IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Preface. Third International IFIP TC6 Conference on Open Distributed Processing. List of referees. Part One: INVITED PRESENTATIONS: Reference model of open distributed processing (RM-ODP): Introduction. RM-ODP: The architecture. New ways of learning through the global information infrastructure. Part Two: REVIEWED PAPERS: Session on architecture. The A1 architecture model. Interoperability of distributed platforms: a compatibility perspective. A general resource discovery system for open distributed processing. Session on management - a telecommunications perspective. Management service design: from TMN interface specifications to ODP computational objects. Analysis and design of a management application using RM-ODP and OMT. Distributing public network management systems using CORBA. Session on trading. Designing an ODP trader implementation using X.500. An evaluation scheme for trader user interfaces. AI-based trading in open distributed environments. Session on interworking traders. A model for a federative trader. Enabling interworking of traders. An explorative model for federated trading in distributed computing environments. Cooperation policies for trading. Session on realizing ODP systems. Charging for information services in ODP systems. Intercessory objects within channels. A fault-tolerant remote procedure call system for open distributed processing. Session on managing distributed applications. Towards a comprehensive distributed systems management. Flexible management of ANSAware applications. Session on experience with distributed environments. DDTK project: Analysis, design and implementation of an ODP application. Experiences with groupware development under CORBA. Performance analysis of distributed applications with ANSAmon. Session on quality of service. Class of service in the high performance storage system. An approach to quality of service management for distributed multimedia applications. Integration of performance measurement and modeling for open distributed processing. A quality of service abstraction tool for advanced distributed applications. Quality-of-service directed targeting based on the ODP engineering model. Quality of service management in distributed systems using dynamic routation. Session on formal semantics. Some results on cross viewpoint consistency checking. Maintaining cross viewpoint consistency using Z. ODP types and their management: an object-Z specification. Session on integrating databases in distributed systems. Multiware database: a distributed object database system for multimedia support. ObjectMap: integrating high performance resources into a distributed object-oriented environment. Session on DCE experiences. Experiences with the OSF distributed computing environment. The TRADEr: Integrating trading into DCE. Experiences using DCE and CORBA to build tools for creating highly-available distributed systems. Part Three: POSITION STATEMENTS AND PANEL REPORTS: The open systems industry and the lack of open distributed management. Murky transparencies: clarity using performance engineering. Quality of service workshop. Index of contributors. Keyword index.