Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market: Third International Ifip/GI Working Conference, Usm 2000 Munich, Germany, September (Paperback, 2000)

Invited Talks.- Beyond the TINA Lesson: Distributed Processing for Integrated Fixed and Mobile Communications.- Quality of Service and Service Provisioning on a Competitive Market.- The TAO of Patterns - Understanding Middleware and Component Architectures.- Session I: Electronic Auctions and Trading.- Market-Skilled Agents for Automating the Bandwidth Commerce.- Integrating Trading and Load Balancing for Efficient Management of Services in Distributed Systems.- Mapping Enterprise Roles to CORBA Objects Using Trader.- Session II: Internet-Based Service Markets.- A Scheme for Component Based Service Deployment.- Performance Modeling of a Service Provisioning Design.- Correlation DialTone-Building Internet-Based Distributed Event Correlation Services.- Session III: Quality of Service.- Programming Internet Quality of Service.- Monitoring Quality of Service across Organizational Boundaries.- Automated Allocation of Multi-provider Service Demands.- Session IV: Mobile and Distributed Services.- A Vehicular Software Architecture Enabling Dynamic Alterability of Services Sets.- JBSA: An Infrastructure for Seamless Mobile Systems Integration.- Mobtel - A Mobile Distributed Telemedical System for Application in the Neuropsychological Therapy.- Session V: Middleware Architectures.- Trade-offs in a Secure Jini Service Architecture.- Loadable Smart Proxies and Native-Code Shipping for CORBA.- A Middleware Architecture for Scalable, QoS-Aware, and Self-Organizing Global Services.- Session VI: Service Management.- Fuzzy Modeling of Cooperative Service Management.- Customer Service Management: An Information Model for Communication Services.- Specification of a Service Management Architecture to Run Distributed and Networked Systems.- Poster Session I: Mobile Agents and Applications.- Towards Context-Aware User Modeling.- Context Notification in Mobile Environment to Find the Right Person in Time.- Automated Adaptation for Mobile Computing Based on Mobile Agents.- How to Efficiently Deploy Mobile Agents for an Integrated Management.- A Scalable Location Aware Service Platform for Mobile Applications Based on Java RMI.- Poster Session II: Trends in Data- and Telecommunications.- Design-Aspects for the Integration of CORBA-Based Value Added Services and Intelligent Networks.- Experiences Building a Service Execution Node for Distributed IN Systems.- Leasing in a Market for Computing Capacity.- Virtual Malls for Web Commerce: Observations and Case Study.- A QoS Meta Model to Define a Generic Environment for QoS Management.