Proceedings Fourth International Conference: Enterprise Distributed Object Computing : 25-28 September 2000, Makuhari, Japan

The 28 papers are mostly technical in nature, but do include two invited industry perspectives on distributed object and component technologies for businesses. They discuss such aspects as service provision, enterprise modeling and development methodology, software architecture, work flow, migration and integration, middleware and agents, electronic business, and Web-based computing. In addition, brief abstracts are provided for the three keynote addresses; panels are listed, but no record of them offered. Among the specific topics are application integration in the Boeing enterprise, a service framework specification for dynamic electronic-services interaction, a foundation for the concept of role in object modeling, the distributed and concurrent processing of business object documents in support of electronic-enterprise integration, a distributed work flow management system for electronic commerce, a business component framework and modeling method for a component-based application architecture, and impacts of download size to client server applications being migrated to the Internet. There is no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)