Posters of the 2003 DOA (Distributed Objects and Applications) International Conference.- On Enhancing Component-Based Middleware with Transactions.- Online Consistency Checking for Replicated Objects.- Integrating Container Services with Pluggable System Extensions.- SGI-SAT Trillo: A Full Scope Simulator for Nuclear Power Plants.- MobJeX: A Declaratively Configurable Java Based Framework for Resource Aware Object Mobility.- Posters of the 2003 CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) International Conference.- Trading Freshness for Performance in a Cluster of Replicated Databases.- Regarding the Integration of Collaborative Applications into Virtual Worlds.- Workflow Reconfiguration Using Chains.- Posters of the 2003 ODBASE (Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics) International Conference.- Modeling Semistructured Data by Using Graph-Based Constraints.- A Graph-Based Model for Semistructured Temporal Data.- A Formal Approach to Knowledge Base Comparison and Interoperability.- COVA: A Web-Based Learning System for Content-Based Lecture Retrieval.- An Ontology for Semantic Middleware: Extending DAML-S Beyond Web-Services.- A Formalism of Contextualized Predicate Calculus for Information Integration.- An Ontology Based Visual Tool for Query Formulation Support.- Industry Program Workshop (IPW).- Workshop PC Chairs’ Message.- Revaluation of a Large-Scale Thesaurus for Multi-media Indexing: An Experience Report.- On Storing and Querying XML Data within Network-Enabled Embedded Systems.- An Object-Oriented Invocation Layer for the Java Message Service.- Web Services-Based Transactional Workflows – Advanced Transaction Concepts.- MIDAS’s Routing and Scheduling Approach for the Australian Transport Industries.- An Approach to the Process Maps Based on Semantic Web Methodologies.- PEPt – A Minimal RPC Architecture.- Modelling Organic Adaptable Service-Oriented Enterprise Architectures.- Towards a Semantic Integration of Medical Relational Databases by Using Ontologies: A Case Study.- Workshop on Human Computer Interface for Semantic Web and Web Applications (HCI-SWWA).- HCISWWA 2003 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Designing Ontology-Based Interactive Information Retrieval Interfaces.- Usability Issues Confronting Mobile Devices as Internet Interfaces for General Purpose Navigation.- Navigating through the RLATES Interface: A Web-Based Adaptive and Intelligent Educational System.- Searching with Semantics: An Interactive Visualization Technique for Exploring an Annotated Image Collection.- Ontology-Mediated Service Matching and Adaptation.- The Role of Vague Categories in Semantic and Adaptive Web Interfaces.- Two Layer Web User Interface Analysis Framework Using SNN and iFIN.- Usability Metrics for E-learning.- Creating a “DOGMAtic” Multilingual Ontology Infrastructure to Support a Semantic Portal.- Modeling Submit/Response Style Systems with Form Charts and Dialogue Constraints.- Semantic Web Services for Smart Devices in a “Global Understanding Environment”.- Construction of Generic Web-Based User Interfaces.- A Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm for Information Retrieval Applications.- Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems (JTRES).- Workshop PC Chairs’ Message JTRES 2003 PC Co-Chairs’ Message.- Towards a High Integrity Real-Time Java Virtual Machine.- Aspect-Orientation of Control Application Code for Distributed Automation Systems: The TORERO Approach.- JOP: A Java Optimized Processor.- Processing Group Parameters in the Real-Time Specification for Java.- Doing Firm-Real-Time with J2SE APIs.- Container Model Based on RTSJ Services.- Reference Objects for RTSJ Memory Areas.- Deriving Java Virtual Machine Timing Models for Portable Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis.- Efficient Bytecode Verification Using Immediate Postdominators in Control Flow Graphs.- Computational Reflection for Embedded Java Systems.- Issues in the Design and Implementation of Efficient Interfaces between Hard and Soft Real-Time Java Components.- The Metronome: A Simpler Approach to Garbage Collection in Real-Time Systems.- Memory Management Design to the Concurrent Execution of RTSJ Applications.- Experiences in Adopting Real-Time Java for Flight-Like Software.- A Patterns Catalog for RTSJ Software Designs.- RTSJ Memory Areas and Their Affects on the Performance of a Flight-Like Attitude Control System.- Scheduling Policy Costs on a JAVA Microcontroller.- Experiences and Benchmarking with JTime.- Utilitiy Accrual Scheduling with Real-Time Java.- A C++ Native Interface for Interpreted JVMs.- Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies and the Modelling of Complaint Regulations (WORM CoRe).- WORM CoRe 2003 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- On the Ontology of Digital Identification.- Ontology-Based Customer Complaint Management.- Some Ontological Tools to Support Legal Regulatory Compliance, with a Case Study.- Regulatory Ontologies: An Intellectual Property Rights Approach.- Copyright Conflicts Resolution: A Method Based on Legal Ontologies in an Architecture Enabling Subsidiarity.- A Comparison of a Regulatory Ontology with Existing Legal Ontology Frameworks.- Representing Multilingual and Culture-Specific Knowledge in a VAT Regulatory Ontology: Support from the Termontography Method.- Ontology-Based Platform for Trusted Regulatory Compliance Services.- Business Contract Obligation Monitoring through Use of Multi Tier Contract Ontology.- Workshop on Metadata for Security (WMS).- WMS 2003 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Efficient Processing of Secured XML Metadata.- Multimedia Access Control Using RDF Metadata.- Managing Identities via Interactions between Ontologies.- Implementing an Access Control System for SVG Documents.- Administration Model for Or-BAC.- Metadata Representation for Semantic-Based Multimedia Security and Management.- Comparing Logic-Based and XML-Based Rights Expression Languages.- Simplifying CORBA Security Service to Support Service Level Access Control.- The Role of Deontic Concepts and Commitment in the Policy Specification of Mobile Computing Environment.- Business to Consumer Markets on the Semantic Web.- Modeling Business Collaborations in Context.- Security Framework for Mobile Agent Platforms (SFMAP).- An Architecture for Software Agreements between Autonomous Agents.- Workshop on Reliable and Secure Middleware (WRSM).- WRSM 2003 PC Co-Chairs’ Message.- Fault-Tolerant Middleware.- Fairly Redistributing Failed Server Load in a Distributed System.- Aquarius: A Data-Centric Approach to CORBA Fault-Tolerance.- FT-Java: A Java-Based Framework for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Software.- Quality of Service.- Adaptive Message Packing for Group Communication Systems.- DADO: A Novel Programming Model for Distributed, Heterogenous, Late-Bound QoS Implementations.- Many Aspects of Reliabilities in a Distributed Mobile Messaging Middleware over JMS.- Enterprise Middleware Issues.- A Flexible Middleware Platform with Piped Workflow.- Using Web Services Technology for Inter-enterprise Integration of Digital Time Stamping.- A Lightweight Security Model for WBEM.- Agent-Based Middleware.- Security and Trust in Agent-Oriented Middleware.- A Conceptual Framework for Web Services Semantic Discovery.- A Holonic Multi-agent System for Robust, Flexible, and Reliable Medical Diagnosis.- Ph.D. Presentations.- Choosing Reputable Resources in Atomistic Peer-to-Peer Environments.- A Fast Group Communication Mechanism for Large Scale Distributed Objects.- Application of Catalogues to Integrate Heterogeneous Data Banks.- Certificate Validation in Untrusted Domains.