Preliminary Report on the Design of a Framework
		    for Distributed Visualization

	 Julio Lopez, Martin Aeschlimann, Peter Dinda,
	 Loukas Kallivokas, Bruce Lowekamp, and David O'Hallaron


The paper is a preliminary report on the design of a framework, called Dv,
for building interactive distributed visualizations on computational
grids. The framework is based on a form of mobile object, called an active
frame, that consists of application data and a program that manipulates
the data. The system provides a flexible framework for building
distributed applications that are performance-portable in the presence of
heterogeneous resources and that adapt to dynamic changes in the status of
system resources such as processor cycles and network bandwidth.

@inproceedings	{ lopez-pdpta99,
  author	= "J. Lopez and M. Aeschlimann and P. Dinda
		   and L. Kallivokas and B. Lowekamp and D. O'Hallaron",
  title		= "Preliminary Report on the Design of a Framework 
		   for Distributed Visualization",
  booktitle	= "Proceedings of the International Conference on
		   Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
		   Applications ({PDPTA}'99)",
  month		= "June",
  year		= "1999",
  address	= "Las Vegas, NV",
  pages		= "1833--1839"
}