This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference 2007, held in Newport Beach, CA, USA, in November 2007. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on component-based middleware, mobile and ubiquitous computing, grid and cluster computing, enhancing communication, resource management, reliability and fault tolerance.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Middleware, held in Urbana, IL, USA during November 30 - December 4. The 21 papers presented have been selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on communications (protocols and optimization), service component composition/adaption, monitoring, pervasive, stream processing, failure resilience, and support for testing.

The challenges of designing, building, and maintaining large-scale, distributed enterprise systems are truly daunting. Written by and for IT professionals, IT Architectures and Middleware, Second Edition, will help you rise above the conflicts of new business objectives, new technologies, and vendor wars, allowing you to think clearly and productively about the particular challenges you face. This book focuses on the essential principles and priorities of system design and emphasizes the new requirements emerging from the rise of e-commerce and distributed, integrated systems. It offers a concise overview of middleware technology alternatives and distributed systems. Numerous increasingly complex examples are incorporated throughout, and the book concludes with some short case studies. Topics covered include: Middleware technology review Key principles of distributed systems: resiliency, performance and scalability, security, and systems management Information access requirements and data consistency Application integration design Recasting existing applications as services In this new edition, with updates throughout, coverage has been expanded to include: Service-oriented architecture concepts Web services and .NET technology A more structured approach to system integration design

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference 2008, held in Leuven, Belgium, in December 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on platforms extended to new capabilities, advanced software engineering focusing on specific system properties, system management techniques, as well as components and system algorithms and properties.

Middleware is the bridge that connects distributed applications across different physical locations, with different hardware platforms, network technologies, operating systems, and programming languages. This book describes middleware from two different perspectives: from the viewpoint of the systems programmer and from the viewpoint of the applications programmer. It focuses on the use of open source solutions for creating middleware and the tools for developing distributed applications. The design principles presented are universal and apply to all middleware platforms, including CORBA and Web Services. The authors have created an open-source implementation of CORBA, called MICO, which is freely available on the web. MICO is one of the most successful of all open source projects and is widely used by demanding companies and institutions, and has also been adopted by many in the Linux community.* Provides a comprehensive look at the architecture and design of middlewarethe bridge that connects distributed software applications* Includes a complete, commercial-quality open source middleware system written in C++* Describes the theory of the middleware standard CORBA as well as how to implement a design using open source techniques

The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to c- municate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of this pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. The international conference series on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE) is dedicated to address emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless software-related areas. The scope of the conference includes the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems. MOBILWARE 2010 was the third edition of this conference, which was made p- sible thanks to the sponsorship of ICST and Create-Net and most importantly the hard work of the TPC and reviewers. Similar to the last successful editions, we had 35 submissions from 23 different countries this year, reflecting the international interest for the conference topics. After a thorough review process, we finalized an excellent technical program including 18 regular papers and 4 short papers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 12th International Middleware Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 industry papers and an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social networks, storage and performance management, green computing and resource management, notification and streaming, replication and caching, security and interoperability, and run-time (re)configuration and inspection.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, held in Montreal, Canada, in December 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mobile middleware; tracing and diagnosis; architecture and performance; publish/subscribe middleware; and big-data and cloud computing; availability, security and privacy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods, WS-FM 2008, held in Milan, Italy, in September 2008 in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers feature topics such as analysis, test, and verification; choreographies and process calculi; transactions and interoperability; workflows and petri nets.

This 2-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2014, held in Beijing, China, in September 2014. The 27 regular and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed. It also presents 22 papers accepted for four workshops (ATCS, SSS, SLSS, DAPRO) in conjunction with the conference, 6 doctoral symposium papers and 8 poster papers. The papers are grouped in the following topics: security and privacy in wired, wireless, mobile, hybrid, sensor, ad hoc networks; network intrusion detection and prevention, firewalls, packet filters; malware, and distributed denial of service; communication privacy and anonymity; network and internet forensics techniques; public key infrastructures, key management, credential management; secure routing, naming/addressing, network management; security and privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing; security & privacy for emerging technologies: VoIP, peer-to-peer and overlay network systems; security & isolation in data center networks; security & isolation in software defined networking.