The main technical program is over three days:
Wednesday, 5 April 2000
Thursday, 6 April 2000
Friday, 7 April 2000

Please note: Author affiliations will be available in the final program.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2000

0900 - 0915: Welcome (J. Sventek)
0915 - 1015: Keynote (J. Waldo)
1015 - 1045: Break
1045 - 1215: Caching (D. Lea)

Implementing Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects
G. Chockler, D. Dolev, R. Friedman, R. Vitenberg

A Middleware System Which Intelligently Caches Query Results
L. Degenaro, A. Iyengar, I. Lipkind, I. Rouvellou

Enabling Interactive Applications over the Internet
V. Krishnaswamy, I. B. Ganev, J. M. Dharap, M. Ahamad

1215 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1500: Indirection (Chair TBD)

MIMO - An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Managing Distributed Middleware Environments
G. Rackl, M. Lindermeier, M. Rudorfer, B. Suss

Gateways for Accessing Fault Tolerance Domains
P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith

An Architecture for Distributed OASIS Services
J. H. Hine, W. Yao, J. Bacon, K. Moody

1500 - 1530: Break
1530 - 1700: Reflection (G. Coulson)

Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB
F. Kon, M. Roman, P. Liu, J. Mao, T. Yamane, L. C. Magalliaes, R. H. Campbell

Customization of Object Request Brokers by Application Specific Policies
B. N. Jorgensen, E. Truyen, F. Matthijs, W. Joosen

The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation in Component-based Middleware Platforms
G. S. Blair, L. Blair, V. Issarny, P. Tuma, A. Zarras

Thursday, 6 April 2000

0900 - 1000: Keynote (K. Birman)
1000 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1200: Messaging (M. van Steen)

Exploiting IP Multicast in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Systems
L. Opyrchal, M. Astley, J. Auerbach, G. Banavar, R. Strom, D. Sturman

The Design and Performance of a Scalable ORB Architecture for CORBA Asynchronous Messaging
A. B. Arulanthu, C. O'Ryan, D. C. Schmidt, M. Kircher, J. Parsons

A publish-subscribe CORBA Persistent State Service Prototype
C. Liebig, M. Cilia, M. Betz, A. Buchmann

1200 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1530: Works in Progress (G. Coulson)
1530 - 1600: Break
1600 - 1730: Quality of Service (J. Bacon)

QualProbes: Middleware QoS Profiling Services for Configuring Adaptive Applications
B. Li, K. Nahrstedt

Structuring QoS-Supporting Services with Smart Proxies
R. Koster, T. Kramp

Trading and Negotiating Stream Bindings
H. O. Rafaelsen, F. Eliassen

Friday, 7 April 2000

0830 - 1000: Transactions and Workflow (R. Strom)

Strategies for Integrating Messaging and Distributed Object Transactions
S. Tai, I. Rouvellou

A distributed object oriented framework to offer transactional support for long running business processes
B. Bennett, A. Leff, T. A. Mikalsen, J. T. Rayfield, I. Rouvellou

Active Middleware Services in a Decision Support System for Managing Distributed Resources
S. A. Fakhouri, W. F. Jerome, V. K. Naik, A. Raina, P. Varma

1000 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1200: Composition (Chair TBD)

The Design and Performance of a Pluggable Protocols Framework for Real-time Distributed Object Computing Middleware
C. O'Ryan, F. Kuhns, D. C. Schmidt, O. Othman, J. Parsons

Customizing IDL Mappings and ORB Protocols
G. Welling, M. Ott

Hierarchical Architecture For Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management
I. Cardei, R. Jha, M. Cardei, A. Pavan

1200 - 1300: Lunch

Comments/questions to publicity chair: Guruduth Banavar