New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Preface. Conference Committees. Session I: Invited Lecture. The Intelligent Infrastructure for e-Business; L. Svobodova. Session II: Context Aware Applications. Middleware Support for Context-Aware Multimedia Applications; H. Naguib, et al. CAPEUS: An Architecture for Context-Aware Selection and Execution of Services; M. Samulowitz, et al. Sentient Computing for Everyone; D.L. de Ipina, S.-L. Lo. The Active Guide Book; T. Boyd, P. Robinson. Session III: Integration & Interoperability. Software Connectors and their Role in Component Deployment; D. Balek, F. Plasil. An Extension to a CORBA Trader to Support XML Service Descriptions; T. Senivongse, W. Nanekrangsan. On the Construction of Distributed RM-ODP Specifications; X. Blanc, et al. Session IV: Short Papers I. Aspectix: A Quality-Aware, Object-Based Middleware Architecture; F.J. Hauck, et al. Providing Messaging Interoperability in FIPA Communication Architecture; H. Helin, S. Campadello. Architectural Design and Performance Aspects of Developing Applications Based on Middleware; A. Schill, et al. Managing Evolution in Telecommunication Systems; G. Koutsoukos, et al. Mobility Management for Providing QoS in Local Area Wireless Networks; J.A. Garcia-Macias, et al. Session V: Invited Lecture. Information Access Is Fine, But Who Is Goint To Pay? A. Wolisz. Session VI: Architectures, Services & Applications. A Framework for Aspect-Oriented Multiparty Coordination; J.A. Perez, et al. An Open Architecture for Pervasive Systems; J. Indulska, et al. Design and Evaluation of a QoS Provisioning Service; A.T. van Halteren, et al. Session VII: Mobile Agents. Integrating Mobile Agents and Neural Networks for Proactive Management; K. Herrmann, K. Geihs. Second Price Auctions, A Case Study of Secure Distributed Computating; B. De Decker, et al. Specification and Verification of a Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol for Agent-Based Applications; M.A. Cornejo, et al. Session VIII: Management & Monitoring. Widening Traditional Management Platforms for Managing CORBA Applications; M. Debusmann, R. Kroeger. Live Upgrade Techniques for CORBA Applications; L.A. Tewksbury, et al. Raccoon -- An Infrastructure for Managing Access Control In CORBA; G. Brose. Session IX: Short Papers II. Tool-Assisted Security Assessment of Distributed Applications; P. Herrmann, et al. Service Oriented Application Management -- Do current techniques meet the requirements?; R. Hauck, I. Radisic. Sharing Java Resources in the Harness Metacomputing Framework; D. Kurzyniec, V. Sunderam. Designing and Implementing an Object Relational Data Warehousing System; B. Czejdo, et al. Distributed Transactions for ODMG Federated Databases; D. Becarevic, M. Roantree. Author Index.