Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16-20, 2003, Proceedings

Next—generation distributed applications and systems are increasingly developed using middleware. This dependency poses hard R&D challenges, including — tency hiding, masking partial failure, information assurance and security, legacy integration, dynamic service partitioning and load balancing, and end—to—end quality of service specification and enforcement. To address these challenges, researchers and practitioners must discover and validate techniques, patterns, and optimizations for mid...