Selected Recent Papers and Technical Reports (original) (raw)

OBJS Technical Reports & Publications

Selected Recent Papers and Technical Reports -- also see OBJS bios

*** 2002**

• ProbeMeister: Distributed Runtime Software Instrumentation, Paul Pazandak and David Wells, accepted to USE 2002, Spain, June 2002
• 2000
  • Characterizing the Agent Grid, Frank Manola and Craig Thompson, for: Bradshaw's Handbook of Agent Technology, based on
    • Characterizing Computer-Related Grid Concepts, Frank Manola, 12/98, revised 3/98
    • Characterizing the Agent Grid, Craig Thompson, draft 11/98, revised 1/99
• 1999
  • Agent Glossary, Craig Thompson et. al. for OMG Agent Technology Green Paper, see Agent WG homepage
  • Agents for the Masses, Thompson, Bannon, Pazandak, and Vasudevan, invited paper, Agent 99 Workshop on Agent-Based High Performance Computing: Problem Solving Applications And Practical Deployment, Seattle, May 1 1999.
  • Agility contractTechnical Notes
    • Agility Project Summary, Craig Thompson
    • Strawman Agent Reference Architecture, Craig Thompson
    • Best of Class Agent System Features, Paul Pazandak
    • Agent System Comparison, Paul Pazandak
    • Summary of Hadas, Sodabot, Software Dock, and VisitorBot, Venu Vasudevan
    • Comparison of ACLs, Venu Vasudevan
    • HLA and ACL, Mark Palmer
    • Information Access Services, Craig Thompson
    • Ontologies (and service trading), Venu Vasudevan
    • Agent Standards, Frank Manola
    • Jini Overview, Paul Pazandak
    • Agent Bibliography, Gil Hansen
  • Providing Systemic Properties (Ilities) and Quality of Service in Component-Based Systems, Frank Manola
  • Flexible Common Schema Study, Frank Manola
  • Survivability in Object Services Architectures (OSAs), DARPA contract, PI: David Wells, May 1999
  • Intermediary Architecture. Craig Thompson et al, ACM Computing Surveys, Special Issue on Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization, March 1999.
  • WebTrader: Discovery and Programmed Access to Web-Based Services, Venu Vasudevan and Tom Bannon, accepted for poster session at The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, on May 11-14, 1999. Short versions: WebTrader and WebTrader,
  • The Interceptor Architecture: A Scalable Java-based Architecture to Dynamically Extend Web Applications and Support Web Objects, Paul Pazandak.
  • On Web Annotation: Promises and Pitfalls of Web Infrastructure. Venu Vasudevan and Mark Palmer, 32nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1999.
  • Everything is Alive, Craig Thompson, January 1999.
  • Technologies for a Web Object Model. Frank Manola, to appear as lead article in the Special Issue on Web Object Models, IEEE Internet Computing, Jan/Feb 1999.
• 1998
  • Scaling Object Services Architectures to the Internet, Final Report. DARPA contract, PI: Craig Thompson, September, 1998.
    • Intermediary Architecture. Craig Thompson September, 1998.
    • Intermediary Architecture Interceptor. Paul Pazandak, September, 1998.
    • Web Object Model. Frank Manola, September, 1998.
    • Annotation Service. Venu Vasudevan and Mark Palmer, September, 1998.
    • Personal Network Performance Monitor Service. Gil Hansen, September, 1998.
    • NLI Query Interface. Gli Hansen, September, 1998.
    • Trader Service. Venu Vasudevan and Tom Bannon, September, 1998.
    • WebTrader, Tom Bannon, September, 1998
  • Augmenting OMG Traders to handle Service Composition. Venu Vasudevan, September 1998
  • Some Web Object Model Construction Technologies. Frank Manola, September, 1998.
  • Towards a Richer Web Object Model. Frank Manola, SIGMOD Record, Volume 27, Number 1, March 1998
  • Towards a Web Object Model. Frank Manola, January 1998.
  • OMG-DARPA Workshop on Compositional Architectures. Craig Thompson (co-organizer). Monterey, January 6-8, 1998.
    • Workshop Report. Craig Thompson (editor), published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN).
    • Intermediary Architecture: Interposing middleware services and ilities between web client and server. Craig Thompson et. al.
    • A Reference Model for Trader-Based Distributed Systems Architectures. Venu Vasudevan
    • Survivability in Object Services Architectures. David Wells and David Langworthy
• 1997
  • OMG OMA NG: Towards the Next Generation OMG Object Management Architecture. Presented at OMG. Craig Thompson (co-author). October, 1997.
  • Evaluating Object Database Management System Functionality to Support Multimedia. Paul Pazandak. IEEE Multimedia Journal Special Issue on Multimedia Database Management Systems. Fall 1997.
  • Web Programming Languages. Steve Ford, David Wells, and Nancy Wells. WebApps Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1, January/February 1997. Cover story.
  • Satellite Network Management. Venu Vasudevan. 5th International Conference On Telecommunications. January 1997. Won Best Paper Award at Object World.
  • Internet Tools Survey, David Wells, Craig Thompson, 1996-1997
    • Visions: Application and Technology Drivers, Craig Thompson, Frank Manola, January 1997
    • Virtual Office
      • Virtual Office White Paper, Craig Thompson, Shaun Joseph, January 1997
      • Enabling Technology for Virtual Office Applications, Frank Manola, January 1997
      • Electronic Support for Collaboration & Decision Making in OBJS, David Wells, Dec 1996
      • Initial Use of COTS Tools in the OBJS Virtual Office, Frank Manola, May 1997
      • Virtual Office Scenarios, Frank Manola, January 1997
    • Objects and the Internet
      • Componentware Glossary, Craig Thompson, Frank Manola, January 1997
      • Internet Engineering Task Force Overview, Craig Thompson, April 1996
      • Object Management Group Overview, Craig Thompson, April 1996
      • Object Models, Craig Thompson, April 1996
      • Requirements for OO + Web Integration, Craig Thompson, January 1997
      • Current Web Architecture, Craig Thompson, Gil Hansen, January 1997
      • Web Programming Languages, Steve Ford, David Wells, Nancy Wells, January 1997
      • Web + Object Integration, Gil Hansen, Craig Thompson, January 1997 (draft)
      • Web + DBMS Integration, Craig Thompson, Paul Pazandak, January 1997
      • Semantic File Systems, Paul Pazandak, Venu Vesudevan, January 1997
      • Wrappers, David Wells, April 1996
      • Quality of Service, Gil Hansen, January 1997
    • Managing and Using Information
      • Hypermedia Systems and WWW Browsers, David Wells, April 1996
      • HTML Authoring Tools, David Wells, April 1996
      • Searching and Indexing, David Wells, Ansu Kurien, April 1996
      • Groupware & Collaboration Support, David Wells, Ansu Kurien, April 1996
      • Video Conferencing, Steve Ford, April 1996
    • Security
      • Authentication, David Wells, April 1996
      • Encryption, David Wells, April 1996
      • Virtual Private Networks, Steve Ford, January 1997
• 1996
  • Transforming the Database System into an Open Service Concept. Frank Manola. December 1996 (requires ACM account to read).
  • Workshop at OOPSLA'96: Toward the integration of WWW and Distributed Object Technology. Craig Thompson (co-organizer). June 1996. Position papers.
  • Joint W3C-OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects and Mobile Code. Craig Thompson (co-organizer). Boston, June 24-25, 1996.
• 1995
  • NIIIP Reference Architecture: Concepts and Guidelines. Craig Thompson (co-author). DARPA TRP National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium, 1995.
  • Reference Architecture for the Intelligent Integration of Information. Craig Thompson (co-author). DARPA ISO, 1995.
• 1993
  • Application Integration Architectures Workshop. Craig Thompson, Bob Hodges (organizers). 1993.
  • A Model for University-Industry Collaborative R&D. Gil Hansen, William Wulf. In conference notebook: IFIP Working Conference on Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 10-13, 1993.
• 1992
  • Architecture of an Open Object-Oriented Database Management System. David Wells, Jose Blakeley, Craig Thompson. IEEE Computer, October, 1992.
  • Fido: a Cache that Learns to Fetch. Mark Palmer and Stanley Zdonik. Proceedings of 6th Very Large Databases Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 1992.
  • Object Services Architecture. Craig Thompson (co-author and editor). Object Services Task Force, Object Management Group, 1992.
• 1991
  • Reference Model on Object Data Management. Craig Thompson (co-author and editor). OODB Task Group, Database Systems Study Group, ANSI X3/SPARC, 1991.
• 1990
  • Object Management Architecture (OMA) Reference Model. Craig Thompson (co-author). Object Management Architecture Guide, Object Management Group, 1990.

Standards

• OMG Agent Working Group, Craig Thompson (Co-chair), 1998-present
  • Mission Statement, Craig Thompson, 1998
  • OMG-FIPA Liaison, Craig Thompson, 1999
  • Agent Technology Green Paper - contributed, Craig Thompson, 1998
    • Agent Glossary, Craig Thompson, 1998
  • Agent Technology RFI, Craig Thompson, 1998
    • responses to the Agent Technology RFI- contributed a response, Craig Thompson, 1998
• OMG Internet Special Interest Group, Craig Thompson (Co-chair), 1995-present
  • ISIG Mission Statement, Craig Thompson, 1995
  • Minutes of ISIG Meetings- also includes minutes of ISIG Working Groups: Agents, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Web/OMA Integration Architectures, and Object Tranfer and Manipulation
  • Final Recommendations to OMG from ISIG related to Internet Service Architecture RFI, Craig Thompson, March 1997
  • Response from OBJS to the OMG Internet Services Architecture RFI, Craig Thompson, October 1996
  • OMG Internet Services Architecture Request For Information, Craig Thompson, May 1996
• NCITS H7 (formerly X3H7) Object Model Features Matrix, Frank Manola (Editor), June 1997.
  • Covers: OODBTG Reference Model, OMG Core Object Model, OMG CORBA IDL, ODMG, EXPRESS, Open Distributed Processing (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG7), Management Information Model (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG4), SQL3 (H2), Matisse, C++ (J16), OO COBOL (J4), Smalltalk (J20), Eiffel, Emerald, Cecil, SELF, System Object Model (SOM), OLE Component Object Model, Analysis and Design Methods

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