Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems 7th IFIP WG 6.1 I

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2007, held in Paphos, Cyprus in June 2007. The DAIS conference was held as a joint event in federati

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Jadwiga Indulska Kerry Raymond (Eds.)

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems 7th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2007 Paphos, Cyprus, June 6-8, 2007 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Jadwiga Indulska School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering The University of Queensland St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Kerry Raymond Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology 126 Margaret Street, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007927413 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, C.2.4, I.2.11, D.4, H.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains the proceedings of the Seventh IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS 2007) held in Paphos, Cyprus, June, 6-8, 2007. Distributed applications and interoperable systems have become an integral part of everyday living, part of the socio-economic ecosystem of our human environment. With such interdependence between society and software, distributed software applications must