Workshop on Object Replication and Mobile Computing - ORMC'96

                     San Jose, Califonia, October 7

                       (at the OOPSLA conference)

                 URL: http://www.diku.dk/distlab/ormc96


NEW: Submission deadline has been extended to August 17th.


Overview:

The dissemination of mobile resources together with the growth of
interconnectivity are two key factors of our future computing environment.
Two of the open research issues in this new environment are: the
identification of new applications that provide functionality
from mobility, and the identification of the kind of underlying platforms
and paradigms that will support these applications.

Some of the new issues concern the management of mutating
communication channels for mobile object location identification,
the design of mobile applications using object orientation,
the specification of protocols allowing operations on a distributed
mobile state, and the creation and reconciliation of replicas to
support of disconnected operation.


Goals:

The workshop is to provide an object-oriented perspective
concering possible future mobile environments.
We specifically ask for contributions that address the binding of objects and
object-oriented technology to replication and mobility issues.


Focus:  

The workshop focuses on (but is not limited to) the following topics:
Mobile objects, migration, protocols, replication, location,
naming, disconnected operation, coordination, object grouping, mobile
applications, and mobile access to network/Internet/WWW.

The workshop consists of sessions. Each session begins with
short presentations and ends with more general discussion of
the objectives of the session.
The presenters will be chosen among a subset of the participants (i.e.,
not everyone should expect to present their position paper).


Requirements for Attendance:

Interested participants must submit a position paper (max. 4 pages) by
Email (Postscript or plain text). All submitted papers will be made
available via WWW.
 
Participation is by invitation only based on submitted papers.
Priority is given to papers suitable for sparking discussions.
There is a limited number of spaces available for active
Ph.D. students.  Such students should merely submit a short description of
their background and a recommendation from their Ph.D. advisor (e-mail is
OK) and attesting to the fact that the student is a full-time Ph.D. student.

Submission deadline is August 5th and acceptance notification will be
e-mailed no later than August 20th.
NB: Submission deadline has now been extended to August 17th.


Organizers:

Eric Jul
eric@diku.dk
DIKU, University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 1, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.diku.dk/~eric/
 
Birger Andersen  
birger@diku.dk
DIKU, University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 1, Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.diku.dk/~birger/

Carlos Baquero
cbm@di.uminho.pt
DI, Universidade do Minho
Campus Gualtar - Braga, Portugal
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~cbm/

Francisco Moura
fsm@di.uminho.pt
DI, Universidade do Minho
Campus Gualtar - Braga, Portugal
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~fsm/


Submissions:

Eric Jul (submissions by email only, to eric@diku.dk)
Telephone: +45 35 32 14 14       Fax: +45 35 32 14 01