principles of DO) and practice (applications,
     experience, pragmatics of DO). Contributions attempting to cross over
     the gap between these two dimensions will, of course, be especially
     welcome.

     As we are fully aware of the differences in environment for research
     and development that exist in academia and industry, submissions from
     each will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only
     for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers) but
     for originality and generality of application (in the case of "case
     studies" papers). Papers of each type will be presented in parallel
     tracks at the Symposium, but with maximal opportunity for interaction
     for researchers and developers working on related topics.

     To summarize, during the DOA'2000 Symposium we therefore want attendees
     to be able to evaluate existing ORB middleware products; to analyze,
     and propose solutions to major limitations of existing products; and to
     indicate promising future research directions for distributed objects.
     We are particularly interested in the evaluation of existing DO systems
     and how they are used to design and to implement large scale industrial
     distributed applications. We are seeking theoretical as well as
     practical papers addressing innovative issues related to distributed
     objects.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

     The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:

        o Critique of the distributed object paradigm
        o Distributed business objects
        o Distributed and mobile agents
        o Design patterns for distributed object design
        o Database services, in particular persistency, transaction, query
          and replication services
        o Integration of distributed object and Web technologies
        o Intelligent traders
        o Interoperability-supporting environments
        o Integration with database systems and interfaces
        o Methodologies to develop distributed object applications
        o Reintegration of legacy systems in DO environments
        o Design of CORBA, COM- and Java-based broker applications
        o Multimedia distributed objects
        o Multicast protocols for distributed objects
        o Object caching
        o Reliability, fault-tolerance and recovery
        o Real-time ORB middleware
        o Reports on Best Practice
        o Security
        o Specification and enforcement of quality of service
        o Standardization of distributed objects
        o Wrapper libraries and wrapper implementation strategies

IMPORTANT DATES


               Electronic submission:          May 1st, 2000
               Notification of
               acceptance:                   June 10th, 2000
               Camera-ready copies:          June 30th, 2000
               Symposium:              September 21-23, 2000

SUBMISSION DETAILS

     All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on
     originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
     expression. Submissions should be clearly labeled "Research",
     "Practice" or "PC discretion". All papers will be refereed by at
     least three members of the program committee, and at least two
     will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports.
     All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not
     exceed 8,000 words. Practice reports must not exceed 5,000 words.
     Submissions can either be in Postscript or HTML format and should
     be sent to zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au. All submissions must be
     accompanied by a separate email message with the following
     information on the paper:

                    title
                    author(s)
                    affiliation(s)
                    e-mail and address of the contact author
                    optional list of (key)words to appear in the index
                    classification as research, practice or at
                    discretion of PC formal commitment, if paper is
                    accepted, to register for DOA'2000 and present the
                    paper

     Please make sure that your PostScript file can be previewed with
     GhostScript and is printable on a standard PostScript printer. We
     also accept Microsoft Word submissions. If electronic submission
     is not possible, please contact

                         A/Prof. Zahir Tari
                         Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
                         Department of Computer Sience
                         GPO Box 2476 V
                         Melbourne, VIC 3001
                         Australia
                         (phone) +61-3-9925-3782
                         (fax)      +61-3-9662-1617

     to make special arrangements, at least two weeks before the submission
     deadline. The final proceedings will be published by IEEE Press.
     Failure to commit presentation at the conference automatically excludes
     a paper from the proceedings.


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

     General chair

          Robert Meersman
          STARLab
          Free University of Brussel (VUB)
          Building F-G 10, Pleinlaan 2
          B-1050 Brussels
          Belgium
          meersman@vub.ac.be
          (fax) ++32 (2) 629-3525

     Program committee co-chairs

          Pamela Drew
          The Boeing Company
          P.O. Box 3707, M/S: 7L-20
          Seattle, WA 98124-2207
          USA
          pamela.a.drew@boeing.com
          (phone) +1 425 865 3610
          (fax)+1 425 865 2966

          Zahir Tari
          Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
          Department of Computer Science
          GPO Box 2476V
          Melbourne, VIC 3001
          Australia
          zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au
          (phone) ++61-3-9660-3782
          (fax)  ++61-3-9662-1617

          Roberto Zicari
          Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University
          Department of Computer Science
          Kettenhofweg 135, PO box 11 19 32
          D-60325 Frankfurt/Main
          Germany
          (phone) ++49.69.798.28212
          (fax) ++49.69.798.25123
          zicari@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de

     Industrial Liaison

          Pranab Baruah
          The Boeing Company
          P.O. Box 3707, M/S: 6H-WT
          Seattle, WA 98124-2207
          USA
          Pranab.Baruah@PSS.Boeing.com

     Organising chair

          Liselore Berghman
          University of Antwerp - UFSIA
          Prinsstraat 13
          B 2000 Antwerp
          Belgium
          lberghman@ufsia.ac.be

     Publicity Chair

          Liz Ungar
          The Boeing Company
          P.O. Box 3707, M/S: 7L-20
          Seattle, WA 98124-2207
          USA
          liz.ungar@boeing.com


     Program committee

       Gustavo Alonso (ETH, Zurich)
       Bill Appelbe (RMIT, Australia)
       Sean Baker (IONA, Ireland)
       Carlos De Backer (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
       Jose Blakeley (Microsoft, USA)
       Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK)
       Anthony Bloesch (Visio Corp., USA)
       Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA)
       Akmal B. Chaudhri (Computer Associates, UK)
       Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
       Chris Gokey (NASA, USA)
       Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)
       Arno Jacobsen (Humboldt University, Germany)
       Dimitris Karagiannis (University of Vienna and B.O.C. GmbH, Austria)
       Roger King (University of Colorado, USA)
       Sacha Krakowiak (University of Grenoble, France)
       Bernd  Kramer (FernUniversitat Hagen, Germany)
       Hong Va Leong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
       Ling Liu (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA)
       Frank Manola (USA)
       Sophie Monties  (EPFL, Switzerland)
       Jishnu Mukerji (HP New Jersey Labs, USA)
       Tom Northcutt (NASA, USA)
       Kunio Ohno (INS Engineering Corporation, Japan)
       Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada)
       Mike P. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
       Kerry Raymond (DSTC, Australia)
       Arnie Rosenthal (Mitre, USA)
       Richard Soley (OMG, USA)
       Marc H. Scholl (Universitat Konstanz, Germany)
       Jean-Bernard  Stefani (France Telecom, France)
       Doug Schmidt  (Washington Univ. at St. Louis, USA)
       Makoto Takizawa (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
       Hakki Toroslu (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
       Yu-Chee Tseng (National Central University, Taiwan)
       Wilfried Verachtert (MediaGenix, Belgium)
       Andreas Vogel (In Prise, USA)
       Guijun Wang (Boeing, USA)
       Andrew Watson (OMG, USA)
       Albert Zamoya  (University of Western Australia, Australia)

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