Gio, can you act as moderator for session III-4 How do these fit in? Craig

III-4 How do these fit in

Moderator: Gio Wiederhold, Stanford

Papers
paper037.ps - Aloysius Mok, The Objectization Problem - What It Is and What Can be Done About It, Department of Computer Science,
University of Texas at Austin

Topics - Few position papers covered these topics directly but they are challenging and we'll need to understand them to fully understand architectures and component technology.

views - different views of views: DBMS views, different views or abstractions of an architecture, multiple interfaces

managing inconsistency - how can systems operate with data that is incomplete, inconsistent, or of bounded accuracy; how can you make use of and propagate such information while keeping track of information pedigree and quality? are there architectural patterns for adding this ability to a system?

optimization versus modularity - there is a tradeoff, how can we have the best of both worlds

relation of wire protocols, APIs and grammars - IETF favors protocols, OMG APIs. What is the relationship between APIs and protocols? when should you use one and when the other?

agents - if we view objects as degenerate agents that are less mobile, less intelligent, and less autonomous and agents needing similar infrastructure for security, replication, and the ilities, then can that point of view help unify the object and agent technical stories, or is there good reason to keep them separate?

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Craig W. Thompson
Object Services and Consulting, Inc.
2725 Deep Valley Trail, Plano, TX 75023
thompson@objs.com, http://www.objs.com, 972-379-3320

Potential Session Moderators and In-Session Paper Presenters

We've tentatively selected all of you addressed by this email as either breakout session moderators or in-session paper presenters. A version of the workshop program with these assignments is at: (not intended for general public view quite yet so don't broadcast URL) Search for your name in the program. Here are the responsibilities:

Moderators - you are selected because you have a reasonable understanding of the kind of material in this session and can guide the dialog to topics you believe are important while being sensitive to the interests of other session participants. Your responsibilities will be to select a scribe in the audience if we have not preselected one for you, to provide a 5-10 minute preable either before of after session presenters to get the session dialog started, then guide the dialog as needed -- often it will guide itself. Finally you will be responsible to provide a summary of the session in the plenary session immediately following the breakout. You and/or the scribe are responsible for the session writeup.
In-session Paper Presenters - your paper is selected for this session because some aspects of it are related in some way. We are offering you 5-10 minutes to give an organized presentation of your ideas relevant to this session. Please select ideas from your position paper or from your recent experience to the extent that they are useful in providing depth for the session discussions to follow.

As mentioned above, a scribe will take notes during the session and be responsible for getting a well-written 1-3 page session summary to thompson@objs.com by January 16, 1998 for the workshop report. Pre-selected scribes will volunteer themselves at the beginning of a session or the moderator will designate someone they believe will do a good write-up or will ask for volunteers.

Please confirm by email to thompson@objs.com that you will be willing to act in these roles. Thank you in advance for taking on these responsibilities.

Regards, Craig Thompson

PS the assignments are more the work of Ted Linden and myself than the whole program committee -- if we have miscast you, let me know and we'll try to find another "volunteer."

-- Craig W. Thompson
Object Services and Consulting, Inc.
2725 Deep Valley Trail, Plano, TX 75023

thompson@objs.com, http://www.objs.com, 972-379-3320