Global Computing: IST/FET International Workshop, GC 2004, Rovereto, Italy, March 9-12, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

by Corrado Priami (Editor), Paola Quaglia (Editor)

This volume collects revised versions of some of the papers presented at the S- ond IST/FET International Workshop on Global Computing held in Rovereto, Italy (9-12 March, 2004). The workshop involved all the thirteen projects funded under the IST/FET proactive initiative on GLOBAL AGILE; CRESCCO; DART; DBGLOBE;DEGAS;FLAGS;MIKADO;MRG;MYTHS;PEPITO;PROFUN- DIS; SECURE; SOCS. The ?rst aim of the GLOBAL COMPUTING initiative is the development of paradigms for building ?exible, dependable, secure, robust and e?cient systems. Primaryresearchconcernsaretheco-ordination, interaction, security, reliability, robustness, and risk control of the entities in the global system. The ultimate goaloftheresearchactionistoprovideasolidscienti?cfoundationforthedesign of such systems, and to lay the groundwork for achieving e?ective principles for building and analysing them. Theworkshopcoveredtopicsrelatedtoprogrammingenvironments, dynamic recon?guration, resource guarantees, peer-to-peer networks, analysis of systems and resources, resource sharing, and security, as well as foundational calculi for mobility. The present collection o?ers a rich sample of research results on the above subjects. We acknowledge the Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni of the University of Trento for partially funding the workshop, and the Events and Meetings O?ce of the University of Trento for the valuable collaboration.

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2005