Worldwide Computing and Its Applications: International Conference, WWCA '97, Tsukuba, Japan, March 10-11, 1997 Proceedings. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997. The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distributed applications, Internet and protocols, distributed system platforms, mobile computing, and application gateways. Java and the emerging technology....Pages 1-6 Transcopyright: A simple legal arrangement for sharing, re-use, and republication of copyrighted material on the net....Pages 7-14 Building secure and reliable network applications....Pages 15-28 HORB: Distributed execution of Java programs....Pages 29-42 Performance of the messengers autonomous-objects-based system....Pages 43-57 Engineering component-based systems with distributed object technology....Pages 58-73 Local Class Name Space Facility for Worldwide Object-Oriented Distributed Systems Environment....Pages 74-89 A component-oriented architecture to design multimedia services on a distributed platform....Pages 90-105 Teamwork via team plans in intelligent autonomous agent systems....Pages 106-121 WISH: A web information sharing system accessible via the WWW....Pages 122-132 Organic programming for cooperative computation....Pages 133-141 Emerging groupware successes in major corporations: Studies of adoption and adaptation....Pages 142-153 An approach toward fits evaluation between organizational culture and groupware....Pages 154-165 A realization of a reflection of personal information on distributed brainstorming environment....Pages 166-181 A hybrid approach to multimedia database systems through integration of semantics and media-based search....Pages 182-197 The universal B-tree for multidimensional indexing: General concepts....Pages 198-209 Spatial views and LOD-based access control in VRML-object databases....Pages 210-225 Metacomputing and data-intensive applications....Pages 226-236 Architectural issues of database systems in advanced computer networks....Pages 237-252 Aglets: Programming mobile agents in Java....Pages 253-266 WWW cache management and its international deployment....Pages 267-280 VINES: Distributed algorithms for a web-based distributed network management system....Pages 281-293 An algorithm for cost-delay balanced trees and its application to wide area network multicast....Pages 294-308 Server initiated delivery of multimedia information....Pages 309-317 Dynamic loadable object support for real-time mach kernels....Pages 318-333 A micro-kernel for isochronous video-data transfer....Pages 334-349 Metaspaces and mobile computing: Promises and challenges....Pages 350-362 Position locking: Handling location dependent queries in mobile computing environment....Pages 363-378 Robust host mobility supports for adaptive mobile applications....Pages 379-393 Access control for inter-organizational computer network environment....Pages 394-409 The world wide shell based on the object-stacking model....Pages 410-425 DeleGate: A general purpose application level gateway....Pages 426-441

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997.
The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distributed applications, Internet and prools, distributed system platforms, mobile computing, and application gateways.

This volume presents 15 revised full papers taken from the 1997 International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA '97. Topical sections include distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, and co-operative computation.