International Workshop on Clouds for Enterprises 2011

Call for Papers: The International Workshop on Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011

http://nicta.com.au/people/tosicv/clouds4enterprises2011/

held at the 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'11, http://www.tudor.lu/cec2011)

on Monday, 5 September 2011 in Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Important dates:

Paper submission: Monday, 20 June 2011 (strict, except for re-submission of papers reviewed by CEC'11)

Notification of acceptance: Monday, 4 July 2011

Description:

Cloud computing is an increasingly popular computing paradigm that aims to streamline the on-demand provisioning of software (SaaS), platform (PaaS), infrastructure (IaaS), and data (DaaS) as services. Deploying applications on a cloud can help to achieve scalability, improve flexibility of computing infrastructure , and reduce total cost of ownership. However, a variety of challenges arise when deploying and operating applications and services in complex and dynamic cloud-based environments, which are frequent in enterprises and governments.

Due to the security and privacy concerns with public cloud offerings (which first attracted widespread attention), it seems likely that many enterprises and governments will choose hybrid cloud, community cloud, and (particularly in the near future) private cloud solutions. Multi-tier infrastructures like these not only promise vast opportunities for future business models and new types of integrated business services, but also pose severe technical and organizational problems.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic, industrial, and government researchers (from different disciplines), developers, and IT managers interested in cloud computing technologies and/or their consumer-side/provider-side use in enterprises and governments. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the inter-disciplinary and multi-perspective exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of open cloud research and adoption/exploitation issues.

This workshop invites contributions from both technical (e.g., architecture-related) and business perspectives (with governance issues spanning both perspectives). The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technical Perspective:

- Patterns and best practices in development for cloud-based applications

- Deployment and configuration of cloud services

- Migration of legacy applications to clouds

- Hybrid and multi-tier cloud architectures

- Architectural support for enhancing cloud computing interoperability and portability

- Architectural principles and approaches to cloud computing

- Cloud architectures for adaptivity or robustness

- Evaluation methods for cloud architectures

- Architectural support for dynamic resource management to support computing needs of cloud services

- Cloud architectures of emerging applications, such as mashup of enterprise/government services

- Impact of cloud computing on architecture of software and, more generally, IT systems

Enterprise/Government Application Perspective:

- Case studies and experience reports in development of cloud-based systems in enterprises and governments

- Analyses of cloud initiatives of different governments

- Business aspects of cloud service markets

- Technical and business support for various cloud service market roles, such as brokers, integrators, and certification authorities

- New applications and business models for enterprises/governments leveraging cloud computing

- Economic evaluation of cloud-based enterprises

Governance Perspective:

- Service lifecycle models

- Architectural support for security and privacy

- Architectural support for trust in/by cloud services

- Capacity planning of services running in a cloud

- Architectural support for quality of service (QoS) and service level agreement (SLA) management

- Accountability of cloud services, including mechanisms, algorithms and methods for monitoring, analyzing and reporting service status and usage profiles

- IT Governance and compliance, particularly in hybrid and multi-tier clouds

Review and publication process:

Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished, high-quality papers before

***20 June 2011***.

Due to the limited time for review, this is a strict paper submission deadline and extensions will be given only to re-submission of papers reviewed by CEC'11 (authors of these papers will have about 3 days after CEC'11 notification to improve their papers). Papers published or submitted elsewhere will be automatically rejected. All submissions should be made using the EasyChair Web site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c4e2011.

Two types of submissions are solicited:

* Full papers – describing mature research or industrial case studies – up to 8 pages long

* Short papers – describing work in progress or position statements – up to 4 pages long

Papers presenting and analyzing completed projects are particularly welcome. Papers about on-going research projects are also welcome, especially if they contain critical, qualitative and quantitative analysis of already achieved results and remaining open research issues. In addition, papers about experiences and comparative analysis of using cloud computing in enterprises and governments are also welcome. Submissions from industry and government are particularly encouraged. In addition to presentation of peer-reviewed papers this one-day workshop will contain a keynote from an industry expert and an open discussion session on practical issues of migrating legacy enterprise and government applications to clouds.

All accepted papers (both full and short) will be published by the IEEE and included into the IEEE Xplore digital library. A follow-up journal issue with improved and extended versions of the best workshop papers is also planned.

Paper submissions must be in the IEEE conference paper format. Papers in other formats will be rejected automatically. Guidelines and templates for this format are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions should include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. The document format for all paper submissions is Adobe PDF.

All submissions will be formally peer-reviewed by at least 2 Program Committee members. The authors will be notified of acceptance by

***4 July 2011***.

Since this date is very close to the deadline that the workshop chairs have for submission of camera-ready papers to the IEEE, there will be very short time (if any) for improving accepted submissions into camera-ready versions of the final papers. Further information about the procedure will be provided to the authors closer to the notification date.

At least one author of every accepted paper must register for the whole CEC’11 conference (there is no separate workshop registration) and present the paper.

Inquiries about paper submission should be e-mailed to Dr. Vladimir Tosic (vladat at server: computer.org) and include "Clouds for Enterprises 2011 Inquiry" in the Subject line.

Workshop Chairs:

Dr. Vladimir Tosic, NICTA, Australia; E-mail: vladat (at: computer.org) – primary workshop contact

Dr. Andrew Farrell, HP Labs, UK; E-mail: andrew.farrell (at: hp.com)

Dr. Karl Michael Göschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; E-mail: Karl.Goeschka (at: tuwien.ac.at)

Sebastian Hudert, University of Bayreuth, Germany; E-mail: sebastian.hudert (at uni-bayreuth.de)

Prof. Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada, E-mail: hanan (at: csd.uwo.ca)

Dr. Michael Parkin, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, E-mail: m.s.parkin (at: uvt.nl)

Workshop Program Committee (to be completed):

Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Tina Balke, Uni. Bayreuth, Germany

Paul L. Bannerman, NICTA, Australia

Rajkumar Buyya, Uni. Melbourne, Australia

Shiping Chen. CSIRO, Australia

Torsten Eymann, Uni. Bayreuth, Germany

Felix Freitag, Uni. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria, Austria

Ian Gorton, PNNL, USA

Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs, USA

Christophe Huygens, Katholieke Uni. Leuven, Belgium

Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Uni. Toronto, Canada

Bastian Koller, HLRS, Germany

Kevin Lee, Murdoch Uni., Australia

Mark Little, Red Hat, UK

Yan Liu, PNNL, USA

André Ludwig, Uni. Leipzig, Germany

John Mace, Newcastle Uni., UK

Patrick Martin, Queens Uni., Canada

Leandro Navarro, Uni. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Rui Oliveira, Uni. Minho, Portugal

José Orlando Pereira, Uni. Minho, Portugal

Nicolas Repp, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Giovanni Russello, CREATE-NET, Italy

Derong Shen, Northeastern University, China

Philipp Stephanow, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany

Francois Taiani, Lancaster Uni., UK

Yazhe Tang, Xi'an Jiaotong Uni., China

Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Uni. Leuven, Belgium

Hiroshi Wada, NICTA, Australia

Philipp Wieder, TU Dortmund, Germany

Guido Wirtz, Uni. Bamberg, Germany

Yun Yang, Swinburne Uni. of Tech., Australia

Liangzhao Zeng, IBM Research, USA

Ubiquitous Computing

Another cross post about JBossEverywhere.

Compute and Data Clouds

I've discussed several times about the need for public and private clouds. Unfortunately it's still possible to find people and vendors who believe that only public clouds are "true" clouds, whatever that means. From a purely technical perspective I am disappointed because the scientist in me always tries to take an objective stance. Factor in the business side and I can understand why they make these statements. It doesn't make it right in my book though.

However, I want to move the debate on because I think some stances are unlikely to change any time soon. So I began to think of the real reasons behind cloud: what brought us to where we are today, both social as well as technical. In some ways this is related to the posting I'll make later on the vision behind JBossEverywhere, but even that goes back even further to the root of cloud: grid computing and ubiquitous computing.

I was involved in some of the grid efforts in the early 2000's, particularly around the area of transactions and, independently, Web Services. In fact it was several of my friends and colleagues, several of whom were working for me at Arjuna, who wrote a seminal paper on the subject that really did stir up a hornets nest at the time.

However, I digress. If you look back at the grid work at the time, it had really coalesced into two different, though related, use cases: compute grids, where the networked resources worked in parallel on a (typically) small set of data that was farmed out to them by some central server(s), and the data grid, where the resources cooperate on processing a (typically) large data set that may have taken hours or days to download to them and which they may all share. The software and architecture of both types of grids could be markedly different for very good reasons, including fault tolerance and security.

Well I think those same reasons need to be applied to the cloud. Why would someone go to the expense of setting up a private cloud, for instance, versus a public clouds? Why would you use a hybrid approach? Ultimately I believe it is because of the data, and have said so before: the cloud will go to the data and not the other way around. But why? For the same reasons as the grid. If you have lots of data that would take hours or days to upload to a cloud, then you probably don't want to go the public route as failures (e.g., the AWS outage) could cost you valuable time and money, not forgetting the headache of ensuring that that much data can remain secure! But if you can split the data into logical quanta that can be processed relatively independently, then you could gain from the public cloud, even if just as an "overflow" mechanism when your private cloud runs out of capacity, as securing smaller amounts of data can be easier to accomplish and a failure should be more self contained.

Hmmm, I wonder if there's also a suitable analogy to make here with traditional ACID transactions and long running (extended) transactions?

Anyway, I believe that the public, private or hybrid debates should move on and we need to be talking about compute and data clouds. At that level the choice of *where* to host the work becomes more obvious and should be taken out of the hands of subjective vendor debates.

Papers, papers everywhere ...

Recently I got harangued by a couple of people for not having a list of my papers and books on the blog. (Go figure!) So here goes, and probably eventually I'll link to downloadable versions (until then just remember that Google Is Your Friend!)

Note, this does not include standards and specifications I've worked on! Furthermore, it's definitely out of date by a few years as well as me forgetting a few things that have happened over the past 20. Check here for a more accurate list, though I suspect even that has some problems.

Journals

• M.C. Little and D.L. McCue, “Construction and Use of a 
Simulation Package in C++," C User's Journal Vol. 12, Number 3, March 1994.
• G.D. Parrington, S.K. Shrivastava, S.M. Wheater and M.C. Little, "The Design and Implementation of Arjuna," USENIX Computing Systems Journal, Vol 8, No 3, 1995.
• D.B. Ingham, M.C. Little, S.J. Caughey, and S.K. Shrivastava, "W3Objects: Bringing Object-Oriented Technology to the Web," World Wide Web Journal, Issue 1, pp. 89-105.
• D.B. Ingham, S.J. Caughey, and M.C. Little, "Fixing the Broken-Link Problem: The W3Objects Approach," Computing Networks & ISDN Systems, Vol. 28, No. 7-11, pp. 1255-1268.
• D.B. Ingham, M.C. Little, S.J. Caughey, and S.K. Shrivastava, "W3Objects: Distributed Objects and the Web," Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook, Vol. 22, No. 13, pp. 19-25, January/February 1997.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Providing end-to-end transactional Web applications using the Object Transaction Service", OMG Success Story, August 1998.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Java Transactions for the Internet" (Extended version), Special Issue of the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, Volume 5, Number 4, December 1998.
• L.B. Arief, M.C. Little, S.K. Shrivastava, N.A. Speirs and S.M. Wheater, "Specifying Distributed System Services", BT Technology Journal, Vol. 17 No. 2 April 1999, pp. 126-136.
• Mark C. Little and Santosh K. Shrivastava, "Integrating Group Communication with Transactions for Implementing Persistent Replicated Objects", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1752, Springer-Verlag, pp. 238-253.
• Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham, C. Richard Snow, Harry Whitfield, and Santosh K. Shrivastava, "The University Student Registration System: A Case Study in Building A High-Availability Distributed Application Using General Purpose Components", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1752, Springer-Verlag, pp. 453-471.
• Mark Little, “Transactions and Web Services”, HP Middleware Developer Journal, February 2002.
• M. C. Little, N. A. Speirs and S. K. Shrivastava, “Using Bloom Filters to Speed-up Name Lookup in Distributed Systems”, The Computer Journal, Vol. 45, Issue 6, pp. 645-652 Oxford University Press/British Computer Society, 2002.
• S. Dalal, S. Temel, M. Little, M. Potts and J. Webber, “Coordinating Business Transactions on the Web”, IEEE Internet Computing, January 2003.
• M. Little, “Transactions and Web Services”, Communications of the ACM Special Issue, Volume 46, Issue 10, October 2003, pp. 49-54.
• I Houston, M. C. Little et al, “The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions”, Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 33, Issue 4, pp. 351-373, 2003.

Articles

• “The Business Transactions Protocol”, Developer.Com, March 2002, http://softwaredev.earthweb.com/sdtech/article/0,,12065_1121331_4,00.html
• “SOAP for the masses”, WebServices.org, July 24th 2005.
• “Web Services Transactions and Heuristics”, WebServices.org, 10th March 2005.
• “The OASIS WS-CAF Approach to Web Services Business Transactions”, WebServices.org, 25th January 2005.
• “The Smorgasbord of Web Services Transactions”, WebServices.org, 17th January 2005.
• “End-to-end transactionality: myth or reality?”, Java Developer Journal, March 2002, pp. 56-62.
• “An overview of support for extended transaction models in J2EE”, Developer.com, May 2002.
• “The Business Transactions Protocol”, Developer.com, May 2002.
• J. Webber, V. Corrales, M. Little and S. Parastatidis, “Making web services work”, Application Development Advisor, November/December 2001 issue.
• B. Martin and M. Little, “ACID is Good. Take it in Short Doses”, The ServerSide article, October 2004, http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=AcidShortDoses.
• S. Parastatidis, M. Little and J. Webber, “Stateful Interactions in Web Services”, Web Services Journal, May 2004.
• M. Little and J. Webber, “Introducing WS-CAF”, Web Services Journal, November 2003.
• M. Little and T. Freund, “A comparison of Web services transaction protocols”, IBM DeveloperWorks article, October 2003. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-comproto/
• M. Little and J. Webber, “Introducing BPEL4WS 1.0”, Web Services Journal, July 2003.
• M. Little and J. Webber, “Introducing WS-Transaction part 2”, Web Services Journal, June 2003.
• J. Webber and M. Little, “Introducing WS-Transaction part 1”, Web Services Journal, May 2003.
• J. Webber and M. Little, “Introducing WS-Coordination”, Web Services Journal, April 2003.

Conferences/Workshops

• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Replicated K-Resilient Objects
in Arjuna," Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on the Management of Replicated Data, pp. 53-58, Houston, Texas, November 1990.
• D.L. McCue and M.C. Little, "Computing Replica Placement in a Distributed System," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Replicated Data, pp. 58-61, Monterey C.A., November 1992.
• M.C. Little, D.L. McCue and S.K. Shrivastava, "Maintaining Information about Persistent Replicated Objects in a Distributed System," Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 491-498, Pittsburgh, May 1993.
• M.C. Little and D.L. McCue, "The Replica Management System: a Scheme for Flexible and Dynamic Replication," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Configurable Distributed Systems, Pittsburgh, March 1994.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Using Application Specific Knowledge for Configuring Object Replicas," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, pp. 169-176, Annapolis, Maryland, May 6-8, 1996.
• S.M. Wheater and M.C. Little, "The Design and Implementation of a Framework for Configurable Software," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems, pp. 136-143, Annapolis, Maryland, May 6-8, 1996.
• M.C. Little, S.K. Shrivastava, S.J. Caughey, and D.B. Ingham, "Constructing Reliable Web Applications using Atomic Actions," Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, USA 7-11 April 1997.
• S.J. Caughey, D.B. Ingham, and M.C. Little, "Flexible Open Caching for the Web," Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, USA 7-11 April 1997.
• D.B. Ingham, S.J. Caughey, and M.C. Little, "Supporting Highly Manageable Web Services," Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, USA 7-11 April 1997.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Distributed Transaction in Java," Contribution to High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS) workshop, Monterey, Sept. 1997.
• S.J. Caughey, M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Checked Transactions in an Asynchronous Message Passing Environment", The 1st IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time distributed Computing, Kyoto, Japan. April 1998.
• M.C. Little and S.M. Wheater, "Building Configurable Applications in Java," The 4th International Conference on Configurable Distributed Systems (ICCDS'98), Annapolis, Maryland, USA, May 4-6, 1998.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Java Transactions for the Internet," The 4th Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS'98), Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 1998.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Understanding the Role of Atomic Transactions and Group Communications in Implementing Persistent Replicated Objects," The 8th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems: Design Implementation and Use, Tiburon, California, USA, 30th August - 1st September 1998.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Integrating the Object Transaction Service with the Web", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC'98), November 3-5 1998, La Jolla, California.
• G. Morgan, S.K. Shrivastava, P.D. Ezhilchelvan and M.C. Little, "Design and Implementation of a CORBA Fault-tolerant Object Group Service", Proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS'99, Helsinki, June 1999.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Implementing high availability CORBA applications with Java", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications, San Jose, California, June 1999.
• M.C. Little, "Object decomposition in transactional applications", Contribution to the Eighth International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems, Pacific Grove, California, September 26-29, 1999.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "A method for combining replication with cacheing", IEEE International Workshop on Reliable Middleware Systems (WREMI'99), Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 19-22, 1999.
• P.D. Ezhilchelvan, S.K. Shrivastava and M.C. Little, “A Model Architecture for Conducting Hierarchically Structured Auctions”, Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-time Computing (ISORC), May 2001, Magdeburg, Germany.
• M. Little, S. Shrivastava and S. Wheater, “Theory and Practice of building Reliable Distributed Applications”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, September 2001, Rome, Italy.
• M.C. Little et al, “The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions”, Proceedings the IPIC/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware 2001), November 2001, Heidelberg, Germany.
• M. C. Little and S. K. Shrivastava, “An Examination of the Transition of the Arjuna Distributed Transaction Processing Software from Research to Products”, In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Industrial Experiences with Systems Software (WIESS '02), Boston, MA, USA, 8 December 2002 (Co-located with OSDI '02)
USENIX Association.
• A. I. Kistijantoro, G. Morgan, S. K. Shrivastava and M.C. Little, “Component Replication in Distributed Systems: a Case study using Enterprise Java Beans”, 22nd IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS2003), Florence, October 2003.
• M. Little, “Full Circle for Web Services Transactions?”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, October 2003.
• M. Little and E. Newcomer, “Interposition, Web Services and the Bable Fish”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, October 2003.
• M. Little, “Web services transactions: past, present and future”, Proceedings of the XML 2003 conference, Philadelphia, December 2003.
• M. Little, “Models for Web services transactions”, Proceedings of SIGMOD 2004, Paris, France, June 2004.
• M. Little, “An Open Standards Approach to Web Services Business Transactions”, Proceedings of XML Open 2004, Cambridge University, September 2004.
• D. Bunting and M. Little, “Business Process Context: Context, coordination and transactions in the Web Services architecture”, Proceedings of XML 2004, Washington DC, November 2004.
• M. Little and D. Bunting, “WS-CAF and the Web Services architecture”, Proceedings of XTECH 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2005.
• M. Little and S. Shrivastava, “The evolution of a transaction processing system”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, September 2005.
• M. Little, “Blackadder and the micro-kernel approach to Web Services transactions”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, September 2005.
• M. Little, E. Newcomer and G. Pavlik, “WS-CAF: Contexts, Coordination and Transactions for Web Services”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, September 2005.
• M. Little, G. Pavlik and A. Kumar, “The Session Concept for Web Services”, Proceedings of XML 2005, Atlanta, GA, November 2005.
• M. Little, G. Pavlik and A. Kumar, “The need for sessions in Web Services”, Proceedings of 3rd European Conference on Web Services, Sweden, November 2005.
• M. Little, “The need for a general context definition in Web Services”, Proceedings of the W3C Workshop on the Web of Services, February 2007.
• M. Little, “Transactions and open source: two steps forward, one step backwards?”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, October 2007.
• M. Little, “High Performance Name Lookups”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, October 2009.
• M. Little, “REST-based transactions”, Proceedings of the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, Asilomar, October 2009.
• Achmad I. Kistijantoro, Graham Morgan, Santosh K. Shrivastava, and Mark C. Little, “Enhancing an Application Server to Support Available Components”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 531-545, July/August 2008.

Others

• “Replication of Transactional Objects”, International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA’01), Rome, Italy, September 2001.
• “The development of Web Transactions”, OMG Web Services Workshop, San Jose, March 2002.
• “Transactions and Web Services: present and future”, OMG Workshop, Zurich, March 2002.
• “Beyond the Stock Quote: BTP, the long and short IT (Internet Transactions)”, JavaOne, San Francisco, March 2002.
• “Extended transactions”, ServerSide.com Tech Talk, February 2003.
• “Demystifying Java Transaction Processing”, JavaOne, San Francisco, July 2004.
• “The Future of Grid Technologies”, JavaOne, San Francisco, June 2005.

Project Deliverables

• G. Ferrari, P. Ezhilchelvan and M. Little, “Realistic and Tractable Modelling of Multi-tiered E-business Service Provisioning”, TAPAS Project deliverable, April 2005.
• S.M. Wheater and M.C. Little, "The Design and Implementation of a Framework for Extensible Software," BROADCAST Project Technical Report.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Object Replication in Arjuna," BROADCAST Project Techical Report, 50, October 1994.
• G.D. Parrington, S.K. Shrivastava, S.M. Wheater and M.C. Little, "The Design and Implementation of Arjuna," BROADCAST Project Techical Report, 65, October 1994.
• M.C. Little and S.K. Shrivastava, "Object Replication in Arjuna," Draft Version Newcastle University, Computing Science Laboratory, August 1993.
• M.C. Little, D.L. McCue and S.K. Shrivastava, "Maintaining Information about Persistent Replicated Object in a Distributed System," BROADCAST Project Techical Report, October 1993.
• S.K. Shrivastava, P.D. Ezhilchelvan and M.C. Little, "Understanding Component Failures and Replications in Distributed Systems," ISA Technical Report, UNT/TR1, May 1990.
• S.K. Shrivastava, G.N. Dixon, M.C. Little, G.D. Parrington, F. Hedayati and S.M. Wheater, "The Design and Implementation of Arjuna," Technical Report Series, 280, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, March 1989.

Books

• M. Little, J. Maron and G. Pavlik, “Java Transaction Processing: Design and Implementation”, Prentice Hall. July 2004.
• J. McGovern, A. Williamson, M. Little, A. Jain et al, “The J2EE 1.4 Bible”, Wiley Associates, December 2003.
• J. McGovern, M Little et al. “Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture”, Prentice Hall. Publication date to be announced.
• Chapter on Web Services Transactions, MIT Press Publication on “The Web Services Architecture”, 2005.

A worrying lack of physics!

Half of my undergraduate degree was spent in advanced physics, including astronomy, astrophysics and high-energe particle physics. I loved all of those subjects and they continue to influence me today. Despite moving from academia to various companies, I've stayed pretty close to the University, so it's with great sadness that I've witnessed the collapse of subjects such as physics within it over the past few years.

Therefore, it's even more worrying to read articles such as this. People who don't really understand the importance of science are making judgements about its future without seeking the right level of consultancy, or listening to what they are being told. But then what's new? Maybe they'll understand history more?

JBoss Everywhere

It's a catchy title but manages to capture in two words a lot of what I've been thinking about as the future of middleware for well over a decade (or two!) I'll dig into detail in future entries, but for now it's worth just cross linking the article I wrote earlier.