Distributed Platforms

1 Standards for distributed platforms.- 2 Distributed object oriented approaches.- 3 The impact of mobility on distributed systems platforms.- 4 Extensions to ANSAware for advanced mobile applications.- 5 System integration for mobile computing and service mobility.- 6 A comparative analysis of virtual versus physical process-migration strategies for distributed modeling and simulation of mobile computing networks.- 7 Use of DSOM before/after metaclass for enabling object access control.- 8 A framework for inter-ORB request level bridge construction.- 9 Migration of legacy applications to a CORBA platform: a case study.- 10 Distributed computing environment (DCE) porting tool.- 11 Migrating from ISODE/ROSE to DCE/RPC: a common interface and a compiler.- 12 Achieving interoperability between CORBA and DCE applications using bridges.- 13 Efficient and fault-tolerant distributed host monitoring using system-level diagnosis.- 14 Object instrumentation for distributed applications management.- 15 A modeling framework for integrated distributed systems fault management.- 16 Design of multimedia global PACS CORBA environment.- 17 An object group model and its implementation to support cooperative applications on CORBA.- 18 Trader supported distributed office applications.- 19 SMT: a system monitoring tool for DCE.- 20 Performance evaluation of a distributed application performance monitor.- 21 A high-level process checkpointing and migration scheme for heterogenous distributed systems.- 22 Agents, services and electronic markets: how do they integrate?.- 23 New concepts for qualitative trader cooperation.- 24 Overview of the DRYAD trading system implementation.- 25 Enabling interworking between heterogenous distributed platforms.- 26 Inter-operability and distributed application platform design.- 27 Security architecture based on secret key and privilege attribute certificates.- 28 A model for evolution of services in distributed systems.- 29 Using OMG IDL to write OODCE applications.- 30 Transparently programming heterogenous distributed systems.- 31 Evaluating delayed write in a multilevel caching file system.- 32 Reducing the cost of remote procedure call.- 33 Service management using up-to-date quality properties.- 34 QoS support for distributed multimedia communications.- 35 A framework for QoS updates in a networking environment.- 36 Equus: a QoS manager for distributed applications.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.