Third ECOOP Workshop on

MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS:

Operating System support for Mobile Object Systems

Jyväskylä, Finland, June 9-10, 1997

http://cuiwww.unige.ch/~ecoopws/

Call for Papers

SCOPE

The success of massively distributed systems has fuelled the search for a programming paradigm that addresses issues of scale, efficiency and security. Recently a number of new languages and systems that support computation mobility have been developed. Within the framework of object-oriented technology, mobile object systems are groups of running objects that can move over heterogeneous networks, carrying both code and execution state.

Languages vs. Network Operating Systems

Many of the environments for mobile object systems currently available have come from the programming language and network community. Languages such as Telescript, Extended Facile, Obliq and Java have all been used to implement mobile computations. In each case, an important part of the implementation was devoted to a run-time system in charge of: (1) allowing multiple computations to run concurrently, (2) protecting the host from the computation by strict resource access control, (3) protecting computations from other computations, (4) migrating computations. Most often, all of the features are implemented anew, ignoring the services offered by operating systems. The reason is partly because of the desire to be OS-independent and partly because currently OS technology is felt to be inadapted to the needs of mobile applications.

Topics

The goal of this workshop is to explore new directions in operating systems as well as the synergy with mobile computations and object-oriented programming languages. Thus we will identify needs of mobile programs and how these can be met by the innovative operating system designs. A non-exhaustive list of topics include:

SUBMISSIONS

Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic PostScript copy by e-mail to: 
 ecoopws@cui.unige.ch
The paper should be no more than 15 pages in the Springer-Verlag format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Short papers and position papers are welcome.

Papers that attempt to establish links between different approaches and/or include expository or survey material, as well as presenting original results, are welcome. Results should be clear and useful to other practitioners in the field. Description of a new system should include reproducible, useful results or lessons learned.

Papers coming from the mobile computations community should highlight technical aspects and operating system requirements. Papers from the operating systems community should address issues relevant to mobile computations.

All papers will be reviewed and electronic copies will be linked to the Web page of the workshop.

PUBLICATION

The best papers will appear in extended form in a post-workshop proceedings to be published, pending approval, as a Springer Verlag LNCS volume. To be considered for publication, papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

FORMAT

The workshop will take place in the two days before the ECOOP'97 conference. The number of participants will be limited to 20 persons, the selection will be based on the submitted material. The first day of the workshop will be devoted to presentations of on-going work and of state of the art systems. Discussions of the problem topics submitted by the participants will take place on the second day.

Workshop attendees are expected to take an active part in the discussions.

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