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Session 1: Nomadic computing and reconciliation
Chair: Eric Jul
Application-independent reconciliation for nomadic applications
Marc Shapiro, Antony Rowstron, Anne-Marie Kermarrec
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Panasync: Dependency tracking among file copies
Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Carlos Baquero, Victor Fonte
7
Context-Aware Multimedia Computing in the Intelligence Hospital
Scott Mitchel, Mark Spiteri, John Bates, George Couloris
13
Session 2: OS Architecture I
Chair: Andrew Herbert
Towards Robust OSes for Appliances
Gilles Muller, Charles Consel, Renaud Marlet, Luciano Barreto,
Fabrice Mérillon, Laurent Réveillère
19
Multiprocessing and Portability for PDAs
Grzegorz Czajkowski
25
Session 3: Energy-Aware OS’s
Chair: Jochen Liedtke
Every Joule is Precious: The Case for Revisiting Operating System
Design for Energy Efficiency
Amin Vahdat, Alvin Lebeck, Carla Ellis
31
The Benefits of Event-Driven Energy Accounting in Power-Sensitive Systems
Frank Bellosa
37
Tetherless Computing – The R2 Low-Power Messaging and Rendezvous Layer
J.N. Weatherall
43
Providing an Embedded Software Environment for Wireless PDAs
Valérie Issarny, Michel Banâtre, Frédéric Weis, Gilbert Cabillic,
Paul Couderc, Teresa Higuera, Frédéric Parain
49
Session 4: Naming and mobility
Chair: Marc Shapiro
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Supporting effective caching in a wide-area distributed location service
Aline Baggio, Gerco Ballintijn, Maarten can Steen
55
CarNet: A Scalable Ad Hoc Wireless Network System
Robert Morris, John Jannotti, Frans Kaashoek, Jinyang Li, Douglas Decouto
61
Geographical and Organisational Locality in Active Environments
Mark Wharton
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Session 5: Distributed Storage
Chair: Satya
CryptoCache: A Secure Sharable File Cache for Roaming Users
Christian Jensen
73
Deferring Trust in Fluid Replication
Brian Noble, Ben Fleis
79
Let's put NetApp and CacheFlow out of business!
Eran Grabber, Elizabeth Shriver
85
Session 6: Pannel
Theme: Middleware – is it a good idea?
Session 7: OS Architecture II
Chair: Paulo Guedes
Congestion Prices as Feedback Signals: An Approach to QoS Management
Rolf Neugebauer
91
Increasing Relevance of Memory Hardware Errors – A Case for
Recoverable Programming Models
Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, James Shau, Guangrui Fu, Alberto Munoz
97
Easing the management of data-parallel systems via adaptation
David Petrou, Khalil Amiri, Gregory Ganger, Garth Gibson
103
The SawMill Multiserver Approach
Alain Gefflaut, Trent Jaeger, Yoonho Park, Jochen Liedtke,
Kevin Elphinstone, Volkmar Uhlig, Jonathon Tidswell, Luke Deller, Lars Reuther
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Session 8: Breakout session
Theme: What are the next big challenges for the OS?
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New Channels, Old Concerns: Scalable and Reliable Datamination
Colin Allison, Duncan McPherson, Dirk Husemann
115
Porting Multithreading Libraries to an Exokernel System
Ernest Artiaga, Albert Serra, Marisa Gil
121
Proximate interactions of wireless appliances
Michel Banâtre, Paul Couderc, Jean-Marc Menaud, Frédéric Weis
127
Trust and Confidence in Open Systems: Does Security harmonize with Mobility?
Uwe Baumgarten, Claudia Eckert, and Harald Görl
133
An Algorithm for Stabilising Multiple Stores
Ewa Z. Bern, John Rosenberg
139
On Architecture Transparency in Operating Systems
Danilo Beuche, Antônio Augusto Frölich, Reinhard Meyer,
Holger Papajewski, Friedrich Schön, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat,
Olaf Spinczyk, Ute Spinczyk
147
Research Issues in Developing a Platforn for Spatial-Aware Applications
Peter Coschurba, Uwe Kubach, Alexander Leonhardi
153
System Support for Smart Cars: Requirements and Research Directions
Raymond Cunningham and Vinny Cahill
159
Position Paper: The Role of Platforms and Operating Systems in
Supporting Home Networks
Nigel Davies and Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy
165
Increasing Appliance Autonomy using Energy-Aware Scheduling
of Java Multimedia Applications
Frédéric Parain, Gilbert Cabillic, Michel Bânatre, Teresa Higuera,
Valerie Issarny, Jean-Philippe Lesot
171
A System Architecture for Pervasive Computing
Robert Grimm, Tom Anderson, Brian Bershad, and David Wetherall
177
The Data Management Problem in Post-PC Devices and a Solution
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Randy H. Katz
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Synchronous IPC over Transparent Monitors
Trent Jaeger, Jonathon E. Tidswell, Alain Gefflaut, Yoonho Park,
Kevin J. Elphinstone, Jochen Liedtke
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Towards a real-world wide web
Tim Kindberg, John Barton
195
Decomposition of Preemptive Scheduling in the Go!
Component-Based Operating System
Greg Law and Julie McCann
201
Preliminary Thoughts On Memory-Bus Scheduling
Jochen Liedtke, Marcus Völp, Kevin Elphinstone
207
Building Appliances out of Components using Pebble
Kostas Magoutis, José Carlos Brustoloni, Eran Gabber,
Wee Teck Ng, and Avi Silberschatz
211
Smart Cards: A System Support for Service Accessibility from
Heterogeneous Devices
Raphaël Marvie, Marie-Claude Pelligrini, Olivier Potonniée
217
Balancing configurability and efficiency in network support tools
Hugo Miranda, Luis Rodrigues
223
Gaia: Enabling Active Spaces
Manuel Roman, Roy H. Campbell
229
Distributing Processing without DPEs: Design Considerations
for Public Computing Platforms
Timothy Roscoe, Bryan Lyles
235
Commons: resource sharing and protection in mobile appliance OS
Tetsuya Saito, Tatsuya Hagino
241
Caching Trust Rather Than Content
M. Satyanarayanan
245
Distributed Object Invocation in OBIWAN
Luís Veiga, João Garcia, João Silva, Paulo Ferreira
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