Trends in Distributed Systems: CORBA and Beyond

Quality of service in distributed multimedia systems.- A CORBA compliant real-time multimedia platform for broadband networks.- Implementation of hidden concurrency in CORBA clients.- Passing objects by value in CORBA.- Communication middleware for reliable workflow management systems.- Metadata modelling for healthcare applications in a federated database system.- ReGTime — Rent Gigaflops some times.- Structuring call control software using distributed objects.- Design and implementation of a multimedia communication service in a distributed environment based on the TINA-C Architecture.- Exercise of TINA concepts for a video broadcast service over ATM networks.- CORBA-based data transfer for financial risk management.- Crossing technological domains using the inter-ORB request level bridge — preliminary performance study.- Coordination in evolving systems.- Interoperability of distributed transaction processing systems.- Reuse and inheritance in distributed object systems.- Finding optimal services within a CORBA trader.- Global trader cooperation in open service markets.- Analysing requirements using ODP.- Specifying multimedia binding objects in Z.- A generic and executable model for the specification and validation of distributed behaviors.- Formal description and interpretation of coordination protocols for teamwork.