This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in October 2004.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer computing; routing prools and overlay; middleware for replication and overlay; middleware for replication and transactions; publish/subscribe systems; Web services: composition, integration, and interoperatibilty; middleware for mobility; application servers, enterprise computing, and software engineering.
Invited Paper.- Middleware and Web Services for the Collaborative Information Portal of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers Mission.- Peer-to-Peer Computing.- A Content Model for Evaluating Peer-to-Peer Searching Techniques.- Foreseer: A Novel, Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer System Architecture for Keyword Searches.- Guiding Queries to Information Sources with InfoBeacons.- Routing Prools and Overlays.- The Peer Sampling Service: Experimental Evaluation of Unstructured Gossip-Based Implementations.- Directed Flood-Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks.- On Exploring Performance Optimizations in Web Service Composition.- iOverlay: A Lightweight Middleware Infrastructure for Overlay Application Implementations.- Middleware for Replication and Transactions.- Ganymed: Scalable Replication for Transactional Web Applications.- Adaptive Middleware for Data Replication.- Alternative Edge-Server Architectures for Enterprise JavaBeans Applications.- Transparent Information Dissemination.- Publish/Subscribe.- An Ontology-Based Publish/Subscribe System.- Meghdoot: Content-Based Publish/Subscribe over P2P Networks.- Subscription Propagation in Highly-Available Publish/Subscribe Middleware.- Web Services: Composition, Integration and Interoperability.- Composition of Coordinated Web Services.- Adaptive Resource Sharing in a Web Services Environment.- Interoperability Among Independently Evolving Web Services.- Middleware for Mobility.- SyD: A Middleware Testbed for Collaborative Applications over Small Heterogeneous Devices and Data Stores.- Dynamically Programmable and Reconfigurable Middleware Services.- MiddleWhere: A Middleware for Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Applications.- A Game Theoretic Approach for Power Aware Middleware.- Application Servers, Enterprise Computing, and Software Engineering.- Extending a J2EETM Server with Dynamic and Flexible Resource Management.- Developing and Managing Software Components in an Ontology-Based Application Server.- Portable and Efficient Distributed Threads for Java.- Platform Independent Model Transformation Based on Triple.
Overview
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in October 2004.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 194 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer computing; routing prools and overlay; middleware for replication and overlay; middleware for ...