The Ninth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS 9) took place at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Lillehammer, Norway, from 6th to 8th September 2000. Previous workshops in the series have been held in Scotland (1 and 2), Australia (3), the USA (4), Italy (5), France (6), and the USA (7 and 8). In keeping with those workshops, POS 9 was short but intensive, fitting 28 papers and panel sessions, a boat 1 excursion, and some memorable meals into two and a half days. The participants’ concentration was no doubt helped by the Northern European weather that prevailed for most of the workshop. Continuing a trend experienced over the previous few workshops, POS 9 had difficulty attracting a high number of papers. Of course it is hard to tell whether this is a problem with the field of persistent systems itself, or merely a consequence of the increasing number of workshops, conferences, and journals competing for submissions. In his Epilogue to the proceedings, Ron Morrison makes some interesting suggestions for possible improvements to future POS workshops. Out of a total of 26 submitted papers, 19 were accepted for presentation at the 2 workshop. Breaking down by region, 6 1/2 came from the USA , 1 from Africa, 3 1/2 from Australia, and 8 from Europe. In a new development for POS, an equal number of papers came from England and from Scotland.
Author(s): Graham N. C. Kirby (auth.), Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Dag I. K. Sjøberg (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2135
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 324
Tags: Software Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Database Management; Logics and Meanings of Programs; Operating Systems
Session 1: Overview....Pages 1-3
A Framework for Persistence-Enabled Optimization of Java Object Stores....Pages 4-17
Architecture of the PEVM: A High-Performance Orthogonally Persistent Java™ Virtual Machine....Pages 18-33
Session 2: Overview....Pages 34-35
A Spatiotemporal Model as the Basis for a Persistent GIS....Pages 36-54
Experience with the PerDiS Large-Scale Data-Sharing Middleware....Pages 55-69
Toward Pure Polylingual Persistence....Pages 70-83
Session 3: Overview....Pages 84-86
Transactional Remote Group Caching in Distributed Object Systems....Pages 87-99
Platypus: Design and Implementation of a Flexible High Performance Object Store....Pages 100-124
Evaluating Partition Selection Policies Using the PMOS Garbage Collector....Pages 125-137
TMOS: A Transactional Garbage Collector....Pages 138-156
Session 4: Overview....Pages 157-160
The Memory Behavior of the WWW, or The WWW Considered as a Persistent Store....Pages 161-176
A Comparison of Two Persistent Storage Tools for Implementing a Search Engine....Pages 177-186
Session 5: Overview....Pages 187-188
An Approach to Implementing Persistent Computations....Pages 189-200
Transparent Orthogonal Checkpointing through User-Level Pagers....Pages 201-214
An Overview of Ulisse, a Distributed Single Address Space System....Pages 215-227
Session 6: Overview....Pages 228-231
Hyper-Code Revisited: Unifying Program Source, Executable, and Data....Pages 232-246
Implementing Orthogonally Persistent Java....Pages 247-261
Session 7: Overview....Pages 262-264
Event Storage and Federation Using ODMG....Pages 265-281
An Application Model and Environment for Personal Information Appliances....Pages 282-291
Scalable and Recoverable Implementation of Object Evolution for the PJama1 Platform....Pages 292-314
Epilogue....Pages 315-319
