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Gul Agha From the Editor-in-Chief: Welcome to
Concurrency! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--4
Argy Krikelis Multimedia --- an arena for the
culmination of parallel computing . . . 6--8
Sara Reese Hedberg Democracy online: the White House's
netcasts and town meetings . . . . . . . 9--12
Dennis Taylor Workstation Cluster Is All Show . . . . 13--15
T. Todd Elvins Render Brokering for Volume
Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--25
Susan Flynn Hummel and
Doug Kimelman and
Edith Schonberg and
Marsha Tennenhouse and
Dror Zernik Using Program Visualization for Tuning
Parallel-Loop Scheduling . . . . . . . . 26--40
Michele Colajanni and
Michele Cermele DAME: An Environment for Preserving the
Efficiency of Data-Parallel Computations
on Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . 41--55
Azer Bestavros WWW Traffic Reduction and Load Balancing
through Server-Based Caching . . . . . . 56--67
Jihong Kim and
Yongmin Kim Performance Analysis and Tuning for a
Single-Chip Multiprocessor DSP . . . . . 68--79
Michael Pernice Book Review: \em MPI: The Complete
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Marcin Paprzycki Book Review: \em Parallel Computers:
Theory and Practice . . . . . . . . . . 81--82
Tomasz Szmuc Book Review: \em A decade of
concurrency: reflections and
perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Janusz Zalewski Book Review: \em Pthreads Programming 85--86
Janusz Zalewski Book Reviews: Three Books on Distributed
and Reactive Systems: \em Time and
Probability in Formal Design of
Distributed Systems; \em Interacting
Processes: A Multiparty Approach to
Coordinated; \em Temporal Verification
of Reactive Systems . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Dieter K. Hammer and
Judi Romijn Global Broadcast: Bridging academia and
industry --- the IPA Workshop on
Embedded Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 91--97
Anonymous From the Editors: Concurrency's broader
coverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Workshop on
Parallel Processing and Multimedia: a
new research forum . . . . . . . . . . . 5--7
Paul Ammann and
Sushil Jajodia Distributed Databases: Semantics-based
transaction processing: satisfying
conflicting objectives . . . . . . . . . 8--10
David Clark Industry Spotlight: No nukes is good
news for supercomputers [nuclear weapons
simulation] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--12
Steve Chapin and
Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe Guest Editors' Introduction:
Multiprocessor operating systems:
harnessing the power . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Jörg Cordsen and
Thomas Garnatz and
Michael Sander and
Anne Gerischer and
Marco Dimas Gubitoso and
Ute Haack and
Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat Vote for Peace: Implementation and
performance of a parallel operating
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--27
Koen Langendoen and
Raoul Bhoedjang and
Henri Bal Models for Asynchronous Message Handling 28--38
Dejan S. Miloji\vci\'c and
Alan Langerman and
David L. Black and
Michelle Dominijanni and
Randall W. Dean and
Steven J. Sears Concurrency: a Case Study in Remote
Tasking and Distributed IPC in Mach . . 39--49
Golden G. Richard III and
Mukesh Singhal Complete Process Recovery: Using vector
time to handle multiple failures in
distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . 50--59
Scott Pakin and
Vijay Karamcheti and
Andrew A. Chien Fast Messages: Efficient, portable
communication for workstation clusters
and MPPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--73
Shahid H. Bokhari and
David M. Nicol Balancing Contention and Synchronization
on the Intel Paragon . . . . . . . . . . 74--83
Arthur B. (Barney) Maccabe Benchmarking Multiprocessor OS Progress 84--85
Janusz Zalewski Book Reviews: Two books on distributed
real-time systems: \em Distributed
Real-Time Systems: Monitoring,
Visualization, Debugging and Analysis,
\em Knowledge-Based Software Development
for Real-Time Distributed Systems . . . 86--87
Michael Mikolajczak Book Review: \em Designing And Building
Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools
For Parallel Software Engineering . . . 88--90
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--90
David Kahaner Global Broadcast: Taiwan's National
Center For High-Performance Computing 91--93
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 94--97
Gul Agha From the Editor-in-Chief: The emerging
tapestry of software engineering . . . . 2--4
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Multimedia
processing architectures . . . . . . . . 5--7
David Clark Interview: Bluer than blue: how IBM
managed it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--11
Ian Gorton and
Innes E. Jelly Guest Editors Introduction: Software
Engineering for Parallel and Distributed
Systems: Challenges and Opportunities 12--15
Innes E. Jelly and
Ian Gorton Virtual Roundtable: Software engineering
for parallel and distributed systems . . 16--16
Helmar Burkhart Virtual Roundtable: High-Performance
Services \`a La Carte . . . . . . . . . 16--17
Karsten M. Decker Virtual Roundtable: Matching User
Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Alan Fekete and
John M. Potter Virtual Roundtable: Abstractions in the
Development of Distributed Applications 19--20
Hassan Gomaa Virtual Roundtable: Software Design
Methods for Distributed Applications . . 20--20
Jeffrey Kramer Virtual Roundtable: Distributed Software
Architectures: a Structural Framework
for Constructing and Reasoning about
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Douglas C. Schmidt Virtual Roundtable: Meeting the
Challenges of Concurrent Software . . . 23--26
John A. Stankovic Virtual Roundtable: Real-Time Global
Virtual Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Frank Heinze and
Lorenz Schäfers and
Christian Scheidler and
Wolfgang Obelöer Trapper: Eliminating Performance
Bottlenecks in a Parallel Embedded
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--37
Daron G. Green and
Adrian Colbrook and
Chris J. Scott and
Mike Surridge HPCN Tools: a European Perspective . . . 38--43
Naoshi Uchihira and
Shinichi Honiden and
Toshibumi Seki Hypersequential Programming: a New Way
to Develop Concurrent Programs . . . . . 44--54
Ian A. Coutts and
John M. Edwards Model-Driven Distributed Systems . . . . 55--63
Peter Luksch and
Ursula Maier and
Sabine Rathmayer and
Matthias Weidmann and
Friedemann Unger Sempa: Software Engineering for Parallel
Scientific Computing . . . . . . . . . . 64--72
Marcin Paprzycki Book Review: \em An Introduction To
High-performance Scientific Computing 73--74
N. Ranganatban Book Review: \em Parallel And
Distributed Computing Handbook . . . . . 74--75
P. Stpiczynski Book Review: \em Local Area Networks: a
Client/server Approach . . . . . . . . . 75--76
Sebastian Anita Book Review: \em Security in Distributed
Computing: Did You Lock the Door? . . . 76--77
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--77
Anonymous News: American, German supercomputers
get cozy; Lung and weather simulations
win Computerworld Smithsonian Award;
State of the Field talks to feature HPC
experts; UCAR and HP to collaborate on
shared-memory systems; Intel Teraflops
is up and running; Tera sets
integer-sorting record . . . . . . . . . 78--80
Crystal Chweh New Products: Free C++ template library;
Templex sees vision of optical RAM;
Craft-y HPF compiler; Getting graphic;
Real-time vision processing . . . . . . 81--82
Anonymous 1996 Referees . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--83
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 84--89
Gul Agha From the Editor-in-Chief: Concurrent
Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Anonymous Article Summaries . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
Paul Ammann and
Sushil Jajodia Distributed Databases: Rethinking
integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--6
Klaus Stüben Global Broadcast: Europort-D: parallel
computing for European industry . . . . 7--10
David Clark Focus: Cyber-bricks and paradigms . . . 11--12, 17
Sara Reese Hedberg Spotlight: Robots playing soccer?
RoboCup poses a new set of challenges in
intelligent distributed computing . . . 13--17
Kathy J. Liszka and
John K. Antonio and
Howard Jay Siegel Problems with Interconnection Network
Comparisons: Is an Alligator Better Than
an Armadillo? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--28
Hesham El-Rewini and
Wolfang Halang Guest Editors' Introduction: The
Engineering of Complex Distributed
Computer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Rachid Guerraoui and
Beno\^\it Garbinato and
Karim R. Mazouni Garf: a Tool for Programming Reliable
Distributed Applications . . . . . . . . 32--39
Jenwei Hsieh and
David Hung-Chang -C. Du and
James A. MacDonald and
Joseph P. Thomas and
Jack Pugaczewski HIPPI over ATM Networks: Extending
Connections for Distributed Computing 40--53
Roberto Giorgi and
Cosimo Antonio Prete and
Gianpaolo Prina and
Luigi Ricciardi Trace Factory: Generating workloads for
trace-driven simulation of shared-bus
multiprocessors . . . . . . . . . . . . 54--68
Vijay K. Garg Methods for Observing Global Properties
in Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . 69--77
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications:
Application-centric parallel multimedia
software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79, 82
Anupam Joshi Book Reviews: Two books on distributed
computing: \em Object Oriented
Client/Server Internet Environments; \em
Application (Re)Engineering: Building
Web-Based Applications and Dealing with
Legacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Plamen Y. Yalamov and
Svetozar Margenov Book Reviews: Two books on MPI: \em
Parallel Programming with MPI; \em MPI:
The Complete Reference (2nd printing) 81--81
Zdzis\law W. Trzaska Book Review: \em Foundations of
Distributed Artificial Intelligence . . 82--82
Anonymous Annual Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83--86
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 87--89
Gul Agha From the Editor-in-Chief: Compositional
software architectures . . . . . . . . . 2--4
Mani Srivastava Mobile Computing: MobiCom '97 --- beyond
the third generation . . . . . . . . . . 5--8
David Clark Focus: OpenMP: a parallel standard for
the masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Sara Reese Hedberg Industry Spotlight: e-Christmas: seeding
Europe's electronic commerce market . . 13--15
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Parallel
multimedia servers . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Michael E. Palmer and
Brian Totty and
Stephen Taylor Ray Casting on Shared-Memory
Architectures: Memory-Hierarchy
Considerations in Volume Rendering . . . 20--35
Eileen Kraemer and
John T. Stasko Creating an Accurate Portrayal of
Concurrent Executions . . . . . . . . . 36--46
Orlando Loques and
Julius Leite and
Enrique Vinicio Carrera E. P-RIO: a Modular Parallel-Programming
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
Yong Gen Huang and
Howard Tillotson and
Martin Snaith Massively Parallel Computing Techniques
Might Improve Highway Maintenance . . . 58--67
Mark A. C. Gill and
Albert Y. Zomaya A Parallel Collision-Avoidance Algorithm
for Robot Manipulators . . . . . . . . . 68--78
Mitchell D. Theys and
Tracy D. Braun and
Howard Jay Siegel Conferences: Widespread acceptance of
general-purpose, large-scale parallel
machines: fact, future, or fantasy? . . 79--83
Jon B. Weissman Book Review: \em Building Secure and
Reliable Network Applications . . . . . 84--85
Reinhard Möller Book Review: \em On Concurrent
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Svetozar Margenov Book Review: \em An Introduction to
Distributed Algorithms . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Roman Trobec Book Review: \em Parallel Methods for
VLSI Layout Design . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous New Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88--88
Asian Technology Information Project Global Broadcast: CP-PACS: a look at
Japanese supercomputing . . . . . . . . 89--91
Crystal Chweh New Products: T3E-1200 outshines its
older siblings; Data Migration Facility
ports to Irix; Voyager 2.0 blends Corba
and Java; Virtual flypaper; Labview
leads ActiveX lifestyle; Small space,
big storage; Java performs ScriptEase
act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous News: NCSA to create support center for
distributed applications;And you thought
El Niño was a problem; Access Para-Scope
from Concurrency's home page . . . . . . 94--94
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 95--97
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Managing
multimedia information with parallel
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--6
William H. Mangione-Smith Mobile Computing: ``Beauty depends on
size'' --- Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Shani Bergen Global Broadcast: Thierry van der Pyl
and European HPCN trends . . . . . . . . 11--12
David Clark Focus: ASCI Pathforward: to 30 Tflops
and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13--15
Jeffrey N. Callen Applications Spotlight: Distributed
control for unmanned vehicles . . . . . 16--20
Sushil Jajodia Distributed Databases: Interview: Amit
Sheth On Workflow Technology . . . . . . 21--23
Dennis Kafura and
Jean-Pierre Briot Guest Editors' Introduction: Actors and
Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--29
Hermann de Meer and
Jan-Peter Richter and
Antonio Puliafito and
Orazio Tomarchio Tunnel Agents for Enhanced Internet QoS 30--39
Diane T. Rover and
Abdul Waheed and
Matt W. Mutka and
Aleksandar M. Baki\'c Software Tools for Complex Distributed
Systems: Toward Integrated Tool
Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--54
David H. C. Du and
Tai-Sheng Chang and
Jenwei Hsieh and
Yuewei Wang and
Sangyup Shim Interface comparisons: SSA versus FC-AL 55--70
Karsten M. Decker and
Mark J. Johnson Application Specification and Software
Reuse in Parallel Scientific Computing 71--77
Beth Plale and
Greg Eisenhauer and
Karsten Schwan and
Jeremy Heiner and
Vernard Martin and
Jeffrey Vetter From Interactive Applications to
Distributed Laboratories . . . . . . . . 78--90
Amjad Umar Book Review: \em Second Generation
Client/Server Computing . . . . . . . . 91--91
Nelson Luis Passos Book Review: \em Pipelined And Parallel
Computer Architectures . . . . . . . . . 92--92
Reinhard Möller Book Review: \em Distributed Operating
Systems: Concepts and Design . . . . . . 93--94
Przemys\law Stpiczynski Book Review: \em Proceedings of the
Eighth SIAM Conference on Parallel
Processing for Scientific Computing . . 94--94
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 95--97
Gul Agha From the Editor-in-Chief:
Cross-fertilizing concurrent computing
disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--4
Jim Waldo Spotlight: Remote procedure calls and
Java Remote Method Invocation . . . . . 5--7
Yi-Min Wang and
Pi-Yu Emerald Chung Object-Oriented Applications:
Customization of distributed systems
using COM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--12
Matthew D. Jennings and
Thomas M. Conte Mobile Computing: Subword extensions for
video processing on mobile systems . . . 13--16
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications:
High-performance multimedia applications
and the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 17--19
Rocco Aversa and
Antonino Mazzeo and
Nicola Mazzocca and
Umberto Villano Heterogeneous System Performance
Prediction and Analysis Using PS . . . . 20--29
Murthy Devarakonda Guest Editor's Introduction: The
Practical Aspects of Object-Oriented
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--33
Christopher Small and
Margo I. Seltzer MiSFIT: Constructing Safe Extensible
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--41
Muhammad Kafil and
Ishfaq Ahmad Optimal Task Assignment in Heterogeneous
Distributed Computing Systems . . . . . 42--51
Neeran M. Karnik and
Anand R. Tripathi Design Issues in Mobile-Agent
Programming Systems . . . . . . . . . . 52--61
Sivarama P. Dandamudi Sensitivity Evaluation of Dynamic Load
Sharing in Distributed Systems . . . . . 62--72
Henri E. Bal and
Matthew Haines Approaches for Integrating Task and Data
Parallelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--84
Hilda van der Veen Book Review: \em High Performance
Computing: Challenges for Future Systems 85--86
Maria A. Cobb Book Reviews: Two Books on Corba: \em
CORBA Fundamentals and Programming; \em
CORBA Distributed Objects Using Orbix 86--87
Alexander Vazhenin Book Review: \em Advanced Computer
Architecture: A Design Space Approach 87--88
Andrzej Stachurski Book Review: \em Verification of
Sequential and Concurrent Programs . . . 88--88
Plamen Y. Yalamov Book Review: \em Concurrent Programming:
The Java Programming Language . . . . . 89--89
Mordechai Ben-Ari and
Alan Burns Education: Extreme interleavings . . . . 90--90
Brian J. d'Auriol Book Review: \em Parallel Computing
Using Optical Interconnections . . . . . 91--91
Gul Agha 1997 Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--93
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 94--96
Gul A. Agha From the Editor-in-Chief: Agent
technologies continue to grow . . . . . 2--4
William H. Mangione-Smith Mobile computing and smart spaces . . . 5--7
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Scalable
multimedia servers . . . . . . . . . . . 8--10
Doug Lea Object Oriented Applications: Patterns
and the democratization of concurrent
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Babek Hamidzadeh and
Yacine Atif Dynamic Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks,
by Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--25
Ted H. Kim and
Gerald J. Popek Frigate: a User-Extensible OO File
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--35
Harvey F. Silverman and
William R. Patterson III and
James L. Flanagan The Huge Microphone Array . . . . . . . 36--46
Jeffrey R. Carter and
Bo I. Sanden Practical Use of Ada 95's Concurrency
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--56
Yu-Chee Tseng and
Tony Tong-Ying Juang and
Ming-Chih Du Building a Multicasting Tree in a
High-Speed Network . . . . . . . . . . . 57--67
Marco Vanneschi Global Broadcast: PQE2000: HPC tools for
industrial applications . . . . . . . . 68--73
Jean-Pierre P. Briot Actors & Agents: Agents and concurrent
objects: Interview with Les Gasser . . . 74--77, 81
Thiab R. Taha Book Review: \em An Introduction to
Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 78--78
Mikhail P. Levin Book Review: \em Numerical Recipes In
Fortran 90: The Art Of Parallel
Scientific Computing . . . . . . . . . . 79--79
Daniel B. Szyld Book Review: \em Parallel Computation:
Models and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Amjad Umar Book Review: \em Distributed And
Parallel Computing . . . . . . . . . . . 80--81
Anonymous Index, Volume 6, 1998 . . . . . . . . . 82--85
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 86--88
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: Defining Our
Scope: The Computer Society's
``Systems'' Magazines . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Paul Ammann and
Sushil Jajodia Distributed Databases: Computer
Security, Fault Tolerance, and Software
Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--6
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Mobile
multimedia: shaping the Infoverse . . . 7--9
William H. Mangione-Smith Mobile Computing: MobiCom '98 . . . . . 10--11
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Trend Wars: Operating Systems --- Now
and In The Future . . . . . . . . . . . 12--21
Antonio Corradi and
Letizia Leonardi and
Franco Zambonelli Diffusive Load-Balancing Policies for
Dynamic Applications . . . . . . . . . . 22--31
Harvey F. Silverman and
William R. Patterson III and
James L. Flanagan The Huge Microphone Array, Part 2 . . . 32--47
Sivarama P. Dandamudi Reducing Hot-Spot Contention in
Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Systems . . 48--59
Kai Hwang and
Hai Jin and
Edward Chow and
Cho-Li Wang and
Zhiwei Xu Designing SSI Clusters with Hierarchical
Checkpointing and Single I/O Space . . . 60--69
Maarten van Steen and
Philip Homburg and
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Globe: a Wide-Area Distributed System 70--78
T. Roman and
J. S. Institute Book Review: \em Limits To Parallel
Computation: P-Completeness Theory . . . 79--79
Crystal Chweh News: Go distributed . . . . . . . . . . 80--82
Mitsuhisa Sato Global Broadcast: COMPaS: a PC-based SMP
cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82--86
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 87--88
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: Clusters, open
interoperability, and mobility . . . . . 2--3
Crystal Chweh and
John Stankovic and
Dennis Taylor News: Trafficmaster takes on gridlock;
New lab simulates the Internet; Apples
are the core of these clusters; Growing
their own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--9
David I. Lewin Focus: a changing climate for climate
modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--12
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications:
Location-dependent multimedia computing 13--15
David Clark Spotlight: Network nirvana and the
intelligent device . . . . . . . . . . . 16--19
Alan Jones Guest Editor's Introduction: Mobile
Computing to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--23
Dirk Husemann The Smart Card: Don't Leave Home Without
It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27
Vincent Messerli and
Oscar Figueiredo and
Benoit Gennart and
Roger D. Hersch Parallelizing I/O-Intensive Image Access
and Processing Applications . . . . . . 28--37
Peter D. V. van der Stok and
Erco Argante and
Ian Willers CoCa: a Parallelization Model for
High-Energy Physics . . . . . . . . . . 38--46
Samuel H. Russ and
Katina Reece and
Jonathan Robinson and
Brad Meyers and
Rajesh Rajan and
Laxman Rajagopalan and
Chun-Heong Tan Hector: An Agent-Based Architecture for
Dynamic Resource Management . . . . . . 47--55
Milan Jovanovic and
Veljko Milutinovic An Overview of Reflective Memory Systems 56--64
Yong Yan and
Xiaodong Zhang Performance: Profit-effective parallel
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--69
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Trend Wars: Middleware's role, today and
tomorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--80
Michaele E. Duncan Book Review: \em In Search of Clusters 81--81
Michelle Pal Book Review: \em Communication
Complexity and Parallel Computing . . . 81--83
H. Garraway Parallel Computer Architecture: a
Hardware/Software Approach . . . . . . . 83--84
Sushil Jajodia Distributed Databases: Data replication
gaining popularity . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
Jean Bacon 1998 Reviewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 88--90
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: Evolving
concepts for new applications . . . . . 2--3
Margaret Weatherford and
Keri Schreiner and
Jenny Ferrero and
Crystal Chweh News: Guide for all seasons: Lancaster's
wireless tourist information system;
Coins (and Billions) Back Malaysia's
MSC; Data Encryption: I'd like to solve
the puzzle!; Click to end world hunger 4--8
Sushil Jajodia Distributed databases: Turing Award
winner Jim Gray on the new millenium . . 9--10
John Charles Focus: UK Internet spawns anger and
innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Anand Tripathi Education: Keeping up with the
information technology revolution . . . 14--15
Santosh K. Shrivastava and
Stuart M. Wheater Guest Editors' Introduction:
Workflow-Management Systems . . . . . . 16--17
Amit P. Sheth and
Wil van der Aalst and
Ismailcem B. Arpinar Processes Driving the Networked Economy 18--31
Christoph Bussler Enterprise-Wide Workflow Management . . 32--43
Marc-Thomas T. Schmidt The evolution of workflow standards . . 44--52
Dirk Husemann and
Reto Hermann OpenCard: Talking to Your Smart Card . . 53--57
Chi-Chung Hui and
Samuel T. Chanson Improved Strategies for Dynamic Load
Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58--67
Zahia Guessoum and
Jean-Pierre -P. Briot From Active Objects to Autonomous Agents 68--76
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Challenges in
delivering multimedia content in mobile
environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Trend Wars: Mobile agent applications 80--90
Brian J. d'Auriol Book Review: \em Parallel computing
using optical interconnections . . . . . 91--92
Nelson Luiz Passos Book Review: \em iWarp --- anatomy of a
parallel computing system . . . . . . . 92--93
Ralph Duncan Book Review: \em Understanding Parallel
Supercomputing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 95--97
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: The new
millennium a brave new world? . . . . . 2--3
David Clark and
Vipin Kumar and
Gil Shif News: Supercomputing fashion: scalable
vectors, the new fall line; Mining
scientific datasets: Cluster computing:
Add processors, save money; New
computing complex construction contract
[Los Alamos National Laboratory]; IEEE
Technical Committee on Parallel
Processing; A smarter Department of
Defense; Grid community effort continues 4--8
Miodrag Potkonjak Mobile Computing: Low power and QoS . . 9--10
Albert Y. Zomaya and
Tarek El-Ghazawi and
Ophir Frieder Guest Editors' Introduction: Parallel
and Distributed Computing for Data
Mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11--13
Mohammed J. Zaki Parallel and Distributed Association
Mining: a Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--25
David Skillicorn Strategies for Parallel Data Mining . . 26--35
Michael Baentsch and
Peter Buhler and
Thomas Eirich and
Frank Höring and
Marcus Oestreicher JavaCard --- From Hype to Reality . . . 36--43
Sean Landis and
William Shapiro CORBA Naming-Service Evaluation . . . . 44--51
Roberto Beraldi and
Libero Nigro Distributed Simulation of Timed Petri
Nets: a Modular Approach Using Actors
and Time Warp . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52--62
Jeffrey Vetter and
Karsten Schwan Techniques for High-Performance
Computational Steering . . . . . . . . . 63--74
William Leinberger and
Vipin Kumar Global Broadcast: Information power
grid: The new frontier in parallel
computing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--84
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Mobile
multimedia considerations . . . . . . . 85--87
Andrzej Stachurski Book Review: \em Structured development
of parallel programs . . . . . . . . . . 88--89
Plamen Yalamov Book Review: \em Parallel Algorithms . . 89--90
Plamen Yalamov Book Review: \em Practical Parallel
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--91
Anonymous Index, Volume 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . 92--95
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 96--97
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: Expectations
and challenges in large-scale
distributed systems . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Behrooz Parhami and
Yong Yan and
Xiaodong Zhang Letter to the Editor: Speedup versus
profitup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--4
David Clark and
Keri Schreiner and
Jennifer Ferrero and
Dale Strok News: Blue Gene and the race toward
petaflops capacity; Embedded Java
development moves ahead; Putting
teraflops to the test; Corba 3.0 on the
way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5--10
Thomas Eickermann and
Wolfgang Frings and
Friedel Hossfeld and
Stefan Posse and
Gernot Goebbels Global Broadcast: Supercomputer-enhanced
functional MRI of the human brain . . . 11--13
Murthy Devarakonda Guest Editor's Introduction: Current
Developments in Object-Oriented Systems 14--15
Irfan Pyarali and
Carlos O'Ryan and
Douglas Schmidt and
Nanbor Wang and
Aniruddha S. Gokhale and
Vishal Kachroo Using Principle Patterns to Optimize
Real-Time ORBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--25
Fabio Kon and
Roy H. Campbell Dependence Management in Component-Based
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 26--36
Beniamino Di Martino and
Christoph W. Keßler Two Program Comprehension Tools for
Automatic Parallelization . . . . . . . 37--47
Pascal Felber and
Rachid Guerraoui Programming with Object Groups in CORBA 48--58
E. M. Sherratt and
C. W. Loftus Designing Distributed Services with SDL 59--66
Ishfaq Ahmad Cluster Computing: a glance at recent
events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Trend Wars: Internet technology . . . . 70--81
Daniel A. Menascé Education: a reference model for
designing an e-commerce curriculum . . . 82--85
Lalit M. Patnaik Book Review: \em High performance
cluster computing . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87
Jean Bacon Salute to 1999 Reviewers . . . . . . . . 87--88
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 88--89
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: DS Online:
Serving the distributed systems
community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Dick Price News: CAIDA helps train network
engineers, 109-bit cryptographic key
cracked, LosLobos--Linux supercluster 4--7
Peter G. Fairweather and
Andrew S. Gibbons Education: Distributed learning: Two
steps forward, one back? One forward,
two back? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8--9
Brett D. Fleisch and
Heiko Michel and
Sachin K. Shah and
Oliver E. Theel Fault Tolerance and Configurability in
DSM Coherence Protocols . . . . . . . . 10--21
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Guest Editor's Introduction: Agent
Systems and Applications . . . . . . . . 22--23
Nelson Minar and
Matthew Gray and
Oliver Roup and
Raffi Krikorian and
Pattie Maes Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking
Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--33
Elizabeth A. Kendall Role Modeling for Agent System Analysis,
Design, and Implementation . . . . . . . 34--41
Pawel T. Wojciechowski and
Peter Sewell Nomadic Pict: Language and
Infrastructure Design for Mobile Agents 42--52
Wolfgang Theilmann and
Kurt Rothermel Optimizing the Dissemination of Mobile
Agents for Distributed Information
Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--61
Tammo Spalink and
John H. Hartman and
Garth A. Gibson A Mobile Agent's Effects on File Service 62--69
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Trend Wars: Security and privacy . . . . 70--79
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Considerations
for a new generation of mobile
multimedia communication systems . . . . 80--82
Ishfaq Ahmad Cluster Computing: Gigantic clusters:
Where are they and what are they doing? 83--85
M. Paprzycki Book Review: \em Java distributed
computing is solid but not flawless . . 86--86
William F. Gilreath and
Benjamin R. Seyfarth Book Reviews: \em Java Distributed
Computing is solid but not flawless; \em
Elements of Network Protocol Design:
Network protocol textbook is an asset 86--87
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 88--90
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: The grand
opening of DS Online marks the closing
of Concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--3
Daniel R. Rehak and
Bill Blackmon and
Anne R. Humphreys and
Greg Goth News: The Virtual University: Developing
a dynamic learning management portal;
New air traffic control tools enable
automated coordination . . . . . . . . . 3--5
Jon B. Weissman Education: Grids in the classroom . . . 6--9
Ishfaq Ahmad Cluster Computing: Genetic programming
in clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--11, 13
Roman Wyrzykowski Book Review: \em Using Plapack: Parallel
Linear Algebra Package . . . . . . . . . 12--13
Veljko Milutinovic Guest Editor's Introduction: Caching in
Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 14--15
Stavros Harizopoulos and
Costas Harizakis and
Peter Triantafillou Hierarchical Caching and Prefetching for
Continuous Media Servers with Smart
Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--22
Craig Williams and
Paul F. Reynolds, Jr. and
Bronis R. de Supinski Delta Coherence Protocols . . . . . . . 23--29
Julio Sahuquillo and
Ana Pont Splitting the Data Cache: a Survey . . . 30--35
Aleksandar Milenkovic Achieving High Performance in Bus-Based
Shared-Memory Multiprocessors . . . . . 36--44
Juan-Carlos Cano and
Ana Pont and
Julio Sahuquillo and
José-Antonio Gil The Differences between Distributed
Shared Memory Caching and Proxy Caching 45--47
Zahir Tari and
Herry Hamidjaja and
Qi Tang Lin Cache Management in CORBA Distributed
Object Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--55
Jean-Marc Menaud and
Valérie Issarny and
Michel Banâtre A Scalable and Efficient Cooperative
System for Web Caches . . . . . . . . . 56--62
Paul Lu Implementing Scoped Behavior for
Flexible Distributed Data Sharing . . . 63--73
Gustavo Alonso and
Claus Hagen and
Divyakant Agrawal and
Amr El Abbadi and
C. Mohan Enhancing the Fault Tolerance of
Workflow Management Systems . . . . . . 74--81
Argy Krikelis Multimedia Applications: Enhancing
visual quality in mobile multimedia . . 82--84
Anonymous Calendar/Call for Papers . . . . . . . . 85--85
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c and
Craig Partridge and
John Crowcroft and
Lance Russell and
Jonathan Smith Trend Wars: Networking . . . . . . . . . 86--96
Jean Bacon From the Editor-in-Chief: The final
issue: a time to reflect . . . . . . . . 2--3
Jean Bacon Salute to 2000 Reviewers . . . . . . . . 3--3
Matt Bishop Education: Education in information
security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4--8
Ishfaq Ahmad Cluster Computing: Network computers:
The changing face of computing . . . . . 9--11
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee and
Steven K. Reinhardt and
Babak Falsafi and
Mike Litzkow and
Mark D. Hill and
David A. Wood and
Steven Huss-Lederman and
James R. Larus Wisconsin Wind Tunnel II: a Fast,
Portable Parallel Architecture Simulator 12--20
Ishfaq Ahmad and
Yu-Kwong Kwok and
Min-You Wu and
Wei Shu CASCH: a Tool for Computer-Aided
Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--33
Peter Thanisch Atomic Commit in Concurrent Computing 34--41
Greg Watson and
David Abramson Relative Debugging for Data-Parallel
Programs: a ZPL Case Study . . . . . . . 42--52
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c Guest Editor's Introduction: Applied
Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Antonella Di Stefano and
Corrado Santoro A Java Kernel for Embedded Systems in
Distributed Process Control . . . . . . 55--63
Robert Hundt HP Caliper: a Framework for Performance
Analysis Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--71
Christophe de Dinechin C++ Exception Handling . . . . . . . . . 72--79
Dejan Miloji\vci\'c and
Brian Lazara and
John Stankovic and
Wolfgang Schröder Preikschat and
Liviu Iftode and
Rodger Lea and
Bob Rau Trend Wars: Embedded Systems . . . . . . 80--90
Patrick Amestoy and
Xiaoye Li and
Fred Petry and
Marcin Paprzycki Book Reviews: Collection offers overview
of research on structured matrices: \em
High Performance Algorithms for
Structured Matrix Problems, Advances in
the Theory of Computation and
Computational Mathematics, Volume 2; A
comprehensive look at heterogeneous
multidatabases: \em Management of
Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database
Systems; New version not sufficiently
updated: \em Numerical Linear Algebra
for High-Performance Computers . . . . . 91--93
Anonymous Annual Index: Volume 8, 2000 . . . . . . 94--97