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May 26, 1998, Tuesday

8:00 Registration

9:00 ***

12:30 Lunch

14:00 ***

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 ***

Technical Sessions May 27 (Wednesday) - May 29 (Friday)

May 27, 1998, Wednesday

 

8:00 Registration

 

9:00-9:30 Opening

 

9:30-10:30 Keynote: ***

Chair: Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State Univ.

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

 

11:00-12:30 Concurrent Sessions

1A: Distributed Object Systems

Chair:***

 

• Performance Comparison of Architectures for Client-Server Interactions in CORBA, Abdul-Fatah
• Coordinated Exception Handling in Distributed Object Systems: From Model to System
• Implementation, Xu, Romanovski, and Randell
• Flexible Protocol Composition in BAST, Garbinato and Guerraoui

   

  1B: Real-Time Communications

  Chair:***

   

• A Statistical Method for Time Synchronization of Computer Clocks with Precisely Frequency-Synchronized Oscillators, Yamashita and Ono
• Group Communication Protocol for Realtime Applications, Tachikawa, Higaki, and Takizawa
• Real-Time Primary-Backup (RTPB) Replication with Temporal Consistency Guarantees, Zou and Jahanian

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Concurrent Sessions

2A: Retrieval and Caching of Distributed Information

Chair:***

• Distributed Virtual Malls on the World Wide Web, Iyengar and Dias
• Methodologies for Distributed Information Retrieval, De Kretser, Moffat, Shimmin, and Zobel
• Self-Organizing Cooperative WWW Caching, Inohara, Masuoka, Min, and Noda

 

2B: Distributed Algorithms and Verification

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• An Adaptive Protocol for Implementing Causally Consistent Distributed Services, Ahamad, Raynal, and Thia-Kime
• Addressing False Causality while Detecting Predicates in Distributed Programs, Tarafdar and Garg
• Self-Stabilization with Global Rooted Synchronizers, Alima, Beauquier, and Datta

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Concurrent Sessions

3A: Communication Protocols

Chair: Wen-Shyen Eric Chen, National Chung-Hsing University

• Efficient Ordered Broadcasting in Reliable CSMA/CD Networks, Jalote
• A Protocol for Removing Communication Intrusion in Monitored Distributed Systems, Wu, Spezialetti, and Gupta
• On Improving Reachability Analysis for Verifying Progress Properties for Networks of CFSMs, vd Schoot and Ural
• Signaling Adaptor between Distributed Systems and Telecommunication Networks, Lin

 

3B: Distributed Data Replication and Sharing

Chair:***

• Using Broadcast Primitives in Replicated Databases, Stanoi, Agrawal, and El Abbadi
• A Suite of Database Replication Protocols based on Group Communication Primitives, Kemme and Alonso
• Update Propagation Strategies to Improve Data Freshness in Lazy Master Schemes, Pacitti, Simon and Melo
• Reflective Data Sharing in Managing Internet Databases, Bouguettaya, Benatallah and Edmond

18:30- Reception

May 28, 1998, Thursday

9:00-10:30 Concurrent Sessions

4A: Collaborative Applications 1

Chair:****

 

• System Support for Partition-Aware Network Applications, Babao Lu, Davoli, Montresor and Segala
• Quarterware for Middleware, Singhai, Sane, and Campbell
• The Accelerated Heartbeat Protocols, Gouda and McGuire

 

4B: Performance Issues

Chair:***

 

• Dynamic Load Distribution Using Anti-Tasks and Load State Vectors, Lau, Lu and Leung
• LBF: A Performance Metric for Program Reorganization, Eom and Hollingsworth
• Granularity Control for Distributed Execution of Logic Programs, George Xirogiannis

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Concurrent Sessions

5A: RPCs and Remote Message Passing

Chair:***

 

• Fast, Optimized Sun RPC Using Automatic Program Specialization, Muller, Marlet, Volanschi, and Consel
• Structuring Remote Object Systems for Mobile Hosts with Intermittent Connectivity, Welling, and Ott
• A Multithreaded Message-Passing System for High Performance Distributed Computing Applications, Park, Lee, and Hariri
• Timestamps for Programs Using Messages and Shared Variables, Bechini and Tai

 

 

5B: Consistency and Load Balancing For Web Applications

Chair:***

 

• A Framework for Consistent, Replicated Web Objects, Kermarrec, Kuz, van Steen, and Tanenbaum
• Using Leases to Support Server-Driven Consistency in Large-Scale Systems, Yin, Alvisi, Dahlin, and Lin
• Dynamic Load Balancing in Geographically Distributed Heterogeneous Web Servers, Colajanni, Yu, and Cardellini
• A Bandwidth Sensitive Update Scheduling Method for Internet Push, Huang and Yu

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Concurrent Sessions

6A: Web-Based Commerce

Chair:***

 

• Trust Metrics, Models and Protocols for Electronic Commerce Transactions, Daniel W. Manchala
• A Mechanism for Establishing Policies for Electronic Commerce, Minsky and Ungureanu
• Decentralized Micropayment Consolidation, Chomicki, Naqvi, Pucci, and Underwood

 

6B: Real-Time Synchronization and Protocols

Chair:***

 

• HADES: A Middleware Support for Distributed Safety-Critical Real-Time Applications, Anceaume, Cabillic, Chevochot, and Puaut
• A Scalable Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Distributed Systems, Atif and Hamidzadeh
• A Protocol and Correctness Proofs for Real-Time High-Performance Broadcast Networks, Hermant and Le Lann

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Concurrent Sessions

7A: Collaborative Applications 2

Chair:***

 

• CCFX/CCSM: A Distributed X-Multiplexor, Krantz, Chodrow, Hirsch, Sult and Sunderarm
• Cliques: A New Approach to Group Key Agreement, Steiner and Tsudik
• Flexible Batching and Consistency Mechanisms for Building Interactive Groupware Applications, Bhola, Mukherjee et al.

 

7B: Security, Composability, and Failure Detection

Chair:***

 

• Experience with Secure Multi-Processing in Java, Balfanz and Gong
• A Framework for Dependability-Driven Software Integration, Suri, Ghosh, and Marlowe
• Distributed Predicate Detection in a Faulty Environment, Mitchell and Garg

19:00- Banquet

May 29, 1998, Friday

8:30- Registration

9:00-10:00 Keynote: ****

Chair: Tse-Yun Feng, Pen State Univ.

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 Concurrent Sessions

8A: Fault Tolerant Systems

Chair:***

 

• Fault-Tolerant Adaptive and Minimal Routing in Mesh-Connected Multicomputers Using Extended Safety, Levels, J. Wu
• Detectors and Coectors: A Theory of Fault-Tolerance Components, A. Arora and S. Kulkarni
• A Delay-Optimal Quorum-Based Mutual Exclusion Scheme with Fault-Tolerance Capability, Cao and Singhal
• Low-Overhead Protocols for Fault-Tolerant File-Sharing, Alvisi, Rao and Vin

   

  8B: Mobile and Wireless Systems

  Chair: Alexander Schill, TU Dresden

   

• Low-Cost Checkpointing with Mutable Checkpoints in Mobile Computing Systems, Cao and Singhal
• A Feedback based Scheme for Improving TCP Performance in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, Chandran, Raghunathan et al.
• Optimal Channel Allocation for Data Dissemination in Mobile Computing Environments, And Hu, D. L. Lee , W.C. Lee
• NFS/M: An Open Platform Mobile File System, Lui, So, and Tam

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Concurrent Sessions

9A: Wide-Area Network Computing

Chair:***

 

• Adapting to Bandwidth Variations in Wide-Area Data Combination, Ranganathan, Acharya and Saltz
• Wide-Area Nile: A Case Study of a Wide-Area Data-Parallel Application, Amoroso, Marzullo, and Ricciardi
• Improved Lightpath (Wavelength) Routing in Large WDM Networks, Liang and Shen

 

9B: Workflow Systems and Transactions

Chair:***

 

• Flexible Exception Handling in OPERA, Hagen and Alonso
• A Language for Specifying the Composition of Reliable Distributed Applications, Ranno, Shrivastava, and Wheater
• Lightweight Transactions on Networks of Workstations, Papathanasiou and Markatos

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Concurrent Sessions

10A: Distributed Shared Memory

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• Robust State Sharing for Wide Area Distributed Applications, Topol, Ahamed, and Stasko
• Building Clustered Services and Applications Using a Global Memory System, Carter, Ranganathan et al.
• Towards Transparent Selective Sequencial Consistency in Distributed Shared Memory Systems, Sun, Huang, Lei, and Sattar
• Consistency Conditions for Multi-Object Distributed Operations, Mittal and Garg

 

10B: Agent Systems and Market-Based Computing

Chair:***

 

• Globally Distributed Computation over the Internet - The POPCORN Project, Nisan, London, Regev, and Carniel
• Competitive Sourcing for Internet Commerce, Ketchpel and Garcia-Molina
• Some Economics of Market-based Distributed Scheduling, Walsh, Wellman, Wurman, and MacKie-Mason
• Agents Negotiating for Load Balancing of Electricity Use, Brazier, Cornelissen, Gustavvson et al.

18:00- Closing

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