Open Distributed Processing

One Invited Presentations.- 1 Reference model of open distributed processing (RM-ODP): Introduction.- 2 RM-ODP: the architecture.- 3 New ways of learning through the global information infrastructure.- Two Reviewed Papers.- 4 The A1? architecture model.- 5 Interoperability of distributed platforms: a compatibility perspective.- 6 A general resource discovery system for open distributed processing.- 7 Management service design: from TMN interface specifications to ODP computational objects.- 8 Analysis and design of a management application using RM-ODP and OMT.- 9 Distributing public network management systems using CORBA.- 10 Designing an ODP trader implementation using X.500.- 11 An evaluation scheme for trader user interfaces.- 12 AI-based trading in open distributed environments.- 13 A model for a federative trader.- 14 Enabling interworking of traders.- 15 An explorative model for federated trading in distributed computing environments.- 16 Cooperation policies for traders.- 17 Charging for information services in ODP systems.- 18 Intercessory objects within channels.- 19 A fault-tolerant remote procedure call system for open distributed processing.- 20 Towards a comprehensive distributed systems management.- 21 Flexible management of ANSAware applications.- 22 DDTK project: analysis, design and implementation of an ODP application.- 23 Experiences with groupware development under CORBA.- 24 Performance analysis of distributed applications with ANSAmon.- 25 Class of service in the high performance storage system.- 26 An approach to quality of service management for distributed multimedia applications.- 27 Integration of performance measurement and modeling for open distributed processing.- 28 A quality of service abstraction tool for advanced distributedapplications.- 29 Quality-of-service directed targeting based on the ODP engineering model.- 30 Quality of service management in distributed systems using dynamic routation.- 31 Some results on cross viewpoint consistency checking.- 32 Maintaining cross viewpoint consistency using Z.- 33 ODP types and their management: an object-Z specification.- 34 Multiware database: a distributed object database system for multimedia support.- 35 ObjectMap: integrating high performance resources into a distributed object-oriented environment.- 36 Experiences with the OSF distributed computing environment.- 37 The TRADEr: Integrating trading into DCE.- 38 Experiences using DCE and CORBA to build tools for creating highly-available distributed systems.- Three Position Statements and Panel Reports.- 39 The open systems industry and the lack of open distributed management.- 40 Murky transparencies: clarity using performance engineering.- 41 Quality of service workshop.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.