This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Trends in Distributed Systems, TreDS '96, held in Aachen, Germany, in October 1996.
The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 51 submissions; also included is an invited paper by Sape Mullender and Paul Sijben on quality of service in distributed multimedia systems. Beyond the topic of the CORBA architecture and implementations, the book addresses interoperability issues, formal methods, multimedia communication services, distributed object systems, coordination protocols, reuse, workflow management, etc.
Author(s): Sape J. Mullender, Paul Sijben (auth.), Otto Spaniol, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Bernd Meyer (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1161
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 296
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Multimedia Information Systems; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Database Management
Quality of service in distributed multimedia systems....Pages 1-13
A CORBA compliant real-time multimedia platform for broadband networks....Pages 14-29
Implementation of hidden concurrency in CORBA clients....Pages 30-42
Passing objects by value in CORBA....Pages 43-56
Communication middleware for reliable workflow management systems....Pages 57-70
Metadata modelling for healthcare applications in a federated database system....Pages 71-83
ReGTime — Rent Gigaflops some times....Pages 84-93
Structuring call control software using distributed objects....Pages 94-107
Design and implementation of a multimedia communication service in a distributed environment based on the TINA-C Architecture....Pages 108-121
Exercise of TINA concepts for a video broadcast service over ATM networks....Pages 122-135
CORBA-based data transfer for financial risk management....Pages 136-147
Crossing technological domains using the inter-ORB request level bridge — preliminary performance study....Pages 148-161
Coordination in evolving systems....Pages 162-176
Interoperability of distributed transaction processing systems....Pages 177-190
Reuse and inheritance in distributed object systems....Pages 191-199
Finding optimal services within a CORBA trader....Pages 200-213
Global trader cooperation in open service markets....Pages 214-227
Analysing requirements using ODP....Pages 228-243
Specifying multimedia binding objects in Z....Pages 244-257
A generic and executable model for the specification and validation of distributed behaviors....Pages 258-274
Formal description and interpretation of coordination protocols for teamwork....Pages 275-288
