Meetings 1999/2000

Our reflection group has a weekly meeting where we discuss several issues related to reflection, open distributed processing, group communication, resource reservation and many other subjects. The table below presents the subject of our discussions and if you want to have a look at the topics discussed last academic years choose 1997/1998 or 1998/1999.

Date	Subject
24.08.1999	Domain Specific Language Base for discussion: http://www.irisa.fr/compose/ Suggested paper: Adaptable Distributed Applications using Extensible Networks.
01.09.1999 New date!	Dynamic Software Architecture Base for discussion: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~peymano/papers/ Suggested papers: "An Architecture-based approach to self-adaptive software" (more general) and "On the role of software architectures in runtime system reconfiguration" (their approach).
07.09.1999 New date!	AspectJ and Aspectual Components Base for discussion: AspectJ: http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/projects/aop/aspectj/ Aspectual Components: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/papers/publications.html "Programming with Aspectual Components", Technical Report, NU-CCS-99-01, March 1999.
14.09.1999	NO MEETING
22.09.1999 New Date!	Minimum CORBA http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/mpg/reflection/docs/
29.09.1999 New date!	NO MEETING.
06.10.1999 New date!	Lee's experience on COM COM+ From Nikos: - http://www.microsoft.com/com/resources/compluscd/default.asp which has interesting presentations and articles. - Specifically, the following 2 overview articles are good: http://www.vcdj.com/magazine/febmag99/commts1.asp http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0599/complusprog/complusprogtop.htm
13.10.1999	The Reflex Project (document sent by Gordon on the 7th of October)
20.10.1999	Composition Filters http://trese.cs.utwente.nl/ M. Aksit and B. Tekinerdogan, Solving the Modeling Problems of Object-Oriented Languages by Composing Multiple Aspects Using Composition Filters, AOP'98 workshop position paper, 1998.
27.10.1999	Postponed to 10.11.99
03.11.1999	Reliable Middleware Workshop Look for the published papers at: http://lsewww.epfl.ch/Events/srds99/wremi/
10.11.1999	A chat of the OORaSE'99 by Nikos
17.11.1999	"OpenWebServer: an Adaptive Web Server Using Software Patterns" by Junichi Suzuki and Yoshikazu Yamamoto. http://www.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp/~suzuki/project/pub/index.html Session led by Hector.
24.11.1999	A chat of the COST264 - First International Workshop on Networked Group Communication by Lee.
1.12.1999	COM+ An overview paper is at: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0599/complusprog/complusprogtop.htm A site with more information is at: http://www.microsoft.com/com/resources/compluscd/default.asp Session led by Nikos.
8.12.1999	"Design of extensible component-based groupware" by Jakob Hummes and Bernard Merialdo http://www.eurecom.fr/~hummes/docs/JCSCW/JCSCW.html Session led by Katia.
13.1.2000	"Virtual Virtual Machines" http://www-sor.inria.fr/projects/vvm/ Session led by Fabio.
19.1.2000	"The End-to-End Resource Management For Distributed Systems (ERDoS) Project" http://www.erg.sri.com/projects/erdos/ Session led by Hector.
26.1.2000	"A Component-Based Architecture for Software Communication " http://www.eurecom.fr/~btroup/BPublished/bib.html Session led by Lee. Comments: Hector.
2.2.2000	In this meeting we continue with a discussion on the "adaptation problem" which was raised last meeting.
9.2.2000	"The Chameleon project" Kalbarczyk, Z., Iyer, R. K., Bagchi, S., Whisnant, K. Chameleon: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault Tolerance. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, June 1999. Session led by Katia.
16.2.2000	Awais will give us a chat of his work. He's been working with frameworks and AOP and these topics will be the main focus of our meeting.
23.2.2000	"Dynamic Architectures and Architectural Styles for Distributed Programs". It is a new component model from Imperial College designed for building dynamic architectures - as an example, they apply it for reconfigurable protocol stacks. Session led by Nikos.
12.4.2000	A chat of the 3th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC'2K) by Hector, and a chat of Middleware'2000 by Gordon
10.5.2000	"Reflective Implementation of non-functional Properties with the JavaPod Component Platform." Eric Bruneton, and Michel Riveill (INRIA, France) "Using Reflective Features to Support Mobile Users." Vania Marangozova and Fabienne Boyer (INRIA, France) Session led by Fabio.
24.5.2000	Rather than presenting a paper what Lee would like to hear is where our reflective technologies (ie OpenORB) has been of real use to people in the group. Session led by Lee.
23.6.2000	A chat about ECOOP and the reflection workshop by Nikos and Fabio.
5.7.2000	A chat about SOAP by Keith.
12.7.2000	Disscussion about the interdependence between meta-models.

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