Distributed Systems Engineering, Volume 6

Volume 6, Number 1, March 1999

• Nigel Davies, Kerry Raymond, Gordon S. Blair:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: Selected papers from Middleware'98: The IFIP International Conference on Distributed Systems - Platforms and Open Distributed Processing. 1-2
  
• Bruno Dumant, François Horn, Frédéric Dang Tran, Jean-Bernard Stefani:
  Jonathan: an open distributed processing environment in Java. 3-12
  
• Sai-Lai Lo, Steve Pope:
  The implementation of a high-performance ORB over multiple network transports. 13-22
  
• Yatin Chawathe, Eric A. Brewer:
  System support for scalable and fault tolerant Internet services. 23-33
  
• Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Ihor Kuz, Henk J. Sips:
  A scalable middleware solution for advanced wide-area Web services. 34-42
  
• Pei Cao, Jin Zhang, Kevin Beach:
  Active Cache: caching dynamic contents on the Web. 43-50
  
• Richard Hayton, Michael Bursell, Douglas I. Donaldson, W. Harwood, Andrew Herbert:
  Mobile Java objects. 51-
  

Volume 6, Number 2, June 1999

• Mustaque Ahamad, Michel Raynal, Gérard Thia-Kime:
  An adaptive architecture for causally consistent distributed services. 63-70
  
• Roberto Baldoni, Roberto Beraldi, Roy Friedman, Robbert van Renesse:
  The hierarchical daisy architecture for causal delivery. 71-81
  
• Nicole Dunlop, Jadwiga Indulska, Kerry Raymond:
  CORBA and RM-ODP: parallel or divergent? 82-
  

Volume 6, Number 3, September 1999

• Christof Fetzer:
  Guest Editor's Introduction: Special section on dependable distributed systems. 93-94
  
• Michel Raynal, Frederic Tronel:
  Group membership failure detection: a simple protocol and its probabilistic analysis. 95-102
  
• Matti A. Hiltunen, Vijaykumar Immanuel, Richard D. Schlichting:
  Supporting customized failure models for distributed software. 103-111
  
• Michael A. Iverson, Füsun Özgüner:
  Hierarchical, competitive scheduling of multiple DAGs in a dynamic heterogeneous environment. 112-
  

Volume 6, Number 4, December 1999

• Jackie Silcock, Andrzej M. Goscinski:
  A comprehensive distributed shared memory system that is easy to use and program. 121-128
  
• Anne-Louise Burness, Richard Titmuss, Caroline Lebre, Katie Brown, Alan Brookland:
  Scalability evaluation of a distributed agent system. 129-134
  
• Andrea Zisman, Jeff Kramer:
  An approach to interoperation between autonomous database systems. 135-