Ersads 2001
European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems

Advanced School and Workshop

14-18 May 2001
University Residential Center of University of Bologna
Bertinoro (Forlì)
Italy


Session 1: Group Communication
Monday, 14 May 2001, 15.30-17.30

15.30 - 16.00

ARM: Autonomous Replication Management in Jgroup
Hein Meling and Bjarne Helvik
Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

16.00 - 16.30

Design of an Interoperable FT-CORBA Infrastructure
Carlo Marchetti, Antoninino Virgillito and Roberto Baldoni
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Italy

16.30 - 17.00

High-Available Enterprise JavaBeans Using Group Communication System Support
Marcia Pasin and Taisy Silva Weber, Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Michel Riveill, Ecole Superieure en Sciences Informatiques, Universite' de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France

17.00 - 17.30

Light-Weight Groups: an implementation in Ensemble
Alexandre Pinto and Hugo Miranda and Luis Rodrigues
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

 

Session 2: Autonomous Agents
Monday, 14 May 2001, 18.00-19.30

18.00 - 19.30

Anthill: a Framework for the Design and the Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Systems
Alberto Montresor
Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

18.30 - 19.00

Towards Adaptive Fault Tolerance for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems
Olivier Marin, Pierre Sens, Jean-Pierre Briot and Zahia Guessoum
Laboratoire d’Informatique, University Paris 6 - CNRS, Paris, France

19.00 - 19.30

Corda: Distributed Coordination of a Set of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Giuseppe Prencipe
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy

 

Session 3: Fault-Tolerance
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 15.30-17.30

15.30 - 16.00

A Quorum Based Approach to CORBA Fault-Tolerance
Greogory Chockler, Danny Dolev and Dahlia Malkhi
School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

16.00 - 16.30

Replication by Diffusion in Large Networks
Dahlia Malkhi and Yaron Sella
School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

16.30 - 17.00

Availability through Adaptation: a Distributed Application Experiment and Evaluation
Vania Marangozova and Daniel Hagimont
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, St Ismier, France

17.00 - 17.30

Integrating Mobility into Groups
Raimundo Macedo and Flavio Silva
Computing Science Department, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

 

Session 4: Internet Applications
Tuesday, 15 May 2001, 18.00-19.30

18.00 - 19.30

An Adaptative Approach for Downloading Replicated Web Resources
Vittorio Ghini
Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

18.30 - 19.00

Extending DOM to provide an uniform interface to the Internet
Luca Bompani
Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

19.00 - 19.30

The X-Folders Project
Davide Rossi
Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy

 

Session 5: Distributed Operating Systems
Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 15.30-17.30

15.30 - 16.00

Direct Remote Access to Devices
Mads Bondo Dydensborg
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

16.00 - 16.30

Adaptable and Extensible Bindings in Distributed Environment
Aline Senart and Olivier Charra
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, St Ismier, France

16.30 - 17.00

Protection in the Think Exokernel 
Christophe Rippert and Jean-Bernard Stefani
Universitè Joseph Fourier and Institute National de Recerque en Informatique and Automatique

17.00 - 17.30

Platform for Software Reconfiguration in Embedded Systems
Arthur Leger and Bertil Folliot, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 / CNRS, Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Damien Cailliau, Departement d'etudes spatiales / CNRS, Observatoire de Meudon, France

 

Session 6: Middleware
Wednesday, 17 May 2001, 18.00-19.30

18.00 - 19.30

DEEDS - a Distributed and Extensible Event Dissemination Service 
Sergio Duarte
Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

18.30 - 19.00

Preserving Causality in a Scalable Message-Oriented Middleware
Philippe Laumay
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, St Ismier, France

19.00 - 19.30

A Distributed Debugger Framework Applicable in a Java/CORBA Environment
Maximilian Otta
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

 

Session 7: Work/Data-flow Management Systems
Thursday, 18 May 2001, 15.30-17.00

15.30 - 16.00

Hanuri/TFlow: A Workflow Management System for Newly Emerging Computing Environments
Kang-Woo Lee and Han Namgoong
Computer & Software Technology Laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea

16.00 - 16.30

A WMF-based workflow for e-learning
Thomas Vantroys and Yvan Peter
Laboratoire TRIGONE - Equipe NOCE, Cite' Scientique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

16.30 - 17.00

Gemini---a New Model Based on the Data-flow Paradigm
Lukas Petrlik
Department of Computer Science, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic.

 

Session 8: Distributed Systems
Thursday, 18 May 2001, 17.30-19.00

18.00 - 19.30

Identifying Open Problems in Distributed Systems
Andrew Warfield, Yvonne Coady, and Norm Hutchinson
University of British Columbia, Canada

18.30 - 19.00

DCP: An Experiment in Distributed Programming with Domains 
Marc Lacoste
France Telecom R & D, France

19.00 - 19.30

Quality of Service in Indirect Communication Systems
Filipe Araujo and Luis Rodrigues
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal