Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

Semantically Aware Contention Management for Distributed Applications.- FITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud.- Network Forensics for Cloud Computing.- Dynamic Deployment of Sensing Experiments in the Wild Using Smartphones.- AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling.- Strategies for Generating and Evaluating Large-Scale Powerlaw-Distributed P2P Overlays.- Ambient Clouds: Reactive Asynchronous Collections for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Applications.- Bandwidth Prediction in the Face of Asymmetry.- A Scalable Benchmark as a Service Platform.- Failure Analysis and Modeling in Large Multi-site Infrastructures.- Evaluating the Price of Consistency in Distributed File Storage Services.- An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases.- EZ: Towards Efficient Asynchronous Protocol Gateway Construction.- Autonomous Adaptation of Cloud Applications.- Toward Unified and Flexible Security Policies Enforceable within the Cloud.- Towards Decentralised Workflow Scheduling via a Rule-Driven Shared Space.- Strengthening Consistency in the Cassandra Distributed Key-Value Store.- Distributed Architecture for a Peer-to-Peer-Based Virtual Microscope.