The Workshop on Internet-scale Software Technologies

Organizational and Technical Issues in the Tension Between
Centralized and Decentralized Applications on the Internet

July 13-14, 2000
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, USA


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Thursday, July 13
    8:00 - 8:45 On-site Registration
  8:45 - 9:00

Welcome(Presentation - PPT)
Richard N. Taylor, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine

  9:00 - 10:00 Session I
   

(De)Centralization as Morality Play (Presentation - PPT)
John King, Dean, School of Information, University of Michigan

  10:00 - 10:20 Break
  10:20 - 11:50 Session II
 
Organizational and Technical Issues in the Tension Between Centralized and Decentralized Applications on the Internet (Position Statement - PDF, Presentation - PPT)
Alvina Nishimoto, Commercial Systems Division, Hewlett-Packard Company
 

alphaServices ­ an Experiment in Developing Enterprise Applications (Position Statement - DOC, Presentation - HTML)
Edith H Stern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 
The Next Revolution: Free, Full, Open Person-2-Person (P2P) E-commerce (Position Statement - PDF)
Premkumar Devanbu, University of California, Davis
Stuart G. Stubblebine, CertCo
Michael F. Uschold, Boeing Applied Research
  12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
  1:45 - 2:45 Session III
 
P2P: Person-to-Person Decentralized Work using Magi (Presentation - PPT)
Gregory Alan Bolcer, Founder and CTO, Endeavors Technology, Inc.
  2:45 - 3:00 Break
  3:00 - 4:30 Session IV
 
A View from the Gallery (Presentation - HTML)
Adam L. Beberg, Mithral Communications & Design, Inc.
 
Good enough is better
Lucas Gonze, WorldOS, Lucas Gonze Engineering
 
Centralization vs. Decentralization Issues in Internet-based Knowledge Management Systems: Experiences from Expert Recommender Systems (Position Statement - PDF, Presentation - PPT)
Dawit Yimam, GMD - German National Research Center for IT, Institute for Applied Information Technology
Alfred Kobsa, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine
 
5:00 - 7:00
Reception at the UClub

 

 
Friday, July 14
  9:00 - 10:00

Session V: Facilitated Discussion
Moderators: Richard N. Taylor, Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine and Michael Gorlick, The Aerospace Corp.

  10:00 - 10:20

Break

  10:20 - 11:50

Session VI

 
Logically centralized, physically distributed (Presentation - PPT)
Mark Stuart Day, Senior Scientist, Cisco Systems
 
The Klearinghouse - a network based model for user support (Position Statement - TXT, Presentation - PPT)
George H. Brett II, NLANR / DAST, NCSA ACCESS
 
Centralized vs. Decentralized Design in Internet-scale Applications (Position Statement - PDF, Presentation - PPT)
Adriana Iamnitchi, University of Chicago
  12:00 - 1:30

Lunch

  1:45 - 3:15 Session VII
 

ClearNet: Centralized Control in a Decentralized Architecture for Online Financial Services (Presentation - PPT)
Nasser Barghouti, ONEWORLD Software Solutions

    Centralize or Decentralize? A Requirements Engineering Perspective on Internet-Scale Architectures (Position Statement - PDF, Presentation - PPT)
Eric Yu, University of Toronto
  3:15 - 3:30

Break

  3:30 - 4:15 Closing Discussion
  4:15
End of Workshop

 


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