New Worker-Centric Scheduling Strategies for Data-Intensive Grid Applications Steve Y. Ko (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign), Ramsés Morales (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Creating Private Network Overlays for High Performance Scientific Computing Edward Walker (University of Texas at Austin) AVMEM - Availability-Aware Overlays for Management Operations in Non-cooperative Distributed Systems Ramsés Morales (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brian Cho (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) SIPHoc: Efficient SIP Middleware for Ad Hoc Networks Patrick Stuedi (ETH Zurich), Marcel Bihr (ETH Zurich), Alain Remund (ETH Zurich), Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich) R-OSGi: Distributed Applications through Software Modularization Jan S. Rellermeyer (ETH Zurich), Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich), Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich) Middleware Support for Adaptive Dependability Lorenz Froihofer (Vienna University of Technology), Karl M. Goeschka (Vienna University of Technology) Johannes Osrael (Vienna University of Technology) R-Capriccio: A Capacity Planning and Anomaly Detection Tool for Enterprise Services with Live Workloads Qi Zhang (Microsoft), Ludmila Cherkasova (HP Labs), Guy Mathews (HP Labs), Wayne Greene (HP Labs), Evgenia Smirni (College of William and Mary) XenSocket: A High-Throughput Interdomain Transport for Virtual Machines Xiaolan Zhang (IBM Research), Suzanne McIntosh (IBM Research), Pankaj Rohatgi (IBM Research), John Linwood Griffin (BAE Systems) A Cost-Effective Distributed File Service with QoS Guarantees Kien Le (Rutgers University), Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers University), Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University) Vector-Field Consistency for Ad-hoc Gaming Nuno Santos (INESC-ID/Technical University of Lisbon), Luís Veiga (INESC-ID/Technical University of Lisbon), Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID/Technical University of Lisbon) Interactive Resource-Intensive Applications Made Easy H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla (University of Toronto), Niraj Tolia (Carnegie Mellon University), Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto), M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University), David O'Hallaron (Carnegie Mellon University) Programming Wireless Sensor Networks with the TeenyLime Middleware Paolo Costa (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano), Amy L. Murphy (FBK-IRST), Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento) Garbage Collecting The Grid: a Complete DGC for Activities Denis Caromel (INRIA), Guillaume Chazarain (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, CNRS - I3S - Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis), Ludovic Henrio (INRIA) Argos, an Extensible Personal Application Server Arne Munch-Ellingsen (University of Tromsø), Dan Peder Eriksen (University of Tromsø) Anders Andersen (University of Tromsø), iManage: Policy-Driven Self-Management for Enterprise-Scale Systems Vibhore Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology), Brian F. Cooper (Yahoo! Research), Greg Eisenhauer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Karsten Schwan (Georgia Institute of Technology) Compadres: A Lightweight Component Middleware Framework for Composing Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems with Real-time Java Jie Hu (University of California, Irvine), Shruti Gorappa (University of California, Irvine), Juan A. Colmenares (University of California, Irvine), Raymond Klefstad (University of California Irvine) CLASP: CoLlaborating, Autonomous Stream Processing Systems Michael Branson (IBM Systems and Technology Group), Fred Douglis (IBM TJ Watson Research Center), Brad Fawcett (IBM Systems and Technology Group), Zhen Liu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY), Anton Riabov (IBM Watson Research), Fan Ye (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Consistent and Scalable Cache Replication for Multi-Tier J2EE Applications Francisco Perez-Sorrosal (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Marta Patiño-Martinez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Ricardo Jimenez-Peris (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), Bettina Kemme (McGill University) Correlation-Based Content Adaptation For Mobile Web Browsing Iqbal Mohomed (University of Toronto), Adin Scannell (University of Toronto), Nilton Bila (University of Toronto), Jin Zhang (University of Toronto), Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto) A Utility-Aware Middleware Architecture for Decentralized Group Communication Applications Jianjun Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Lakshmish Ramaswamy (University of Georgia), Gong Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Calton Pu (Georgia Institute of Technology) A Policy Management Framework for Content-based Publish/Subscribe Middleware Alex Wun (University of Toronto), Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto) Hybrid Dissemination: Adding Determinism to Probabilistic Multicasting in Large-Scale P2P Systems Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich), Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)