New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Invited Lecture

   1. The Intelligent Infrastructure for E-business

      • Liba Svobodova

      Pages 3-5

3. Context Aware Applications

   1. Middleware Support for Context-aware Multimedia Applications

      • Hani Naguib, George Coulouris, Scott Mitchell

      Pages 9-22

   2. Capeus: An Architecture for Context-aware Selection and Execution of Services

      • Michael Samulowitz, Florian Michahelles, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

      Pages 23-39

   3. Sentient Computing for Everyone

      • Diego de López Ipiña, Sai-Lai Lo

      Pages 41-54

   4. The Active Guidebook

      • Trevor Boyd, Peter Robinson

      Pages 55-66

4. Integration & Interoperability

   1. Software Connectors and Their Role in Component Deployment

      • Dušan Bálek, František Plášil

      Pages 69-84

   2. An Extension to a Corba Trader to Support XML Service Descriptions

      • Twittie Senivongse, Wuttichai Nanekrangsan

      Pages 85-98

   3. On the Construction of Distributed RM-ODP Specifications

      • Xavier Blanc, Marie-Pierre Gervais, Raymonde Le Delliou

      Pages 99-111

5. Short Papers I

   1. Aspectix: A Quality-aware, Object-based Middleware Architecture

      • Franz J. Hauck, Ulrich Becker, Martin Geier, Erich Meier, Uwe Rastofer, Martin Steckermeier

      Pages 115-120

   2. Providing Messaging Interoperability in FIPA Communication Architecture

      • Heikki Helin, Stefano Campadello

      Pages 121-126

   3. Architectural Design and Performance Aspects of Developing Applications Based on Middleware

      • Alexander Schill, Olaf Neumann, Christoph Pohl, Thomas Müller

      Pages 127-132

   4. Managing Evolution in Telecommunication Systems

      • G. Koutsoukos, J. Gouveia, L. Andrade, J. L. Fiadeiro

      Pages 133-139

   5. Mobility Management for Providing QoS in Local Area Wireless Networks

      • J. Antonio García-Macías, Franck Rousseau, Gilles Berger-Sabbatel, Leyla Toumi, Andrzej Duda

      Pages 141-146

6. Invited Lecture

   1. Information Access is Fine, But Who is Going to Pay?

      • Adam Wolisz

      Pages 149-158

7. Architectures, Services & Applications

   1. A Framework for Aspect-oriented Multiparty Coordination

      • José A. Pérez, Rafael Corchuelo, David Ruiz, Miguel Toro

      Pages 161-173

   2. An Open Architecture for Pervasive Systems

      • J. Indulska, S. W. Loke, A. Rakotonirainy, V. Witana, A. Zaslavsky

      Pages 175-187

   3. Design and Evaluation of A QoS Provisioning Service

      • A. T. van Halteren, G. Fábián, E. Groeneveld

      Pages 189-200

8. Mobile Agents

   1. Integrating Mobile Agents and Neural Networks for Proactive Management

      • Klaus Herrmann, Kurt Geihs

      Pages 203-215

   2. Second Price Auctions

      • Bart De Decker, Gregory Neven, Frank Piessens, Erik Van Hoeymissen

      Pages 217-228

Distributed applications are a necessity in most central application sectors of the contemporary information society, including e-commerce, e-banking, e-learning, e-health, telecommunication and transportation. This results from a tremendous growth of the role that the Internet plays in business, administration and our everyday activities. This trend is going to be even further expanded in the context of advances in broadband wireless communication.
New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems focuses on the techniques available or under development with the goal to ease the burden of constructing reliable and maintainable interoperable information systems providing services in the global communicating environment.
The topics covered in this book include:

• Context-aware applications;
• Integration and interoperability of distributed systems;
• Software architectures and services for open distributed systems;
• Management, security and quality of service issues in distributed systems;
• Software agents and mobility;
• Internet and other related problem areas.

The book contains the proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'2001), which was held in September 2001 in Kraków, Poland, and sponsored by the International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP).
The conference program presents the state of the art in research concerning distributed and interoperable systems. This is a topical research area where much activity is currently in progress. Interesting new aspects and innovative contributions are still arising regularly. The DAIS series of conferences is one of the main international forums where these important findings are reported.

• CORBA
• Deployment
• Java
• Middleware
• Performance
• Processing
• QoS
• administration
• configuration
• distributed systems
• multimedia
• security

• University of Mining and Metallurgy, Kraków, Poland

  Krzysztof Zieliński, Aleksander Laurentowski

• University of Frankfurt, Germany

  Kurt Geihs

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