Middleware 2003

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Peer-to-Peer Computing

   1. Approximate Object Location and Spam Filtering on Peer-to-Peer Systems

      • Feng Zhou, Li Zhuang, Ben Y. Zhao, Ling Huang, Anthony D. Joseph, John Kubiatowicz

      Pages 1-20

   2. Efficient Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching

      • Patrick Reynolds, Amin Vahdat

      Pages 21-40

   3. NaradaBrokering: A Distributed Middleware Framework and Architecture for Enabling Durable Peer-to-Peer Grids

      • Shrideep Pallickara, Geoffrey Fox

      Pages 41-61

3. Publish-Subscribe Middleware I

   1. A Framework for Event Composition in Distributed Systems

      • Peter R. Pietzuch, Brian Shand, Jean Bacon

      Pages 62-82

   2. Content Distribution for Publish/Subscribe Services

      • Mao Chen, Andrea LaPaugh, Jaswinder Pal Singh

      Pages 83-102

   3. Supporting Mobility in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Middleware

      • Ludger Fiege, Felix C. Gartner, Oliver Kasten, Andreas Zeidler

      Pages 103-122

4. Adaptability and Context-Awareness

   1. Fine-Grained Dynamic Adaptation of Distributed Components

      • Frédéric Peschanski, Jean-Pierre Briot, Akinori Yonezawa

      Pages 123-142

   2. A Middleware for Context-Aware Agents in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

      • Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbell

      Pages 143-161

   3. Adaptable Architectural Middleware for Programming-in-the-Small-and-Many

      • Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad Medvidovic

      Pages 162-181

5. Publish-Subscribe Middleware II

   1. Opportunistic Channels: Mobility-Aware Event Delivery

      • Yuan Chen, Karsten Schwan, Dong Zhou

      Pages 182-201

   2. Congestion Control in a Reliable Scalable Message-Oriented Middleware

      • Peter R. Pietzuch, Sumeer Bhola

      Pages 202-221

   3. On Shouting “Fire!”: Regulating Decoupled Communication in Distributed Systems

      • Takahiro Murata, Naftaly H. Minsky

      Pages 222-241

6. Web-Base Middleware

   1. Performance Comparison of Middleware Architectures for Generating Dynamic Web Content

      • Emmanuel Cecchet, Anupam Chanda, Sameh Elnikety, Julie Marguerite, Willy Zwaenepoel

      Pages 242-261

   2. Prefetching Based on Web Usage Mining

      • Daby M. Sow, David P. Olshefski, Mandis Beigi, Guruduth Banavar

      Pages 262-281

   3. Distributed Versioning: Consistent Replication for Scaling Back-End Databases of Dynamic ContentWeb Sites

      • Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel

      Pages 282-304

7. Component-Based Middleware

   1. Abstraction of Transaction Demarcation in Component-Oriented Platforms

      • Romain Rouvoy, Philippe Merle

      Pages 305-323

   2. Optimising Java RMI Programs by Communication Restructuring

      • Kwok Cheung Yeung, Paul H. J. Kelly

      Pages 324-343

   3. The JBoss Extensible Server

      • Marc Fleury, Francisco Reverbel

      Pages 344-373

8. Next Generation Middleware

   1. Flexible and Adaptive QoS Control for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Middleware

      • Richard E. Schantz, Joseph P. Loyall, Craig Rodrigues, Douglas C. Schmidt, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Irfan Pyarali

      Pages 374-393

Next-generation distributed applications and systems are increasingly developed using middleware. This dependency poses hard R&D challenges, including - tency hiding, masking partial failure, information assurance and security, legacy integration, dynamic service partitioning and load balancing, and end-to-end quality of service speci?cation and enforcement. To address these challenges, researchers and practitioners must discover and validate techniques, patterns, and optimizations for middleware frameworks, multi-level distributed resource management, and adaptive and re?ective middleware architectures. Following the success of the past IFIP/ACM Middleware conferences (Lake District/UK, Palisades/USA, and Heidelberg/Germany) and building upon the success of past USENIX COOTS conferences, the Middleware 2003 conference is the premier international event for middleware research and technology. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and eval- tion of distributed system platforms, architectures, and applications for future computing and communication environments. This year, we had a record of 158 submissions, among which the top 25 - pers were selected for inclusion in the technical program of the conference. All papers were evaluated by at least three reviewers with respect to their origin- ity,technicalmerit,presentationquality,andrelevancetotheconferencethemes. The selected papers present the latest results and breakthroughs on middleware research in areas including peer-to-peer computing, publish-subscriber archit- tures, component- and Web-based middleware, mobile systems, and adaptive computing.

• Middleware
• component-based systems
• distributed applications
• distributed computing
• distributed systems
• mobile computing
• mobile object systems
• peer-to-peer systems
• publish-subscriber architectures
• ubiquitous computing
• web-based systems

• Departamento de Informática, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Markus Endler

• Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Station B Nashville, USA

  Douglas Schmidt

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