Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 4th IFIP WG6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2003, Paris, France, November 17-21, 2003, Proceedings

Session I: Adaptation - Separation of Concerns.- Towards a Framework for Self-adaptive Component-Based Applications.- A Scheme for the Introduction of 3rd Party, Application-Specific Adaptation Features in Mobile Service Provision.- Brenda: Towards a Composition Framework for Non-orthogonal Non-functional Properties.- Meta-programming Middleware for Distributed Object Computing.- Session II: Deployment.- Middleware Support for Resource-Constrained Software Deployment.- Rational Server Selection for Mobile Agents.- Facilitating the Portability of User Applications in Grid Environments.- Negotiation as a Generic Component Coordination Primitive.- Session III: Security - Transactions.- Jironde: A Flexible Framework for Making Components Transactional.- A Security Architectural Approach for Risk Assessment Using Multi-agent Systems Engineering.- Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Transactional Information Sharing between Enterprises.- Adaptable Access Control Policies for Medical Information Systems.- Session IV: Replication.- Client-Side Component Caching.- A Variable Cache Consistency Protocol for Mobile Systems Using Time Locks.- DataWarp: Building Applications Which Make Progress in an Inconsistent World.- Hand-Over Video Cache Policy for Mobile Users.- Session V: Networking and Routing.- Planning for Network-Aware Paths.- Integrating the Unreliable Multicast Inter-ORB Protocol in MJaco.- A-GATE: A System of Relay and Translation Gateways for Communication among Heterogeneous Agents in Ad Hoc Wireless Environments.- Session VI: Discovery - Context-Awareness - Ontology.- Scalable Location Management for Context-Aware Systems.- CoOL: A Context Ontology Language to Enable Contextual Interoperability.- Discovering Web Services Using Behavioural Constraints andOntology.- Requirements for Personal Information Agents in the Semantic Web.- Towards an Intuitive Interface for Tailored Service Compositions.- Session VII: Asynchronous Messaging.- Context-Based Addressing: The Concept and an Implementation for Large-Scale Mobile Agent Systems Using Publish-Subscribe Event Notification.- Exploiting Proximity in Event-Based Middleware for Collaborative Mobile Applications.- A Flexible Middleware Layer for User-to-User Messaging.