Open Distributed Processing contains the selected proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Distributed Systems, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Brisbane, Australia, in February 1995. The book deals with the interconnectivity problems that advanced computer networking raises, providing those working in the area with the most recent research, including security and management issues.Open Distributed Processing contains the selected proceedings of the Third International Conference on Open Distributed Systems, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Brisbane, Australia, in February 1995. The book deals with the interconnectivity problems that advanced computer networking raises, providing those working in the area with the most recent research, including security and management issues.Preface. Third International IFIP TC6 Conference on Open Distributed Processing. List of referees. Part One: INVITED PRESENTATIONS: Reference model of open distributed processing (RM-ODP): Introduction. RM-ODP: The architecture. New ways of learning through the global information infrastructure. Part Two: REVIEWED PAPERS: Session on architecture. The A1 architecture model. Interoperability of distributed platforms: a compatibility perspective. A general resource discovery system for open distributed processing. Session on management - a telecommunications perspective. Management service design: from TMN interface specifications to ODP computational objects. Analysis and design of a management application using RM-ODP and OMT. Distributing public network management systems using CORBA. Session on trading. Designing an ODP trader implementation using X.500. An evaluation scheme for trader user interfaces. AI-based trading in open distributed environments. Session on interworking traders. A model for a federative trader. Enabling interlƒ*