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While middleware technologies, such
as CORBA, EJB and DCOM, are gaining adoption is most application domains,
there is still some reluctance in deploying middleware in mission-critical
systems with high dependability requirements. Recognizing the need for dependable
middleware, several research, industrial and standardization efforts have
focussed independently on specific pieces of this dependability puzzle,
but have not collectively attempted to solve the entire puzzle. One specific
objective of the one-day Workshop on Dependable Middleware-Based Systems
(WDMS 2002) is to bring together the leading researchers and practitioners
(and therefore, the pieces of the puzzle) in this area, to discuss their
insights on dependable middleware, along with the open issues and the challenges
that they still face. To this end, some of the presentations at WDMS 2002
will cover practical experiences with, and lessons learned in using and
testing, dependable middleware in the field; yet other presentations will
uncover novel research ideas that are on the cutting edge in the design
and implementation of dependable middleware. Because there is an equally increasing need for middleware-based systems to exhibit, in addition to dependability, many other "-ilities" (such as survivability, adaptability, scalability, availability, mobility, security, real-time, etc.), another objective of this Workshop is to look at the composition of various other interesting "-ilities" with dependability. Some of the presentations will be aimed specifically at discussing the marriages of real-time with dependability, live upgrades with dependability, etc. We expect that future research on reliable middleware will be founded on some of the ideas that will be presented at this Workshop, and those that will inevitably arise from the discussions that follow. In keeping with the true open spirit of a Workshop, WDMS 2002 is intended to serve as a forum for fostering free-spirited technical exchanges and healthy debate. Practitioners from industry and researchers from academia will present their latest practices, ideas, technologies, standards and systems for building dependable middleware-based applications. These presentations will set the stage for the Workshop participants to explore, collectively, ways of making today's middleware technologies more robust, and to investigate the enhancement of existing dependable middleware with other "-ilities". |
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