Active Middleware Services: From the Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on Active_Middleware Services

Preface. Workshop Organization. Program Committee. Part I: Active Middleware Services. Co-operative Adaptation Between End Points P. Reiher, et al. On Active Grid Middleware C.A. Lee. AMnet: Efficient Heterogeneous Group Communication Through Rapid Service Creation T. Harbaum, et al. Part II: Mobile Agents Services and Environments. CATALINA: A Smart Application Control and Management Environment S. Hariri, et al. Active Monitoring in Grid Environments Using Mobile Agent Technology O. Tomarchio, et al. A Cohesive, Secure Mechanism for Structuring Distributed Agent Populations in Managed Networks D.P.A. Greenwood. Enhanced ORB-based Active Networking H. Guo, Th. Becker. Part III: Active Networks. Enabling Active Networks Services on A Gigabit Routing Switch P. Wang, et al. Tamanoir: A High Performance Active Networks Framework J.-P. Gelas, L. Lefevre. Calibrating an Active Network Node Y. Carlinet, et al. Securing the Node of an Active Network Z. Liu, et al. Logistical Networking: Sharing More Than the Wires M. Beck, et al. Part IV: Active Resource Management. At-Speed Prototyping of PROTEAN Architecture D. Craig, et al. 2KQ: Resource-Aware Middleware for Active and Configurable Distributed Services D. Xu, et al. LGC: An Active Congestion Control Mechanism N. Pradhavalkar, et al. IITB-View: A Network Management System Using Mobile Agents H.N. Aravind, S.L. Mehndiratta. Part V: Active Environments and Applications. A Proposed Jini Infrastructure to Support a Java Message Passing Implementation M. Baker, B. Carpenter. Automating Component Integration in a Distributed Problem Solving Environment M. Li, et al. An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading and Scheduling on Computational Power Grids for Parameter Sweep Applications R. Buyya, et al. Author Index.