Distributed applications are a necessity in most central application sectors of the contemporary information society, including e-commerce, e-banking, e-learning, e-health, telecommunication and transportation. This results from a tremendous growth of the role that the Internet plays in business, administration and our everyday activities. This trend is going to be even further expanded in the context of advances in broadband wireless communication.
New Developments in Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems focuses on the techniques available or under development with the goal to ease the burden of constructing reliable and maintainable interoperable information systems providing services in the global communicating environment.
The topics covered in this book include:

Context-aware applications;
Integration and interoperability of distributed systems;
Software architectures and services for open distributed systems;
Management, security and quality of service issues in distributed systems;
Software agents and mobility;
Internet and other related problem areas. The book contains the proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'2001), which was held in September 2001 in Kraków, Poland, and sponsored by the International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP).
The conference program presents the state of the art in research concerning distributed and interoperable systems. This is a topical research area where much activity is currently in progress. Interesting new aspects and innovative contributions are still arising regularly. The DAIS series of conferences is one of the main international forums where these important findings are reported.

Contenu
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.