The 3rd Workshop on
Adaptive and Reflective Middleware

(RM2004)

Tuesday October 19, 2004
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Preliminary Workshop Program

[8.15]

Workshop Opening Remarks

Section 1: Componentization

Session Chair/Moderator: Yvonne Coady
Devil's Advocate: Renato Cerqueira
[8:30] Konstantin Beznosov, "On the Benefits of Decomposing Policy Engines into Components"
[8:50] Richard Staehli, Frank Elliassen, and Sten Amundsen, "Designing Adaptive Middleware for Reuse"
[9:10] Romain Rouvoy and Philippe Merle, "Towards a Model Driven Approach to Build Component-Based Adaptable Middleware"
[9:30] Qiang Zeng, Prashant S. Kumar, and Gurdip Singh, "Adaptive Event Communication in Component-based Systems"
[9:50] Moderated Discussion
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[10:00]Coffee Break
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Section 2: Managing Crosscutting Concerns

Session Chair/Moderator: Steve Vinoski
Devil's Advocate: Carolyn Talcott
[10:30] Wasif Gilani, Nabeel Hasan Naqvi, and Olaf Spinczyk, "On Adaptable Middleware Product Lines"
[10:50] Robin Liu, Celina Gibbs, and Yvonne Coady, "MADAPT: Managed Aspects for Dynamic Adaptation based on Profiling Techniques"
[11:10] Fabrício Fernandes, Thais Batista, and Nélio Cacho, "Exploring Reflection to Dynamically Aspectizing CORBA-based Applications"
[11:30] Edward Curry, Desmond Chambers, and Gerard Lyons, "ARMAdA: Creating a Reflective Fellowship (Options for interoperability)"
[11:50] Moderated Discussion
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[12:00]Lunch Break
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Section 3: Adaptive Communication Paradigms

Session Chair/Moderator: Gordon Blair
Devil's Advocate: Fabio Kon
[13:30] Sebastian Gutierrez-Nolasco, Mark-Oliver Stehr, Carolyn Talcott and Nalini Venkatasubramanian, "Exploring Adaptability of Secure Group Communication using Formal Prototyping Techniques"
[13:50] Luís Veiga and Paulo Ferreira, "PoliPer: Policies for Mobile and Pervasive Environments"
[14:10] L. Robert Varney and D. Scott Parker, "Interface-Oriented Middleware and Distributed Service Inference"
[14:30] Mathieu Leclercq, Vivien Quema, and Jean-Bernard Stefani, "DREAM: a Component Framework for the Construction of Resource-Aware, Reconfigurable MOMs"
[14:50] Moderated Discussion
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[15:00]Coffee Break
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Section 4: Adaptive Services and Applications

Session Chair/Moderator: Gurdip Singh
Devil's Advocate: Richard Staehli
[15:30] Nico Janssens, Lieven Desmet, Sam Michiels and Pierre Verbaeten, "NeCoMan: Middleware for Safe Distributed Service Deployment in Programmable Networks"
[15:50] Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, and Paul Grace, "Research Directions in Reflective Middleware: the Lancaster Experience"
[16:10] Angela C. Sodan and Lin Han, "ATOP--Space and Time Adaptation for Parallel and Grid Applications via Flexible Data Partitioning"
[16:30] Z. Yang, Z. Zhou, B. H.C. Cheng, and P. K. McKinley, "Enabling Collaborative Adaptation across Legacy Components"
[16:50] Moderated Discussion
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[17:00] Panel on Future Trends in Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
Panelists: Gordon Blair, Fabio Kon, Carolyn Talcott, Steve Vinoski
Panel Moderator: Renato Cerqueira, Richard Staehli
[17:50] Workshop Closing Remarks