Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2004 (MDS2004)

1st International Middleware Doctoral Symposium 2004
(MDS2004)
Co-located with Middleware 2004

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 19th, 2004
http://ecrg.it.nuigalway.ie/mds2004

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Goal

The Middleware Doctoral Symposium is a forum for doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to provide contact to other students at a similar stage in their careers. The mentors are senior university or industry researchers, e.g., current or former members of the Middleware program committee. The goal of the symposium is to expose students to helpful criticism before their thesis defence, and to foster discussions related to future career perspectives. Mentors provide constructive criticism one the current work, and give advice for possible future direction and focus. A similar series of doctoral symposia is held in connection with the OOPSLA and ECOOP conferences.

Symposium Organization

A group of 6 to 8 selected students present their research to one another and to a mock thesis committee of 4 to 5 mentors.

Students

Gorka Guardiola
CUROCO: A Distributed Architecture for the Dynamic Generation, Composition and use of Context in Highly Dynamic and Heterogeneous Environments
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
Adaptive Replication for Web Applications
Enrique Soriano
SHAD: A Human Centered Security Architecture for Partitionable, Dynamic and Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Daniel Oberle
Semantic Management of Middleware
Mirco Musolesi
Designing a Context-aware Middleware for Asynchronous Communication in Mobile Ad Hoc Environments
Raul Silaghi
Refining Designs along Middleware-Specific Concern-Dimensions at Different MDA-Levels of Abstraction
Patricia Kayser Vargas
Application Partitioning and Hierarchical Management in Grid Environments: Status and Feedback
Etienne Schneider
Dynamic Reconfiguration through OSA+1, a Real-Time Middleware

Organizers

Edward Curry	National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Doug Lea	SUNY Oswego, USA

Provisional Mock Thesis Committee: (Upon final/travel confirmation)

Gul Agha	U. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Geoff Coulson	Lancaster U., UK
Doug Lea	SUNY Oswego, USA
Klara Nahrstedt	U. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA
Rick Schantz	BBN Technologies, USA
Stefan Tai	IBM T.J. Watson, USA
Nalini Venkatasubramanian	U. of California, Irvine, USA
Werner Vogels	Cornell U., USA

Goal

Symposium Organization

Students

Organizers

Provisional Mock Thesis Committee: (Upon final/travel confirmation)

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