New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Invited Lecture.- The Intelligent Infrastructure for E-business.- Context Aware Applications.- Middleware Support for Context-aware Multimedia Applications.- Capeus: An Architecture for Context-aware Selection and Execution of Services.- Sentient Computing for Everyone.- The Active Guidebook.- Interoperability.- Software Connectors and Their Role in Component Deployment.- An Extension to a Corba Trader to Support XML Service Descriptions.- On the Construction of Distributed RM-ODP Specifications.- Short Papers I.- Aspectix: A Quality-aware, Object-based Middleware Architecture.- Providing Messaging Interoperability in FIPA Communication Architecture.- Architectural Design and Performance Aspects of Developing Applications Based on Middleware.- Managing Evolution in Telecommunication Systems.- Mobility Management for Providing QoS in Local Area Wireless Networks.- Invited Lecture.- Information Access is Fine, But Who is Going to Pay?.- Applications.- A Framework for Aspect-oriented Multiparty Coordination.- An Open Architecture for Pervasive Systems.- Design and Evaluation of A QoS Provisioning Service.- Mobile Agents.- Integrating Mobile Agents and Neural Networks for Proactive Management.- Second Price Auctions.- Specification and Verification of a Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol for Agent-based Applications.- Monitoring.- Widening Traditional Management Platforms for Managing Corba Applications.- Live Upgrade Techniques for Corba Applications.- Raccoon - An Infrastructure for Managing Access Control in CORBA.- Short Papers II.- Tool-assisted Security Assessment of Distributed Applications.- Service Oriented Application Management - Do Current Techniques Meet the Requirements?.- Java Class Loading Techniques in the Harness Metacomputing Framework.- Designing andImplementing an Object-relational Data Warehousing System.- Distributed Transactions for ODMG Federated Databases.