Operating Systems of the 90s and Beyond

An agenda for research in large-scale distributed data repositories.- File system indexing, and backup.- Intelligent file systems for object repositories.- Using domains for specifying management policy.- Session one: Discussion summary.- Future operating systems: An environmental scenario and consequential challenges.- Operating system support for high-performance architectures.- Closely coupled systems.- Are operating systems at RISC?.- Operating systems of the 90's and beyond (with Emphasis on Multiprocessing).- Munin: Distributed shared memory using multi-protocol release consistency.- Session two: Discussion summary.- Autonomous heterogeneous computing - Some open problems.- Coping with the past.- The immortality of operating systems or is research in operating systems still justified?.- Session three: Discussion summary.- Event-triggered versus time-triggered real-time systems.- Pre-scheduling for synchronization in hard real-time systems.- Notes on future operating systems for real-time dependable distributed computing.- Session four: Discussion summary.- Basic concepts and issues in fault-tolerant distributed systems.- Operating systems and fault-tolerance.- Fault-tolerance in sixth generation operating systems.- Fault tolerance support in future operating systems.- Fast stable storage as a basis for fault tolerant architectures.- Stable memory - another look.- System-level support for dependable distributed applications.- Session five: Discussion summary.- Protection and security issues for future systems.- Some issues in security arising from distribution.- Security: System development in a new context.- Issues in security and fault tolerance.- Session six: Discussion summary.- What next? some speculations.- Some thoughts on systems challenges for the 1990s.- Next generation operating systems architecture.- Toward computing systems for the 2000 s.- Encapsulation and interaction in future operating systems.- The explainable operating system.- Soul: An object-oriented OS framework for object support.- Operating system support for object oriented distributed systems.- Session seven: Discussion summary.- Towards a human memory prosthesis.- Systems for the nineties - Distributed multimedia systems.- The role of performance, scheduling, and resource reservation in multimedia systems.