OBJS Technical Reports & Publications 

Selected Recent Papers and Technical Reports -- also see OBJS bios

• 2002
• ProbeMeister: Distributed Runtime Software Instrumentation, Paul Pazandak and David Wells, accepted to USE 2002, Spain, June 2002
• 2000
• Characterizing the Agent Grid, Frank Manola and Craig Thompson, for:  Bradshaw's Handbook of Agent Technology, based on
• Characterizing Computer-Related Grid Concepts, Frank Manola, 12/98, revised 3/98
• Characterizing the Agent Grid, Craig Thompson, draft 11/98, revised 1/99
• 1999
• Agent Glossary, Craig Thompson et. al. for OMG Agent Technology Green Paper, see Agent WG homepage
• Agents for the Masses, Thompson, Bannon, Pazandak, and Vasudevan, invited paper, Agent 99 Workshop on Agent-Based High Performance Computing: Problem Solving Applications And Practical Deployment, Seattle, May 1 1999.
• Agility contract Technical Notes
• Agility Project Summary, Craig Thompson
• Strawman Agent Reference Architecture, Craig Thompson
• Best of Class Agent System Features, Paul Pazandak
• Agent System Comparison, Paul Pazandak
• Summary of Hadas, Sodabot, Software Dock, and VisitorBot, Venu Vasudevan
• Comparison of ACLs, Venu Vasudevan
• HLA and ACL, Mark Palmer
• Information Access Services, Craig Thompson
• Ontologies (and service trading), Venu Vasudevan
• Agent Standards, Frank Manola
• Jini Overview, Paul Pazandak
• Agent Bibliography, Gil Hansen
• Providing Systemic Properties (Ilities) and Quality of Service in Component-Based Systems, Frank Manola
• Flexible Common Schema Study, Frank Manola
• Survivability in Object Services Architectures (OSAs), DARPA contract, PI: David Wells, May 1999
• Intermediary Architecture.  Craig Thompson et al, ACM Computing Surveys,  Special Issue on Intelligent Collaboration and Visualization, March 1999.
• WebTrader: Discovery and Programmed Access to Web-Based Services, Venu Vasudevan and Tom Bannon, accepted for poster session at The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, on May 11-14, 1999.  Short versions: WebTrader and WebTrader,
• The Interceptor Architecture: A Scalable Java-based Architecture to Dynamically Extend Web Applications and Support Web Objects, Paul Pazandak.
• On Web Annotation: Promises and Pitfalls of Web Infrastructure. Venu Vasudevan and Mark Palmer, 32nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, January 1999.
• Everything is Alive, Craig Thompson, January 1999.
• Technologies for a Web Object Model.  Frank Manola, to appear as lead article in the Special Issue on Web Object Models, IEEE Internet Computing,  Jan/Feb 1999.
• 1998
• Scaling Object Services Architectures to the Internet, Final Report. DARPA contract, PI:  Craig Thompson, September, 1998.
• Intermediary Architecture.  Craig Thompson September, 1998.
• Intermediary Architecture Interceptor.  Paul Pazandak, September, 1998.
• Web Object Model.  Frank Manola, September, 1998.
• Annotation Service.  Venu Vasudevan and Mark Palmer, September, 1998.
• Personal Network Performance Monitor Service. Gil Hansen, September, 1998.
• NLI Query Interface.  Gli Hansen, September, 1998.
• Trader Service.  Venu Vasudevan and Tom Bannon, September, 1998.
• WebTrader, Tom Bannon, September, 1998
• Augmenting OMG Traders to handle Service Composition. Venu Vasudevan, September 1998
• Some Web Object Model Construction Technologies.  Frank Manola, September, 1998.
• Towards a Richer Web Object Model.  Frank Manola, SIGMOD Record, Volume 27, Number 1, March 1998
• Towards a Web Object Model.  Frank Manola, January 1998.
• OMG-DARPA Workshop on Compositional Architectures.  Craig Thompson (co-organizer).  Monterey, January 6-8, 1998.
• Workshop Report.  Craig Thompson (editor), published in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (SEN).
• Intermediary Architecture:  Interposing middleware services and ilities between web client and server.  Craig Thompson et. al.
• A Reference Model for Trader-Based Distributed Systems Architectures.  Venu Vasudevan
• Survivability in Object Services Architectures.  David Wells and David Langworthy
• 1997
• OMG OMA NG:  Towards the Next Generation OMG Object Management Architecture.  Presented at OMG.  Craig Thompson (co-author).  October, 1997.
• Evaluating Object Database Management System Functionality to Support Multimedia.  Paul Pazandak.  IEEE Multimedia Journal Special Issue on Multimedia Database Management Systems.  Fall 1997.
• Web Programming Languages.  Steve Ford, David Wells, and Nancy Wells. WebApps Magazine.  Vol. 1, No. 1, January/February 1997.  Cover story.
• Satellite Network Management.  Venu Vasudevan. 5^th International Conference On Telecommunications.  January 1997.  Won Best Paper Award at Object World.
• Internet Tools Survey, David Wells, Craig Thompson, 1996-1997
• Visions: Application and Technology Drivers, Craig Thompson, Frank Manola, January 1997
• Virtual Office
• Virtual Office White Paper, Craig Thompson, Shaun Joseph, January 1997
• Enabling Technology for Virtual Office Applications, Frank Manola, January 1997
• Electronic Support for Collaboration & Decision Making in OBJS, David Wells, Dec 1996
• Initial Use of COTS Tools in the OBJS Virtual Office, Frank Manola, May 1997
• Virtual Office Scenarios, Frank Manola, January 1997
• Objects and the Internet
• Componentware Glossary, Craig Thompson, Frank Manola, January 1997
• Internet Engineering Task Force Overview, Craig Thompson, April 1996
• Object Management Group Overview, Craig Thompson, April 1996
• Object Models, Craig Thompson, April 1996
• Requirements for OO + Web Integration, Craig Thompson, January 1997
• Current Web Architecture, Craig Thompson, Gil Hansen, January 1997
• Web Programming Languages, Steve Ford, David Wells, Nancy Wells, January 1997
• Web + Object Integration, Gil Hansen, Craig Thompson, January 1997 (draft)
• Web + DBMS Integration, Craig Thompson, Paul Pazandak, January 1997
• Semantic File Systems, Paul Pazandak, Venu Vesudevan, January 1997
• Wrappers, David Wells, April 1996
• Quality of Service, Gil Hansen, January 1997
• Managing and Using Information
• Hypermedia Systems and WWW Browsers, David Wells, April 1996
• HTML Authoring Tools, David Wells, April 1996
• Searching and Indexing, David Wells, Ansu Kurien, April 1996
• Groupware & Collaboration Support, David Wells, Ansu Kurien, April 1996
• Video Conferencing, Steve Ford, April 1996
• Security
• Authentication, David Wells, April 1996
• Encryption, David Wells, April 1996
• Virtual Private Networks, Steve Ford, January 1997
• 1996
• Transforming the Database System into an Open Service Concept.  Frank Manola.  December 1996 (requires ACM account to read).
• Workshop at OOPSLA'96: Toward the integration of WWW and Distributed Object Technology.  Craig Thompson (co-organizer).  June 1996.  Position papers.
• Joint W3C-OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects and Mobile Code.  Craig Thompson (co-organizer). Boston, June 24-25, 1996.
• 1995
• NIIIP Reference Architecture: Concepts and Guidelines.  Craig Thompson (co-author).  DARPA TRP National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium, 1995.
• Reference Architecture for the Intelligent Integration of Information.  Craig Thompson (co-author).  DARPA ISO, 1995.
• 1993
• Application Integration Architectures Workshop.  Craig Thompson, Bob Hodges (organizers).  1993.
• A Model for University-Industry Collaborative R&D.  Gil Hansen, William Wulf.  In conference notebook: IFIP Working Conference on Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 10-13, 1993.
• 1992
• Architecture of an Open Object-Oriented Database Management System.  David Wells, Jose Blakeley, Craig Thompson.  IEEE Computer, October, 1992.
• Fido: a Cache that Learns to Fetch.  Mark Palmer and Stanley Zdonik.  Proceedings of 6th Very Large Databases Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 1992.
• Object Services Architecture.  Craig Thompson (co-author and editor).  Object Services Task Force, Object Management Group, 1992.
• 1991
• Reference Model on Object Data Management.  Craig Thompson (co-author and editor).  OODB Task Group, Database Systems Study Group, ANSI X3/SPARC, 1991.
• 1990
• Object Management Architecture (OMA) Reference Model.  Craig Thompson (co-author).  Object Management Architecture Guide, Object Management Group, 1990.

Standards

• OMG Agent Working Group, Craig Thompson (Co-chair), 1998-present
• Mission Statement, Craig Thompson, 1998
• OMG-FIPA Liaison, Craig Thompson, 1999
• Agent Technology Green Paper - contributed, Craig Thompson, 1998
• Agent Glossary, Craig Thompson, 1998
• Agent Technology RFI, Craig Thompson, 1998
• responses to the Agent Technology RFI - contributed a response, Craig Thompson, 1998
• OMG Internet Special Interest Group, Craig Thompson (Co-chair), 1995-present
• ISIG Mission Statement, Craig Thompson, 1995
• Minutes of ISIG Meetings - also includes minutes of ISIG Working Groups:  Agents, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Web/OMA Integration Architectures, and Object Tranfer and Manipulation
• Final Recommendations to OMG from ISIG related to Internet Service Architecture RFI, Craig Thompson, March 1997
• Response from OBJS to the OMG Internet Services Architecture RFI, Craig Thompson, October 1996
• OMG Internet Services Architecture Request For Information, Craig Thompson, May 1996
• NCITS H7 (formerly X3H7) Object Model Features Matrix, Frank Manola (Editor), June 1997.
• Covers:  OODBTG Reference Model, OMG Core Object Model, OMG CORBA IDL, ODMG, EXPRESS, Open Distributed Processing  (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG7), Management Information Model  (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC21/WG4),  SQL3 (H2), Matisse, C++ (J16), OO COBOL (J4), Smalltalk (J20), Eiffel, Emerald, Cecil, SELF, System Object Model (SOM), OLE Component Object Model, Analysis and Design Methods

Last updated December 14, 1999.  Back to OBJS