Middleware 2000: IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing New York, NY, USA, April 4-7, 2000 Proceedings

Overview

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM Interna tional Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distribute d Processing, Middleware 2000, held in New York, NY, in April 2000. Th e 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a tota l of 70 submissions. The book offers an excellent state-of-the-art rep ort on research in the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluat ion of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future netw orked environments. The papers are organized in sections on caching, i ndirection, reflection, messaging, quality of service, transactions an d workflow, and composition.