OM 2001: Technical Program

Note: Papers from the workshop can be found in the official ACM proceedings, which appeared in ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 36, Issue 8 (August 2001). Look for the papers at the bottom of the table of content.

8:30 - 10:00

Opening Remarks

Keynote Speech: Stuck in the middle: challenges and trends in optimizing middleware (slides)
Daniel Yellin
IBM Distinguished Engineer,
Director of Software Technology,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

10:30 - 12:00

Middleware For Building Adaptive Systems Via Configuration (slides)
Sanjai Narain, Ravichander Vaidyanathan, Stanley Moyer, William Stephens, Kirthika Parameswaran, and Abdul-Rahim Shareef, Telcordia Technologies
Designing and Optimizing a Scalable CORBA Notification Service (slides)
Pradeep Gore, Ron Cytron Douglas Schmidt, and Carlos O’Ryan, UC Irvine
Optimizing Distributed System Performance via Adaptive Middleware Load Balancing (slides)
Ossama Othman, and Douglas C. Schmidt, UC Irvine

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:30

Invited Talk Optimizing Component Interaction (slides)
Mark Wegman
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

2:45 - 4:45

Optimizing Threadpool Strategies for Real-Time CORBA (slides)
Irfan Pyarali, Marina Spivak, Ron Cytron, and Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University / UC Irvine
Designing an Efficient and Scalable Server-side Asynchrony Model for CORBA (slides)
Darrell Brunsch, Carlos O’Ryan, and Douglas C. Schmidt, UC Irvine
Integration of QoS-Enabled Distributed Object Computing Middleware for Developing Next-Generation Distributed Applications (slides)
Yamuna Krishnamurthy, Vishal Kachroo, David A. Karr, Craig Rodrigues, Joseph P. Loyall, Richard Schantz, Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, BBN Corporation, UC Irvine
Language and Compiler Support for Adaptive Distributed Applications (slides)
Vikram Adve, Vinh Vi Lam, and Brian Ensink, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

5:00 - 6:00

Invited Talk: Using Cohort Scheduling to Enhance Server Performance
Jim Larus
Microsoft Research

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