Subject: C433 JGSI Review Resent-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:34:32 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu Date: Fri, 10 Sep 99 9:21:52 MET DST From: Henri Bal To: gcf@npac.syr.edu Reviewer: Aske Plaat, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ========================================================================= Review of: A tale of two directories: Implementing Distributed Shared Objects in Java by Maurice Herlihy and Michael P. Warres a)Overall Recommendation Originality: Low to medium Technical quality: Medium Interest to audience: Medium to High b)Words suitable for authors A lot of work has been done on directory schemes; it is hard to come up with a new and exciting scheme. The novelty of the proposed scheme lies more in it being implemented in Java than in being new in its own right. The experiments are interesting, yet do not cover all the questions that are implied in the paper. The paper is quite readable and reasonably well organized. If only the directory scheme were more novel. c)Words for me if necessary This is not really all that much exciting. There has already been a lot of work on directory scheme *very* much like the one described here. I guess since it was accepted for the conference you have to accept it for CP&E, however, if this were a new submission to CP&E I would give it a clear leaning to reject, since it is just not new and exciting enough for a journal, and the experiments are of a rather limited nature. Just because you apply some old thing in the context of Java doesn't necessarily make it novel and exciting. Other than that, for a conference paper it's OK, I guess, and everything is quite readable and well presented.