Workshop Schedule

The workshop will take place all day Sunday, 15 October 1995. The exact room number and hotel will be announced shortly.

9:00 Organization administrivia, author introductions, opening comments
9:30 Entire group reviews the following three patterns using the writers workshop format:
- Composite Messages: A Structural Pattern for Communication between Components Aamod Sane and Roy Campbell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- The Broker Architectural Framework by Michael Stal, SIEMENS AG Corporate Research & Development.
- Object Group: an Object Behavioral Pattern for Fault-Tolerance and Group Communication in Distributed Systems by Silvano Maffeis, Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University.
12:15 Lunch

After lunch, we will split into three groups and review the following papers in parallel:

Group One (leader: Dennis Kafura)
- Using Replication for Distribution: Patterns for Efficient Updating by Charles Weir, Object Designers Ltd.
- Warden: A Pattern for Object Distribution by Fernando Das Neves and Alejandra Garrido, LIFIA, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Recoverable Distributor: A Design Pattern for Fault-Tolerant Sharing in Distributed Computing Nayeem Islam and Murphy Devarokonda, IBM T. J. Watson Labs.
- Managing Continuous Data Feed with Subscriber/Publisher Pattern Raman Kannan (kannan@moncol.monmouth.edu), Monmouth University
Group Two (leader: Greg Lavender)
- Design Patterns for Binding in Distributed Systems Steve Crane, Jeff Magee, Nat Pryce, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
- The Pipeline Design Pattern Gabe Beged-Dov et al., Rogue Wave
- Reference Indirection Chris Tarr, ObjectSpace (this paper does print, though it doesn't seem to render itself correctly within GNU ghostview!).
Group Three (leader: Thread-Specific Storage: A Pattern for Reducing Locking Overhead in Concurrent Programs by Tim Harrison and Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University, St. Louis.
Serialization Pattern by Antonio Rito Silva, INESC/IST Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Simple Buffered Collection and Buffered Iterator Patterns by Phil Brooks, Mentor Graphics Corporation.
Private Thread: A Software Pattern for the Implementation of Autonomic Object Behavior John Gilbert, Objective Software