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

Wednesday, 5 April, 2000

0900 - 0915: Welcome: J. Sventek, Agilent Laboratories
0915 - 1015: Keynote by J. Waldo, Sun Microsystems
1015 - 1045: Break
1045 - 1215: Caching.  Chair: D. Lea, SUNY at Oswego

Implementing Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects (presentation)
G. Chockler, D. Dolev (Hebrew University), R. Friedman, R. Vitenberg (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

A Middleware System Which Intelligently Caches Query Results (presentation)
L. Degenaro, A. Iyengar (IBM Research), I. Lipkind (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences), I. Rouvellou (IBM Research)

Enabling Interactive Applications over the Internet (presentation)
V. Krishnaswamy, I. B. Ganev, J. M. Dharap, M. Ahamad (Georgia Institute of Technology)

1215 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1500: Indirection. Chair: R. Stroud, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

MIMO - An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Managing Distributed Middleware Environments (presentation)
G. Rackl, M. Lindermeier, M. Rudorfer, B. Suss (Technical University Munich)

Gateways for Accessing Fault Tolerance Domains (presentation)
P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara)

An Architecture for Distributed OASIS Services (presentation)
J. H. Hine (Victoria University of Wellington), W. Yao, J. Bacon, K. Moody (University of Cambridge)

1500 - 1530: Break
1530 - 1700: Reflection.  Chair: G. Coulson, Lancaster University

Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB (presentation)
F. Kon, M. Roman, P. Liu, J. Mao, T. Yamane, L. C. Magalliaes, R. H. Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Customization of Object Request Brokers by Application Specific Policies (presentation)
B. N. Jorgensen (University of Southern Denmark), E. Truyen, F. Matthijs, W. Joosen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation in Component-based Middleware Platforms (presentation)
G. S. Blair, L. Blair (Lancaster University), V. Issarny (INRIA-Rocquencourt), P. Tuma (Charles University), A. Zarras (INRIA-Rocquencourt)

Thursday, 6 April 2000

0900 - 1000: Keynote by K. Birman, Cornell University
1000 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1200: Messaging.  Chair: M. van Steen, Vrije Universiteit

Exploiting IP Multicast in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Systems (presentation)
L. Opyrchal (University of Michigan), M. Astley, J. Auerbach, G. Banavar, R. Strom, D. Sturman (IBM Research)

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

A publish-subscribe CORBA Persistent State Service Prototype (presentation)
C. Liebig, M. Cilia, M. Betz, A. Buchmann (Darmstadt University of Technology)

1200 - 1330: Lunch
1330 - 1530: Works in Progress.  Chair: G. Coulson, Lancaster University
1530 - 1600: Break
1600 - 1730: Quality of Service.  Chair: J. Bacon, Cambridge University

QualProbes: Middleware QoS Profiling Services for Configuring Adaptive Applications (presentation)
B. Li, K. Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Structuring QoS-Supporting Services with Smart Proxies (presentation)
R. Koster, T. Kramp (University of Kaiserslautern)

Trading and Negotiating Stream Bindings (presentation)
H. O. Rafaelsen (University of Tromso), F. Eliassen (University of Oslo)

Friday, 7 April 2000

0830 - 1000: Transactions and Workflow.  Chair: R. Strom, IBM Research

Strategies for Integrating Messaging and Distributed Object Transactions (presentation)
S. Tai, I. Rouvellou (IBM Research)

A distributed object oriented framework to offer transactional support for long running business processes (presentation)
B. Bennett, A. Leff, T. A. Mikalsen, J. T. Rayfield, I. Rouvellou (IBM Research), Bill Hahm and Kevin Rasmus (Country Companies Insurance)

Active Middleware Services in a Decision Support System for Managing Distributed Resources (presentation)
S. A. Fakhouri, W. F. Jerome, V. K. Naik (IBM Research), A. Raina (IBM Global Services), P. Varma (IBM India Research Laboratory)

1000 - 1030: Break
1030 - 1200: Composition.  Chair: J. Sventek, Agilent Laboratories

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

Customizing IDL Mappings and ORB Protocols (presentation)
G. Welling, M. Ott (NEC-USA)

Hierarchical Architecture For Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management (presentation)
I. Cardei, R. Jha, M. Cardei, A. Pavan (Honeywell Technology Center)

1200 - 1300: Lunch