Opening Remarks

Session 1

• Using Jini for Complex Systems Integration
  Ben Jai, Bell Labs
• Evolving the Publish-Subscribe Paradigm
  Rob Strom, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
• Computing Communities: Transparent Distribution Middleware
  Vijay Karamcheti, New York University 
• Robustness Testing of CORBA ORB Implementations
  Jiantao Pan, AT&T Labs - Research 
  

Break

Session 2

• Integrating Asynchronous Messaging and Distributed Object Transactions
  Stefan Tai and Isabelle Rouvello, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

• Perfect Failure Detection in Timed Systems with Hardware Watchdogs
  Christof Fetzer, AT&T Labs - Research

• Exemptions from Coordination and the Origins of Primary Partition
  Aleta Ricciardi, Bell Labs

• Fast Deterministic Consensus in a Noisy Environment
  James Aspnes, Yale University

Lunch 
(on your own - IBM has a cafeteria with reasonable selection)

Session 3

• Invited Talk: The Next Generation Internet: Unsafe at any speed?
  Kenneth P. Birman , Cornell University
• Fault Tolerant HLRC Distributed Shared Memory
  Florin Sultan, Thu Nguyen, and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University
• Automatic Configuration and Run-time Adaptation of Distributed Applications
  Fangzhe Chang and Vijay Karamcheti, New York University

Poster Session

• DataSpace - querying and monitoring deeply networked collections in physical space
  Samir Goel and Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University

• Transparent Network Connectivity in Dynamic Cluster Environments
  Xiaodong Fu, Hua Wang, and Vijay Karamcheti, New York University

• Software DSM on PC clusters using the Virtual Interface Architecture
  Murali Rangarajan, Zoltan Jarai, Ricardo Bianchini, Thu Nguyen, and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University

• Modeling Cluster Failures
  Taliver Heath and Rich Martin, Rutgers University

• Split-OS
  Matias Cuenca, Kiran Nagaraj, Kiran Srinivasan, Florin Sultan, Ricardo Bianchini, Richard Martin, Thu D. Nguyen and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University

• Co-operative File Systems for clusters
  Qian Zhang, Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Matias Cuenca, Kiran Srinivasan, Kiran Nagaraja, Chandrashekar Krishnan, Rahul Pupala, Liviu Iftode, Thu Nguyen, Richardo Bianchini - Rutgers University

Session 4

• A Component Description Repository
  Francisco Curbera, Sanjiva Weerawarana and Matthew Duftler, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

• Cluster-Based WWW Servers
  Enrique Vinicio Carrera and Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University

• Prefetching Hyperlinks
  Dan Duchamp, AT&T Labs - Research