Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 4th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2003, Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2003, held in Paris, France, in November 2003. The 21 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptation and separation of concerns; deployment; security and transactions; replication; networking and routing; discovery, context-awareness, and ontologies; and asynchronous messaging. Front Matter....Pages - Towards a Framework for Self-adaptive Component-Based Applications....Pages 1-14 A Scheme for the Introduction of 3rd Party, Application-Specific Adaptation Features in Mobile Service Provision....Pages 15-28 Brenda: Towards a Composition Framework for Non-orthogonal Non-functional Properties....Pages 29-40 Meta-programming Middleware for Distributed Object Computing....Pages 41-48 Middleware Support for Resource-Constrained Software Deployment....Pages 49-60 Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents....Pages 61-72 Facilitating the Portability of User Applications in Grid Environments....Pages 73-85 Negotiation as a Generic Component Coordination Primitive....Pages 86-97 Jironde: A Flexible Framework for Making Components Transactional....Pages 98-109 A Security Architectural Approach for Risk Assessment Using Multi-agent Systems Engineering....Pages 110-124 Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Transactional Information Sharing between Enterprises....Pages 125-132 Adaptable Access Control Policies for Medical Information Systems....Pages 133-140 Client-Side Component Caching....Pages 141-152 A Variable Cache Consistency Protocol for Mobile Systems Using Time Locks....Pages 153-166 DataWarp: Building Applications Which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World....Pages 167-178 Hand-Over Video Cache Policy for Mobile Users....Pages 179-186 Planning for Network-Aware Paths....Pages 187-199 Integrating the Unreliable Multicast Inter-ORB Protocol in MJaco ....Pages 200-211 A-GATE: A System of Relay and Translation Gateways for Communication among Heterogeneous Agents in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments....Pages 212-223 Scalable Location Management for Context-Aware Systems....Pages 224-235 CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to Enable Contextual Interoperability....Pages 236-247 Discovering Web Services Using Behavioural Constraints and Ontology....Pages 248-259 Requirements for Personal Information Agents in the Semantic Web....Pages 260-265 Towards an Intuitive Interface for Tailored Service Compositions....Pages 266-273 Context-Based Addressing: The Concept and an Implementation for Large-Scale Mobile Agent Systems Using Publish-Subscribe Event Notification....Pages 274-284 Exploiting Proximity in Event-Based Middleware for Collaborative Mobile Applications....Pages 285-296 A Flexible Middleware Layer for User-to-User Messaging....Pages 297-309 Back Matter....Pages - This Volume Contains The Proceedings Of Dais 2003, The 4th Ifip Wg 6.1 - Ternational Conference On Distributed Applications And Interoperable Systems. The Conference Was Held In Paris On November 17–21, 2003. The Event Was The Fourth Meeting Of This Conference Series, Which Is Held Roughly Every Two Years. Previous Editions Were Held In 1997 In Cottbus (germany), In 1999 In Helsinki (finland), And In 2001 In Krakow (poland). Following The Evolution Of The ?eld, Dais2003 Focused On Models, Techno- Gies And Platforms For Recon?gurable, Scalable And Adaptable Distributed App- Cations. In Keeping With This Focus, The Call For Papers Especially Encouraged Original Unpublished Papers Addressing The Following Topics: – New/extendedsoftwarearchitecturesandframeworksforrecon?gurationand Adaptation Including Component-based Approaches (e.g., Corba Com- Nents, Ejb, .net), – Modelling, Specifying, Monitoring And Management Of Context-aware And Adaptive Applications, – Support For Recon?guration, Self-organization And Autonomic Behavior In New/existing Distributed Platforms (e.g., Corba, J2ee, .net, Webs- Vices), – Integration Of Multi-agent Distributed Decision-making, – Application Environments That Exploit Characteristics Of Speci?c Technologies (e.g., Grid Computing, Mobile And Wireless), – Issues In Enterprise-wide And Large-scale Application Recon?guration, – Semantic Interoperability And Semantic Web Services. Towards A Framework For Self-adaptive Component-based Applications / Pierre-charles David And Thomas Ledoux -- A Scheme For The Introduction Of 3rd Party, Application-specific Adaptation Features In Mobile Service Provision / Nikos Houssos, Nancy Alonistioti And Lazaros Merakos -- Brenda: Towards A Composition Framework For Non-orthogonal Non-functional Properties / Mikael Beauvois. Jean-bernard Stefani, Isabelle Demeure, Daniel Hagimont, (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.