Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2008, held in Oslo, Norway, in June 2008. The DAIS conference was held as a joint event in federation with the 10th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2008) and the 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2008).§The 19 revised full papers presented together with 6 revised work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of distributed applications and interoperable systems, including their design, implementation, operation and maintenance, as well as supporting middleware, experimental studies, and advances to software engineering methodologies and tools. The papers are organized in topical sections on service orientation, QoS management and composition, dependability and reliability, peer-to-peer overlays, adaptation, model-driven development, components, protocols and interactions, as well as pervasive computing,