Department of Computer Science

Department information

 

Production and Integration of Large Component Systems

Description

The PILARCOS project developes middleware solutions for automatic management of interorganizational applications.

The challenge of interorganizational application management stems from the sovereignity of organizations: they are free to choose supported services, develop the services independently, use differing operational policies, and use different platform technology, too.

The Pilarcos project works at two fronts

• architecture development for a federated environment where applications are constructed based on community descriptions populated by traded components; and
• prototyping (mainly in CORBA environment) some essential middleware services required for negotiation of federations, instantiating communities in a distributed fashion, and creating a communication channel over a heterogeneous networking environment.

The results of the project are applicable for example in mobile environment, especially in mixed mobile-fixed-network systems, and electronic commerce applications.

The project is supported by TEKES, Nokia, SysOpen and Tellabs.

Publications

• Kutvonen, L., Automated management of inter-organisational applications. EDOC 2002. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kutvonen, L. et al. OMG Whitepaper on Middleware Management. web pdf
• Vähäaho, M., Kutvonen, L., Enhanced trading service in middleware for inter-organisational applications. Manuscript. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. 2003 [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kutvonen, L., Costs and benefits of Pilarcos federation middleware. Manuscript. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. 2003 [PostScript] [PDF]
• Vähäaho, M., Haataja, J-P., Metso, J., Suoranta, T., Silfver, E., Kutvonen, L. Pilarcos prototype II. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2003-NN. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Haataja, J-P., Metso, J., Suoranta, T., Vähäaho M., Silfver, E., Kutvonen, L. Platform experiences. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2003-NN. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kutvonen, L., Haataja, J-P., Silfver, E., Vähäaho, M., Pilarcos architecture. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2001-10. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Kutvonen, L., Haataja, J-P., Silfver, E., Vähäaho, M., Evaluation and exploitation of OMG CORBA technologies. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2001-11. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Vähäaho, M., Silfver, E., Haataja, J-P., Kutvonen, L., Alanko, T., Pilarcos demonstration prototype -- design and performance. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2001-64. [PostScript] [PDF]
• Haataja, J-P., Silfver, E., Vähäaho, M., Kutvonen, L., CORBA Component Model -- status and experiences. Technical report. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki. C-2001-65. [PostScript] [PDF]

Research group

• Lea Kutvonen, project leader, on leave 14.5.2001 - 31.3. 2002
• Timo Alanko, project leader, 1.5. 2001 - 31.8.2002
• Juha-Pekka Haataja
• Janne Metso
• Egil Silfver
• Timo Suoranta
• Markku Vähäaho

Thesis work and vacancies

See the Finnish page Graduaiheita ja projektitöitä for further information.

Contact

Lea Kutvonen
Department of Computer Science
PBox 26 (Teollisuuskatu 23)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Lea.Kutvonen@cs.Helsinki.FI

Positioning

Member of ODCE group, under the specialization line of Distributed systems and data communication (research pages, education).