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fyi: DAIS99 Call for Participation



In case somebody ends up in Helsinki on June 28 - July 1, 1999 :)

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                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                             DAIS99 
     
          Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II
                       June 28 - July 1, 1999
                         Helsinki, FINLAND

               http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/events/DAIS99/

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                       Preliminary program

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              Monday, June 28

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Tutorial track A

 9.00 - 12.00 Morning session A1
            o Introduction to CORBA and the OMA
              Jon Siegel
              OMG, USA 

13.30-  17.00 Afternoon session A2
            o What's new in CORBA 3
              Jon Siegel
              OMG, USA

Tutorial track B

 8:30 - 12:00 Morning session B1
            o Distributed Object Repositories: Enterprise software 
              integration using Metadata and Distributed Objects
              Shridhar Iyengar 
              UNISYS, USA
               
13:30 - 17:00 Afternoon session B2
            o Distributed and parallel real-time systems
              Albert Cheng
              University of Houston, USA
               
10:00         Accompanying persons get-together


18:30 - 19:30 Reception, University of Helsinki


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              Tuesday, June 29

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 8:30 -  9:00 Opening session

 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk

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

10:30 - 12:30 Quality of service

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

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

            o 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

            o 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

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

15:30 - 17:00 Open architectures

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

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

            o 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

18:00 - 19:00 Reception, City of Helsinki


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              Wednesday, June 30

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 8:30 -  9:30 Invited talk

            o An overview of CORBA 3
              Jon Siegel
              OMG, USA

10:00 - 11:30 Frameworks and tools

            o 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

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

            o 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

            o 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

            o What is new around Java? (tentative title)
              Jim Waldo
              Sun Microsystems, USA

14:30 - 16:30 Agents and mobility

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

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

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

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

            o 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

18:00 - 24:00 Cruise and conference dinner

              Walhalla Restaurant, Suomenlinna Fortress
              Restaurant Walhalla is located in an old fortress on 
              Suomenlinna Island, off the Helsinki shore. Boat 
              transportation is extended to an enjoyable cruise 
              before dinner.


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              Thursday, July 1

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 8:30 - 10:00 Management aspects (Parallel session)

            o 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

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

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

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

 8:30 - 10:00 Language interoperability (Parallel session)

            o 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

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

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

10:30 - 12:00 Workflow and UML issues (Parallel session)

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

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

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

10:30 - 12:00 Fault tolerance (Parallel session)

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

            o 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

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

12:00 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 14:45 Electronic commerce

            o 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

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

            o 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


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