Architecture Briefing

Commonwealth Institute, Holland Park, London Thursday, November 30, 2000

in association with

Time	Session Leader	Content	Notes & Links
10.00 - 11.15	Peter Linington	Open Distributed Processing Why have an architecture? Overview of ODP Viewpoints and separation of concerns Transparencies Objects and components Object models	Slides - 4up, 1up Links: - ODP Reference Model (ISO/IEC 10746) Parts 1-4 Corba sources available via http://www.omg.org
11.15-11.30	COFFEE
11.30 - 12.45	Ian Utting	Internetworking and Portability	Slides - 4up, 1up Links: - SOAP -- a W3C Technical Report Service Discovery -- UDDI Microsoft's .NET and the Common Language Runtime environment Java Language / Environment White Papers Jini White Papers Java, RMI and CORBA (old and biased, but a good starting point)
12.45 - 13.45	LUNCH
13.45 - 15.00	Peter Linington	Security Aims of a security architecture Trusted base and placement of functions Common building blocks Domains and firewalls Open security?	Slides - 4up, 1up Links: - Collection of Distributed Security Architecture papers - abstracts and links General security links VPN info
15.00 - 15.15	TEA
15.15 - 16.00	Stuart Kent	Modelling Layered models, architecture, patterns, domain specific languages UML: overview & update Language definition & meta-modelling Automated design, testing, quality Federated tools, integration & interoperability Meta-tools	Slides - 4up, 1up Links: - UML 2.0 working group Ongoing work at the OMG (including various UML profiles) Precise UML group (pUML) USE, Boldsoft MetaEdit+, Dome Daniel's & Cheesman's book on component-based development

Each session will be introduced by a presentation of about 30 minutes in length. The remaining time will take the form of a Q & A session, whose purpose will be to explore how the technologies, techniques and ideas presented relate to participants' domains.

Biographies

Peter Linington is the Head of the Networks and Distributed Systems Group in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has been a Professor since 1987. Before that, he was Head of the UK Joint Network Team, and responsible for the development and operation of the JANET network. He has been active in international standardization since 1978, working on open communications protocols and distributed systems architectures. His current research interests are in the description, construction and performance of distributed and multimedia systems, and in the monitoring and analysis of performance in broadband ATM networks.

Ian Utting is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent, where he has been a member of the Distributed Systems a nd Networks Research Group for over 10 years. He is currently also Director of Kent's Academic Java Campus programme in collaboration with Sun Microsystems. His current research interests are in design and infrastructure for large-scale distributed systems and in nomadic computing.

Stuart Kent is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent. He is closely involved with the revision of the UML, in particular through a collaboration between the precise UML group (www.puml.org) and IBM to provide a rearchitected and precise definition for UML 2.0. He has experience as a consultant to industry, including mentoring and delivery of training courses. His current research focuses on the development and application of precise, visual modelling notations for the construction and evolution of software and other conceptual systems. He is on the programme committee for various international conferences, and was conference chair for UML'2000.

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