From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be779debe2c4e5e6,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@neptunus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest) Subject: CFP - Distributed Object and Applications (DOA'00) Date: 1999/11/24 Message-ID: <81hka1$7hh@neptunus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> X-Deja-AN: 552660923 Distribution: world Cache-Post-Path: marvin!dirk@neptunus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Summary: Ada should be there! X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 943477894 22346 134.58.127.3 (24 Nov 1999 21:11:34 GMT) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. Computer Science, K.U.Leuven X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Nov 1999 21:11:34 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-24T21:11:34+00:00 List-Id: [ 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 ============================= ___ __ __ __ __ | | | | | | / | || | 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) -- cut here ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ------- >8 ----- Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium e-mail) -- Dirk Craeynest | OFFIS nv/sa | Email Dirk.Craeynest@offis.be Ada-Belgium | Weiveldlaan 41/32 | Phone +32(2)725.40.25 Ada-Europe | B-1930 Zaventem | +32(2)729.97.36 (work) Team Ada | Belgium | Fax +32(2)725.40.12 +-------------/ E-mail: ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be |Ada-Belgium / WWW: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/ |on Internet/ FTP: ftp://ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/Ada-Belgium +----------/ Mail-list: ada-belgium-info-request@cs.kuleuven.ac.be