[ ARCHIVE ] The 8th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'06)

Montpellier, France, Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2006

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

Some of the world's most important and critical software systems are based on distributed object technologies. Distributed objects are at the heart of component-based systems, service-oriented architectures and agent-based systems. When a phone call is made, a financial transaction performed, or an order placed at an Internet Shop, chances are that distributed objects are acting in the background.

Whether you are a researcher or practitioner who is building innovative distributed systems, evaluating emerging technologies, and managing large-scale applications, you should consider contributing a practice report or a research paper to this symposium to present, discuss and obtain feedback for your ideas from other practitioners and researchers active in this area.

Although existing distribution technologies, such as CORBA, .NET and Java-based technologies have been widely successful and have reached considerable maturity, they are still evolving and serving as inspiration for emerging technologies and standards, such as Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures. Common to all these approaches are goals such as openness, reliability, scalability, distribution transparency, security, ease of development, and support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Also, of utmost importance today is the ability to integrate distributed object systems with other technologies such as the web, multimedia systems, databases, grid computing, peer-to-peer systems, and ubiquitous computing environments. Along with the rapid evolution of these fields, continuous research and development is required in object-based distribution technologies to advance the state of the art and broaden the scope of the applicability.

Two Dimensions: Research & Practice

Research in distributed objects, components, services, and applications establishes new principles that open the way to solutions that can meet the requirements of tomorrow's applications. Conversely, practical experience in real-world projects drives this same research by exposing new ideas and posing new types of problems to be solved. With DOA 2006 we explicitly intend to provide a forum to help this mutual interaction occur, and to trigger and foster it. Submissions are therefore welcomed along both these dimensions: research (fundamentals, concepts, principles, evaluations, patterns, and algorithms) and practice (applications, experience, case studies, and lessons). Contributions attempting to cross over the gap between these two dimensions are particularly encouraged.

As we are fully aware of the differences in environment for research and development that exist in academia and industry, submissions from each will be treated accordingly and judged by a peer review not only for scientific rigor (in the case of "academic research" papers), but also for originality and generality of applications and case studies (in the case of "case studies" papers).

DOA 2006 is a joint event with two other conferences organized within the global theme "Meaningful internet systems and ubiquitous computing." This federated event co-locates three related and complementary conferences in the areas of Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in data and web semantics (ODBASE'06), distributed objects, infrastructure and enabling technology and Internet computing (DOA'06), and workflow, cooperation, and interoperability (CoopIS'06), as required for the deployment of Internet- and intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. More details about this federated event can be found at www.onthemove-conferences.org.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive distributed object and component systems
• Aspect-oriented approaches for augmenting distribution technologies
• Application case studies of distribution technologies (e.g., based on CORBA, Java, .Net, and Web Services)
• Applications and evaluations of the Model Driven Architecture approach
• Component-based software development
• Design patterns for distributed systems
• Distributed business objects and components
• Distributed object infrastructures in resource-constrained devices
• Grid applications that emphasise the importance of objects
• Integrated development environments
• Interoperability between object systems and complementary technologies
• Middleware for distributed object computing
• Migration of legacy distributed object systems to service-oriented architectures
• Mobility in distributed systems
• Performance analysis of distributed object computing systems
• Real-time solutions for distributed objects
• Scalability for distributed objects and object middleware
• Security for distributed object systems
• Self-organizing systems
• Service-oriented architectures
• Specification and enforcement of Quality of Service
• Technologies for reliability and fault-tolerance
• Testing and validation of distributed object systems
• Ubiquitous computing and embedded systems
• Web-based distributed objects

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany
Makoto Takizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan

Program Committee Members

Cristiana Amza, University of Toronto, Canada
Matthias Anlauff, Kestrel Institute, USA
Mark Baker, Independent consultant, Canada
Guruduth Banavar, IBM, USA
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Harold Carr, Sun Microsystems, USA
Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Francisco "Paco" Curbera, IBM, USA
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo
Tomoya Enokido, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Patrick Eugster, Sun Microsystems
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Franz Hauck, University of Ulm, Germany
Naohiro Hayashibara, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Mehdi Jazayeri, Technical University of Vienna, Austria and University of Lugano, Switzerland
Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Joe Loyall, BBN Technologies, USA
Peter Loehr, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Frank Manola, Independent consultant
Keith Moore, HP
Francois Pacull, Xerox, France
Simon Patarin, Flexeye Technology Corp.
Peter Pietzuch, Harvard University, USA
Joao Pereira, INESC-ID, Portugal
Arno Puder, San Francisco State University
Rajendra Raj, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Andry Rakotonirainy, The University of Queensland, Australia
Luis Rodrigues, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Isabelle Rouvellou, IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Rick Schantz, BBN, USA
Heinz-W Schmidt, Monash University, Australia
Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Richard Soley, OMG, USA
Michael Stal, Siemens, Germany
Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA, France
Stefan Tai, IBM, USA
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies, USA
Norbert Voelker, University of Essex, UK
Andrew Watson, OMG
Torben Weis, University of Stuttgart
Doug Wells, Connection Technologies, USA
Michael Zapf, University of Kassel