9.00 – 9.10 Welcome

9.10 – 11.00 Session I – Architectures

• Flexible Distributed Process Topologies for Enterprise Applications,
  Christoph Hartwich, (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
• An Architecture for the UniFrame Resource Discovery Service
  Nanditha N. Siram, Rajeev R. Raje, Andrew M. Olson, (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, U.S.A.),
  Barrett R. Bryant, Carol C. Burt (University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A.),
  Mikhail Auguston (New Mexico State University, U.S.A.)
• An Architecture of a Quality of Service Resource Manager Middleware for
  Flexible Multimedia Embedded Systems
  Marisol Garcia Valls (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
  Alejandro Alonso, José F. Ruiz, Angel Groba (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.45 Sessions II – Specification

• An Event/Rule Framework for Specifying the Behavior of Distributed Systems
  Javier A. Arroyo-Figueroa, José A. Borges, Néstor Rodríguez,
  Amarilis Cuaresma-Zevallos, Edwin Moulier-Santiago, Miguel Rivas-Avilés,
  Jaime Yeckle –Sánchez (University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Campus, Puerto Rico)
• Modelling and Specification of Interfaces for Standard-driven Distributed Software Architectures in the E-learning Domain
  Luis Anido, Manuel Caeiro, Juan Santos, Judith Rodríguez (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)

14.15 – 16.15 Session III – Components & Adaptations

• A Component-Based Architecture for Collaborative Applications in Internet
  Flavio De Paoli (Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
• Composing Distributed Components with the Component Workbench
  Johann Oberleitner, Thomas Gschwind (TU Wien, Austria)
• FORMAware: framework of reflective components for managing architecture adaptation
  Rui S. Moreira (Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal),
  Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, U.K.),
  Eurico M. Carrapatoso (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, Portugal)
• Type Based Adaptation: An Adaptation Approach for Dynamic Distributed Systems
  Thomas Gschwind (TU Wien, Austria)

16.15 – 16.45 Coffee Break

16.45 – 17.45 Session IV – Technologies

• An Evaluation of the Use of Enterprise Java Beans 2.0 Local Interfaces
  Hans Albrecht Schmid (University of Applied Sciences, Konstanz, Germany)
• Dynamic Iinstrumentation for JINI Applications
  Denis Reilly, A. Taleb-Bendiab (Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.)

8.45 – 10.15 Invited Talk

10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break

10.45 – 12.45 Session V – Services

• Message Queuing Patterns for Middleware-Mediated Transactions
  Stefan Tai, Thomas Mikalsen, Isabelle Rouvellou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.)
  Alexander Totok (New York University, U.S.A.)
• Towards Dynamic Reconfiguration of Distributed Publish-Subscribe Middleware
  Gianpaolo Cugola, Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  Amy L. Murphy (University of Rochester, U.S.A.)
• Active Replication of Software Components
  Juan Pavón, Luis M. Peña (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
• Building Test Constraint for Distributed System Testing with Middleware
  Jessica Chen (University of Windsorm, Canada)

12.45 – 13.00 Conclusions