[NEW BOOK] Mobile Object Systems

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:


MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS:
Towards the Programmable Internet


Jan Vitek and Christian Tschudin Eds.
Second International Workshop, MOS'96
Linz, Austria, July 1996
Selected Presentations and Invited Papers
Springer-Verlag, LNCS 1222
April 1997




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TOPIC:


This book presents a collection of papers dealing with different
aspects of mobile computations. Mobile computations are computations
that are not bound to single locations, but may move at will to best
use the computer network's resources. In this view, the network
becomes a single, vast, programmable environment. Among computer
scientists, many feel that this approach will have a profound effect
on the way we design and implement distributed applications, and they
agree that we are witnessing a paradigm change. However, this new and
exciting paradigm requires advances, both theoretical and applied, in
fields such as programming languages (where we need a sound semantic
foundation and efficient implementations), operating systems and
software safety and security. Some of the first steps towards a
programmable Internet are documented here.




TABLE OF CONTENTS:


Introduction ..............................................................IX


Part I: Foundations


Mobile Computation (Luca Cardelli) ........................................3
Objectworld (Denis Tsichritzis) ...........................................7
Commentary on "Objectworld" (Denis Tsichritzis) ...........................23
Mobile Agents: Are They a Good Idea? (David Chess, Colin Harrison
      and Aaron Kershenbaum) .................................................25
Update (David Chess, Colin Harrison and Aaron Kershenbaum) ................46
A Note on Distributed Computing (Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath
      and Sam Kendall) .......................................................49
Afterword (Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath and Sam Kendall) .......................65
Instruction-Based Communications (Christian Tschudin) .....................67


Part II: Concepts


Analyzing Mobile Code Languages (Gianpaolo Cugola, Carlo Ghezzi,
      Gian Pietro Picco and Giovanni Vigna) ..................................93
Sumatra: A Language for Resource-Aware Mobile Programs (Anurag Acharya,
      M. Ranganathan and Joel Saltz) .........................................111
Migratory Applications (Krishna Bharat and Luca Cardelli) .................131
The Messenger Environment MO - A Condensed Description
      (Christian Tschudin) ...................................................149
Mobility and Persistence (Miguel Mira da Silva) ...........................157
Security and Communication in Mobile Object Systems (Jan Vitek,
      Manuel Serrano and Dimitri Thanos) .....................................177
Safe and Secure Execution Mechanisms for Mobile Objects (Kazuhiko Kato) ...201
Jada - Coordination and Communication for Java Agents (Paolo Ciancarini
      and Davide Rossi) ......................................................213


Part III: Implementation


Performance-Oriented Implementation Strategies for a Mobile Agent Language
      (Frederick Knabe) ......................................................229
Dynamic Linking for Mobile Programs (Anurag Acharya and Joel Saltz) .......245
Adaptive Compression of Syntax Trees and Iterative Dynamic Code
      Optimization: Two Basic Technologies for Mobile Object Systems
      (Michael Franz) ........................................................263
A Type-Based Implementation of a Language with Distributed Scope
      (Dominic Duggan) .......................................................277
Interaction of Java and Telescript Agents (Peter Domel) ...................295


Appendix
Glossary ..................................................................315
List of Authors ...........................................................317




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