5. Middleware 2004: Toronto, Canada

Invited Paper

• Elias Sinderson, Vish Magapu, Ronald Mak:
  Middleware and Web Services for the Collaborative Information Portal of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers Mission. 1-17
  

Peer-to-Peer Computing

• Brian F. Cooper:
  A Content Model for Evaluating Peer-to-Peer Searching Techniques. 18-37
  
• Hailong Cai, Jun Wang:
  Foreseer: A Novel, Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer System Architecture for Keyword Searches. 38-58
  
• Brian F. Cooper:
  Guiding Queries to Information Sources with InfoBeacons. 59-78
  

Routing Protocols and Overlays

• Márk Jelasity, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Maarten van Steen:
  The Peer Sampling Service: Experimental Evaluation of Unstructured Gossip-Based Implementations. 79-98
  
• Miklós Maróti:
  Directed Flood-Routing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks. 99-114
  
• Jingwen Jin, Klara Nahrstedt:
  On Exploring Performance Optimizations in Web Service Composition. 115-134
  
• Baochun Li, Jiang Guo, Mea Wang:
  iOverlay: A Lightweight Middleware Infrastructure for Overlay Application Implementations. 135-154
  

Middleware for Replication and Transactions

• Christian Plattner, Gustavo Alonso:
  Ganymed: Scalable Replication for Transactional Web Applications. 155-174
  
• Jesús M. Milán-Franco, Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Bettina Kemme:
  Adaptive Middleware for Data Replication. 175-194
  
• Avraham Leff, James T. Rayfield:
  Alternative Edge-Server Architectures for Enterprise JavaBeans Applications. 195-211
  
• Amol Nayate, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iyengar:
  Transparent Information Dissemination. 212-231
  

Publish/Subscribe

• Jinling Wang, Beihong Jin, Jing Li:
  An Ontology-Based Publish/Subscribe System. 232-253
  
• Abhishek Gupta, Ozgur D. Sahin, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  Meghdoot: Content-Based Publish/Subscribe over P2P Networks. 254-273
  
• Yuanyuan Zhao, Daniel C. Sturman, Sumeer Bhola:
  Subscription Propagation in Highly-Available Publish/Subscribe Middleware. 274-293
  

Web Services: Composition, Integration and Interoperability

• Stefan Tai, Rania Khalaf, Thomas A. Mikalsen:
  Composition of Coordinated Web Services. 294-310
  
• Vijay K. Naik, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Sriram Krishnan:
  Adaptive Resource Sharing in a Web Services Environment. 311-330
  
• Shankar Ponnekanti, Armando Fox:
  Interoperability Among Independently Evolving Web Services. 331-351
  

Middleware for Mobility

• Sushil K. Prasad, Vijay K. Madisetti, Shamkant B. Navathe, Raj Sunderraman, Erdogan Dogdu, Anu G. Bourgeois, Michael Weeks, Bing Liu, Janaka Balasooriya, Arthi Hariharan, Wanxia Xie, Praveen Madiraju, Srilaxmi Malladi, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Alexander Zelikovsky, Yanqing Zhang, Yi Pan, Saeid Belkasim:
  SyD: A Middleware Testbed for Collaborative Applications over Small Heterogeneous Devices and Data Stores. 352-371
  
• Manuel Román, Nayeem Islam:
  Dynamically Programmable and Reconfigurable Middleware Services. 372-396
  
• Anand Ranganathan, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Shiva Chetan, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas:
  MiddleWhere: A Middleware for Location Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing Applications. 397-416
  
• Shivajit Mohapatra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian:
  A Game Theoretic Approach for Power Aware Middleware. 417-438
  

Application Servers, Enterprise Computing, and Software Engineering

• Mick J. Jordan, Grzegorz Czajkowski, Kirill Kouklinski, Glenn Skinner:
  Extending a J2EETM Server with Dynamic and Flexible Resource Management. 439-458
  
• Daniel Oberle, Andreas Eberhart, Steffen Staab, Raphael Volz:
  Developing and Managing Software Components in an Ontology-Based Application Server. 459-477
  
• Eli Tilevich, Yannis Smaragdakis:
  Portable and Efficient Distributed Threads for Java. 478-492
  
• Andreas Billig, Susanne Busse, Andreas Leicher, Jörn Guy Süß:
  Platform Independent Model Transformation Based on Triple. 493-512