Technical Program

 

All accepted position papers are available for download here.

Friday 7th April

 

Welcome (1.45-2.00pm)

By Gordon Blair and Roy Campbell (Co-chairs)

 

Session 1: Reflective Middleware Architectures (2.00-3.30pm)

Chair: Doug Schmidt

Devil’s advocate: Renato Cerqueira

Position papers:

LegORB and Ubiquitous CORBA, Manuel Roman, M. Dennis Mickunas, Fabio Kon, Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

On the Design of Reflective Middleware Platforms, Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Fabio Costa, Hector A. Duran / Applying Component Frameworks to Develop Flexible Middleware, Nikos Parlavantzas, Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK (joint presentation)

Reflective and Middleware Features of the VVM, Bertil Folliot, Ian Piumarta, Lionel Seinturier, University of Paris 6, France.

Building a Dynamically Reconfigurable minimumCORBA Platform with Components, Connectors and Language-Level Support, Jim Dowling, Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

 

Coffee (3.30-4.00pm)

 

Session 2: Alternative Techniques (4.00-5.30pm)

Chair: Jean-Charles Fabre

Devil’s advocate: Thomas Plagemann

Position papers:

In Support of Generic Proxies, Svend Frolund, Jim Pruyne, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA.

Monitoring of Distributed Component Interactions, Nikolay Diakov, Harold Batteram, Hans Zandbelt, Marten van Sinderen, CTIT/ Lucent Technologies/ Telematica Insituut, The Netherlands.

Towards a Reflective Middleware Framework for QoS-enabled CORBA Component Model Applications, Nanbor Wang, Michael Kircher, Douglas C. Schmidt, Kirthika Parameswaran, Washington University/ University of California irvine, USA, Siemens ZT, Germany.

Wrapping Class Libraries for Migration-Transparent Resource Access by Using Compile-Time Reflection, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Hidehiko Masuhara, Daisuke Hoshina, Tatsurou Sekiguchi, Akironi Yonezawa, University of Tokyo, Japan.

 

Drinks Reception (6.00-7.00pm)

 

Saturday 8th April

 

Session 3: Reflection and Software Development (9.00-10.30am)

Chair: Fábio Kon

Devil’s advocate: Eddy Truyen

Position papers:

Towards a Modular Substrate for Reliable Mobile Agent Systems, Takuo Watanabe, Noriki Amano, Kenji Shinbori, JAIST, Japan.

Aspects & Crosscutting in Layered Middleware Systems, Lodewijk Bergmans, Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Reflection in the R-RIO Configuration Programming Environment, Alexandre Sztajnberg, Orlando Loques, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil.

The Quality Objects (QuO) Middleware Framework, John Zinky, Richard Schantz, Joe Loyall, Ken Anderson, James Megquier, BBN, USA.

 

Coffee (10.30-11.00am)

 

Session 4: Applications and Formalism (11.00-12.30pm)

Chair: Robert Stroud

Devil’s advocate: Jadwiga Indulska

Position papers:

A Reflective Framework for Providing Safe QoS-enabled Customizable Middleware, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Carolyn Talcott, University of California Irvine/ Stanford University, USA.

Towards Validating Reflective Architectures: Formalisation of a Metaobject Protocol, Eric Marsden, Juan Carlos Ruiz Garcia, Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, France.

Automatic Coordination and Configuration of Net Data Management Applications, David Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA.

Toward Reflective Network Architectures, Andrew T. Campbell, Michael E. Kounavis, Columbia University, USA.

 

Summary and Closing Remarks (12.30-1.00pm)

Chair: Gordon Blair and Roy Campbell

 

Lunch (1.00-2.00pm)

 

Close of Workshop

 

Notes

Each session will consist of 4 x 10 minutes presentations of each of the position papers, followed by a 5 minute statement by the nominated devil’s advocate, and the opening out into period of discussion.

 

 

 

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