This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2013, held in Florence, Italy, in June 2013, as part of the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2013. The 12 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers present state-of-the-art research results and case studies in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems focussing on cloud computing, replicated storage, and peer-to-peer computing.

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Inhalt
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.