Welcome to the proceedings of the ISPA 2005 workshops, held in the city of Nanjing, China. For the first time eight workshops were held in conjunction with the 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2005), to encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners. Workshop topics are, of course, in line with the conference's scientific scope and the workshops provided a forum for groups of researchers and practitioners to meet together more closely, to exchange opinions and advanced ideas, and to share preliminary results on focused issues in an atmosphere that fostered interaction and problem solving.The conference hosted eight half-day workshops: The International Workshop on Applications and Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems organized by Qianni Deng and Zhichen Xu; the International Workshop on Advanced Storage Technology and Autonomic Distributed Data organized by Jiwu Shu and Weimin Zheng; the International Workshop on Bioinformatics organized by Mathew Palaka, Jake Chen and Zongben Xu; the International Workshop on Grid Computing in China organized by Hai Jin and Minglu Li; the International Workshop on Information Assurance in Distributed Systems organized by Peng Liu and Meng Yu; the International Workshop on Mobile Ad-hoc and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks organized by Anu Bourgeois and Wei Lou; the International Workshop on Service Grid Computing and Applications organized by Nong Xiao and Yunhao Liu; and the International Workshop on Web Information Systems and Applications organized by Baowen Xu.
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This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Internetware, covering aspects ranging from the fundamental principles and engineering methodologies to operational platforms, quality measurements and assurance and future directions. It also includes guidelines and numerous representative real-world case studies that serve as an invaluable reference resource for software engineers involved in the development of Internetware applications. Providing a detailed analysis of current trends in modern software engineering in the Internet, it offers an essential blueprint and an important contribution to the research on software engineering and systems for future Internet computing.
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Internetware, covering aspects ranging from the fundamental principles and engineering methodologies to operational platforms, quality measurements and assurance and future directions. It also includes guidelines and numerous representative real-world case studies that serve as an invaluable reference resource for software engineers involved in the development of Internetware applications. Providing a detailed analysis of current trends in modern software engineering in the Internet, it offers an essential blueprint and an important contribution to the research on software engineering and systems for future Internet computing.
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