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Technical Program   Thursday, May 6, 1999

9:00am - 10:00am    
Safe Yet Efficient Data Sharing in Wide-Area Distributed Systems
Barbara Liskov, Ford Professor of Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


10:00am - 10:30am     Break

10:30am - 12:00pm
Optimization
Session Chair: Werner Vogels, Cornell University
JMAS: A Java-Based Mobile Actor System for Distributed Parallel Computing
Legand L. Burge III and K. M. George, Oklahoma State University

Adaptation and Specialization for High Performance Mobile Agents
Dong Zhou and Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Design Considerations and Performance Optimizations for Real-time ORBs
Aniruddha Gokhale, Lucent Bell Labs; Irfan Pyarali, Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas Schmidt, Vishal Kachroo, Alexander Arulanthu, and Nanbor Wang, Washington University, St. Louis

12:00pm - 1:30pm     Lunch (on your own)

1:30pm - 3:00pm
Programming in the Large
Session Chair: Joe Sventek, Hewlett-Packard Labs
The Application of Object-Oriented Design Techniques to the Evolution of the Architecture of a Large Legacy Software System
Jeff Mason and Emil Ochotta, Xilinx Inc.

Supporting Automatic Configuration of Component-Based Distributed Systems
Fabio Kon and Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Automating Three Modes of Evolution for Object-Oriented Software Architectures
Lance Tokuda and Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin

3:00pm - 3:30pm     Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm     Java
Internet Measurements
Session Chair: Ken Arnold, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Design and Implementation of Guaraná
Alexandre Oliva and Luiz Eduardo Buzato, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Tuning Branch Predictors to Support Java Method Invocation
N. Vijaykrishnan, Pennsylvania State University and N. Ranganathan, University of Texas at El Paso

Comprehensive Profiling Support in the Java Virtual Machine
Sheng Liang and Deepa Viswanathan, Sun Microsystems Inc.

 

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