Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems [electronic resource] : 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.