"Robust Control for Uncertain Networked Control Systems with Random Delays" addresses the problem of analysis and design of networked control systems when the communication delays are varying in a random fashion. The random nature of the time delays is typical for commercially used networks, such as a DeviceNet (which is a controller area network) and Ethernet network.

The main technique used in this book is based on the Lyapunov-Razumikhin method, which results in delay-dependent controllers. The existence of such controllers and fault estimators are given in terms of the solvability of bilinear matrix inequalities. Iterative algorithms are proposed to change this non-convex problem into quasi-convex optimization problems, which can be solved effectively by available mathematical tools. Finally, to demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed design method in the book, numerical examples are given in each designed control system.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications, GridNets 2008, held in Beijing, China in October 2008.

The 19 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers address the whole spectrum of grid networks, ranging from formal approaches for grid management to case studis in optical switching.

in the algorithmic and foundational aspects, high-level approaches as well as more applied and technology-related issues regarding tools and applications of wireless sensor networks. June 2009 Jie Wu Viktor K. Prasanna Ivan Stojmenovic Message from the Program Chair This proceedings volume includes the accepted papers of the 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems. This year we int- duced some changes in the composition of the three tracks to increase cro- disciplinary interactions. The Algorithms track was enhanced to include topics pertaining to performance analysis and network optimization and renamed "- gorithms and Analysis. " The Systems and Applications tracks, previously s- arate, were combined into a single track. And a new track was introduced on "Signal Processing and Information Theory. " DCOSS 2009 received 116 submissions for the three tracks. After a thorough reviewprocess, inwhichatleastthreereviewsweresolicitedforallpapers, atotal of 26 papers were accepted. The research contributions in this proceedings span many aspects of sensor systems, including energy-e?cient mechanisms, tracking and surveillance, activity recognition, simulation, query optimization, network coding, localization, application development, data and code dissemination. Basedonthereviews, wealsoidenti?edthebestpaperfromeachtrack, which are as follows: BestpaperintheAlgorithmsandAnalysistrack: "E?cientSensorPlacement for Surveillance Problems" by Pankaj Agarwal, Esther Ezra and Shashidhara Ganjugunte. Best paper in the Applications and Systems track: "Optimal Allocation of Time-Resources for Multihypothesis Activity-Level Detection," by Gautam Thatte, ViktorRozgic, MingLi, SabyasachiGhosh, UrbashiMitra, ShriNarayanan, Murali Annavaram and Donna Spruijt-Metz. Best paper in the Signal Processing and Information Theory track: "D- tributed Computation of Likelihood Maps for Target Tracking" by Jonathan Gallagher, Randolph Moses and Emre Ertin.

OpenMP is an application programming interface (API) that is widely accepted as a de facto standard for high-level shared-memory parallel programming. It is a portable, scalable programming model that provides a simple and ?exible interface for developing shared-memory parallel applications in Fortran, C, and C++. Since its introduction in 1997, OpenMP has gained support from the - jority of high-performance compiler and hardware vendors. Under the direction of the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), the OpenMP speci?cation is undergoing further improvement. Active research in OpenMP compilers, r- time systems, tools, and environments continues to drive OpenMP evolution.To provideaforumforthedisseminationandexchangeofinformationaboutand- periences with OpenMP, the community of OpenMP researchersand developers in academia and industry is organized under cOMPunity (www.compunity.org). This organization has held workshops on OpenMP since 1999. This book contains the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on OpenMP held in Dresden in June 2009. With sessions on tools, benchmarks, applications, performance and runtime environments it covered all aspects of the current use of OpenMP. In addition, several contributions presented p- posed extensions to OpenMP and evaluated reference implementations of those extensions. An invited talk provided the details on the latest speci?cation dev- opment inside the Architecture Review Board. Together with the two keynotes about OpenMP on hardware accelerators and future generation processors it demonstrated that OpenMP is suitable for future generation systems.

1 2 Per Stenstro ..m and David Whalley 1 Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2 Florida State University, U.S.A. In January2007,the secondedition in the series of International Conferenceson High-Performance Embedded Architectures andCompilers (HiPEAC'2007)was held in Ghent,Belgium.We were fortunate to attract around70 submissions of whichonly19wereselected forpresentation.Amongthese,weaskedtheauthors ofthe?vemost highly rated contributionsto make extended versions ofthem. They all accepted to do that andtheirarticles appear in this section ofthe second volume. The?rstarticlebyKeramidas,Xekalakis,andKaxirasfocusesontheincreased power consumption in set-associativecaches.They presenta novel approach to reduce dynamicpower that leverages on the previously proposed cache decay approach that has been shown to reduce static (or leakage) power. In the secondarticlebyMagarajan,Gupta,andKrishnaswamythe focus ison techniques to encrypt data in memory to preservedata integrity. The problem with previous techniques is that the decryption latency ends up on the critical memory access path. Especially in embedded processors,caches are small and it isdi?cultto hide the decryption latency. The authors propose a compiler-based strategy that manages to reduce the impact of the decryption time signi?cantly. The thirdarticlebyKluyskensandEeckhoutfocusesondetailedarchitectural simulation techniques.It is well-known that they are ine?cientandaremedy to the problem isto use sampling.When usingsampling,onehastowarm up memory structures such as caches andbranch predictors.Thispaper introduces a noveltechnique calledBranchHistoryMatchingfore?cient warmupofbranch predictors. The fourth articlebyBhadauria,McKee,Singh, and Tyson focuses on static power consumptioninlarge caches.Theyintroduce a reuse-distance drowsy cache mechanism that issimpleas well as e?ective in reducingthestaticpower in caches.

MobiSec 2009 was the first ICST conference on security and privacy in mobile information and communication systems. With the the vast area of mobile technology research and application, the intention behind the creation of MobiSec was to make a small, but unique contribution to build a bridge between top-level research and large scale application of novel kinds of information security for mobile devices and communication.

The papers at MobiSec 2009 dealt with a broad variety of subjects ranging from issues of trust in and security of mobile devices and embedded hardware security, over efficient cryptography for resource-restricted platforms, to advanced applications such as wireless sensor networks, user authentication, and privacy in an environment of autonomously communicating objects. With hindsight a leitmotif emerged from these contributions, which corrobarated the idea behind MobiSec; a set of powerful tools have been created in various branches of the security discipline, which await combined application to build trust and security into mobile (that is, all future) networks, autonomous and personal devices, and pervasive applications

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Hybrid Systems Computation and Control (HSCC 2009) held in San Francisco, CaliforniaduringApril13-15,2009. Theannualconferenceonhybridsystems- cuses on researchin embedded, reactive systems involving the interplay between discrete switching and continuous dynamics. HSCC is a forum for academic and industrial researchers and practitioners to exchange information on the latest advancements, both practical and theoretical, in the design, analysis, control, optimization, and implementation of hybrid systems. HSCC 2009 was the 12th in a series of successful meetings. Previous versions wereheld in Berkeley(1998), Nijmegen (1999), Pittsburgh(2000), Rome (2001), PaloAlto (2002), Prague(2003), Philadelphia (2004), Zurich (2005), Santa B- bara (2006), Pisa (2007), and St. Louis (2008). HSCC 2009 was part of the 2nd Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPSWeek), whichconsistedoftheco-locationofHSCCwiththeInternationalConferenceon Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) and the Real-Time and - bedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). Through CPSWeek, the three conferences had joint invited speakers, poster sessions, and joint - cial events. In addition to the workshops sponsored by CPSWeek, HSCC 2009 sponsored two workshops: - NSV II: Second International Workshop on Numerical Software Veri?cation - HSCB 2009: Hybrid Systems Approaches to Computational Biology We would like to thank the authors of submitted papers, the Program C- mittee members, the additional reviewers, the workshop organizers, and the HSCC Steering Committee members for their help in composing a strong p- gram. We also thank the CPSWeek Organizing Committee, in particular Rajesh Gupta, for their strenuous work in handling the local arrangemen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2009, held in Seoul, Korea, in April 2009.

The 22 revised full papers and 2 revised demo papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers focus on research and practical applications of routing and forwarding, topology and delay, methods for large-scale measurements, wireless, management tools, audio and video traffic, peer-to-peer, traffic measurements, and measurements of anomalous and unwanted traffic.

"Safety-Critical Systems: Problems, Process and Practice" contains the papers presented at the seventeenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Brighton, UK, in February 2009.

The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of system safety, across all industry sectors, so the papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of current safety topics, and a blend of academic research and industrial experience. They include both recent developments in the field and discussion of open issues that will shape future progress.

The first paper reflects a tutorial - on Hazard Analysis - held on the first day of the Symposium. The subsequent 14 papers are presented under the headings of the Symposium's sessions: the Economics of Safety, Transport Safety, Safety in Society, New Challenges, Safety Assessment and Safety Standards.

The book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners working in the safety-critical systems arena.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Compiler Construction, CC 2009, held in York, UK, in March 2009 as part of ETAPS 2009, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

Following a very thorough review process, 18 full research papers were selected from 72 submissions. Topics covered include traditional compiler construction, compiler analyses, runtime systems and tools, programming tools, techniques for specific domains, and the design and implementation of novel language constructs.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2009, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in March 2009.

The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. This year's special focus is set on energy awareness. The papers are organized in topical sections on compilation technologies, reconfigurable hardware and applications, massive parallel architectures, organic computing, memory architectures, enery awareness, Java processing, and chip-level multiprocessing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2009, held in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, in January 2009.

The 49 revised full papers, presented together with 9 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 132 submissions. SOFSEM 2009 was organized around the following four tracks: Foundations of Computer Science; Theory and Practice of Software Services; Game Theoretic Aspects of E-commerce; and Techniques and Tools for Formal Verification.

HiPEAC2009wasthe fourthedition ofthe HiPEACconferenceseries.This c- ferenceseriesislargelyassociatedwiththeFP7NetworkofExcellenceHiPEAC2. The ?rst three editions of the conference in Barcelona (2005), Ghent (2007) and G] oteborg (2008) attracted a lot of interest with more than 200 attendees at the last two editions and satellite events. It is a great privilege for us to welcome you to the fourth HiPEAC conference in the beautiful, touristic city of Paphos, Cyprus. The o?erings of this conference are rich and diverse. We o?er attendees a set of seven workshopson topics that are central to the HiPEAC network roadmap: multi-cores, simulation and performance evaluation, compiler optimizations, - sign reliability, recon?gurable computing, and interconnection networks. Ad- tionally, a tutorial on design reliability is o?ered. Theconferenceprogramwasasrichaslastyear's.Itfeaturedmanyimportant andtimelytopicssuchasmulti-coreprocessors, recon?gurablesystems, compiler optimization, power-awaretechniquesand more.The conferencealso o?ered two keynote speeches: Tilak Agerwala from IBM Research presenting the view from a major industry player, and Fran, cois Bodin from CAPS-Entreprise presenting the view of a start-up. There were several social activities during the conference o?ering ample - portunity for informal interaction. These included a reception, an excursion to various archeological sites and a banquet at a traditional tavern. Thisyearwereceived97papersubmissions, ofwhich14wereco-authoredbya Program Committee member. Papers were submitted from 20 di?erent nations (approximately 46% from Europe, 15% from Asia, 32% from North America, 4% from Africa and the Middle East, and 3% from South America), which is an indicator of the global visibility of the conference."

This book presents a comprehensive compilation of practical systems engineering models. The application and recognition of systems engineering is spreading rapidly, however there is no book that addresses the availability and usability of systems engineering models. Notable among the models to be included are the V-Model, DEJI Model, and Waterfall Model. There are other models developed for specific organizational needs, which will be identified and presented in a practical template so that other organizations can learn and use them. A better understanding of the models, through a comprehensive book, will make these models more visible, embraced, and applied across the spectrum. Visit www.DEJImodel.com for model details. Features Covers applications to both small and large problems Displays decomposition of complex problems into smaller manageable chunks Discusses direct considerations of the pertinent constraints that exist in the problem domain Presents systematic linking of inputs to goals and outputs

These proceedings are compiled from revised submissions presented at RV 2008, the 8th InternationalWorkshopon Runtime Veri?cationheld onMarch30, 2008 in Budapest, Hungary, as a satellite event of ETAPS 2008. There were 27 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three ProgramCommitteemembers.Thecommitteedecidedtoacceptninepapers.This volume also includes two contributions by the invited speakers Jean Goubault- Larrecq(LSV/ENSCachan)on"ASmellofOrchids"andJohnRushby(SRI)on "RuntimeCerti?cation." We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee and the additional referees for their timely reviewing and lively participation in the s- sequent discussion-the quality of the contributions herein is due to their e?orts and expertise. We would like to thank the local organizers of ETAPS 2008 for facilitating this workshop. We would also like to thank the Technical University of Munich for their ?nancial support. Last but not least, we thank the parti- pants of RV 2008 for the stimulating discussions during the workshop and the authors for re?ecting this discussion in their revised papers. We acknowlege the e?ort of the EasyChair support team.

The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for the discussion of topics relating to computer systems and languages that are able to bootstrap, implement, modify, and maintain themselves. One property of these systems is that their implementation is based onsmall but powerfulabstractions;examples include (amongst others) Squeak/Smalltalk, COLA, Klein/Self, PyPy/Python, Rubinius/Ruby, andLisp.Suchsystemsaretheenginesoftheirownreplacement, giving researchers and developers great power to experiment with, and explore future directions from within, their own small language kernels. S3 took place on May 15-16, 2008 at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany. It was an exciting opportunity for researchers and prac- tioners interested in self-sustaining systems to meet and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development. S3 provided an - portunity for a community to gather and discuss the need for self-sustainability in software systems, and to share and explore thoughts on why such systems are needed and how they can be created and deployed. Analogies were made, for example, with evolutionary cycles, and with urban design and the subsequent inevitable socially-driven change. TheS3participantsleftwithagreatersenseofcommunityandanenthusiasm for probing more deeply into this subject. We see the need for self-sustaining systems becoming critical not only to the developer's community, but to e- users in business, academia, learning and play, and so we hope that this S3 workshop will become the ?rst of many.

at the distributed virtual Program Committee meeting. Each paper's review recomm- dationswere carefully checkedfor consistency; in many instances, the Vice Chairs read the papers themselves when the reviews did not seem suf?cient to make a decision. Throughout the reviewing process, I received a tremendous amount of help and advice from General Co-chair Manish Parashar, Steering Chair Viktor Prasanna, and last year's Program Chair Srinivas Aluru; I am very grateful to them. My thanks also go to the Publications Chair Sushil Prasad for his outstanding efforts in putting the proceedings together. Finally, I thank all the authors for their contributions to a hi- quality technical program. I wish all the attendees a very enjoyable and informative meeting. December 2008 P. Sadayappan Message from the General Co-chairs and the Vice General Co-chairs On behalf of the organizers of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computing(HiPC), it is our pleasureto present these proceedingsand we hopeyou will ?nd them exciting and rewarding. TheHiPCcallforpapers, onceagain, receivedanoverwhelmingresponse, attracting 317submissionsfrom27countries.P.Sadayappan, theProgramChair, andthe Program Committee worked with remarkablededication to put together an outstandingtechnical program consisting of the 46 papers that appear in these proceedings.

th We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 11 Asia-Paci?c Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2008) which was held in Beijing, China, during October 22-24, 2008. TheOrganizingCommittee(OC)selectedthethemeofthisyear'ssymposium as "Challenges for Next-Generation Network Operations and Service Mana- ment. " Research and development on next-generation networks (NGNs) have been carried out over the last few years and we are already seeing their - ployment and operations in many parts of Asia-Paci?c countries. We are also beginning to experience new and interesting services that utilize these NGNs. We are certain that we will see more deployment of NGNs and NGN services in the next few years. Thus, the operations and management of NGNs and their services are very important to the network operators and service providers. At the same time, they are also concerned about new and more e?ective ways of performing the operations and management. This year, the APNOMS call for papers received 195 paper submissions from 19di?erentcountries, includingcountriesoutsidetheAsia-Paci?cregion(Europe, Middle-East, North and South America). Each paper was carefully reviewed by at least three international experts. Based on review scores, the APNOMS 2008 Technical ProgramCommittee discussed the selection of papers, and selected 43 high-quality papers (22. 1% of submissions) as full papers and 34 papers as short papers. Accepted papers were arrangedinto ten technical sessions and two short paper sessions (poster presentation).

Recent advances in cutting-edge wireless communication and computing te- nologies have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous infrastructure and infrastructureless wireless networks. These emerging networks are enabling a broad spectrum of applications ranging from critical infrastructure prot- tion and security, to environment monitoring, health care, and quality of life. The need to deal with the complexity and rami?cations of the ever-growing mobile users and services, however, is intensifying the interest in the devel- ment of sound fundamental principles, novel algorithmic approaches, rigorous and repeatable design methodologies, and systematic evaluation frameworks for next-generation wireless networks. The Third International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA) was held in Dallas, TX, USA during October 26-28. The objective of WASA is to address the research and development e?orts of va- ous issues in the area of algorithms, systems and applications for current and next-generationinfrastructureandinfrastructurelesswirelessnetworks. Thec- ference is structured to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners, from the academic, industrial, and governmental sectors, with a unique opportunity to discussandexpresstheirviews onthe currenttrends, challenges, andstate-- the-artsolutionsaddressingvariousissuesrelatedtocurrentandnext-generation wireless networks. Following a rigorous review process, the Program Committee selected an outstanding set of 35 papers for publication in the proceedings and oral presentations at the conference. The program of WASA 2008 also included three keynote talks by Lionel Ni, Ty Znati, and Jie Wu along with 15 invited paper

These are the proceedings of IPTComm 2008 - the Second Conference on Pr- ciples, Systems andApplications ofIP Telecommunications-heldinHeidelberg, Germany, July 1-2, 2008. The scope of the conference included recent advances in the domains of convergent networks, VoIP security and multimedia service environments for next generation networks. The conference attracted 56 s- missions, of which the Program Committee selected 16 papers for publication. The review process followed strict standards: each paper received at least three reviews. We would like to thank all Program Committee members and external reviewers for their contribution to the review process. The conference attracted attendees from academia and industry. Its excellence is re?ected in the quality of the contributed papers and invited talks. Additional industry talks and - plied demonstrations assured a synergy between academic and applied research. We would also like to acknowledge and thank our sponsors, many of whom s- portedtheconferencegenerously: NEC, AT&T, Codenomicon, IPTEGO, EADS, Cellcrypt, MuDynamics, SIP Forum and EURESCOM, Finally, we would like to thank all the researchers and authors from all over the world who submitted their work to the IPTComm 2008 conferenc

On behalf of the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on N- work Operations and Management (CNOM), Manweek 2008 Organizing C- mittee, and members of the IPOM Technical Program Committee, it is our pleasureto present the proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management(IPOM 2008),heldaspartofManweek2008duringSeptember 22-26, 2008, on Samos, Greece. ThecurrentInternetisalarge-scaledistributedsystemwhosesub-components suchasaddressing,protocols,algorithms,services,need to scalein time withthe rapid growth of Internet tra?c volumes. Moreover, there is a high level of int- action between di?erent subcomponents of the Internet sometimes in undesired ways - for example, denial of service attacks can jeopardize the operation of a commercial network. With these challenges in place, operations and mana- ment of IP networks have become increasingly important. This necessitates a good understanding of the emerging technical and scienti?c problems in the current Internet, and lessons from such understanding will be particularly - portant for future Internet design and management. Building on the success of the previous events, we wanted IPOM 2008 to focus on network management challenges for the current Internet as well as on future Internet design.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2008, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in September 24-25, 2008.

The 17 papers presented in this volume, together with abstracts of 2 invited papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The topics covered are software performance engineering; stochastic process algebra and SANs; performance query specification and measurement; computer and communications networks; queueing theory and Markov chains; and applications.

Wewelcomeyoutothejointproceedingsofthe8thNEW2AN2008(NextGene- tionTeletra?candWired/WirelessAdvancedNetworking)andthe1struSMART 2008conferencesheldin St. Petersburg, Russia onSeptember 1-5,2008. This year NEW2AN features signi?cant contributions to various aspects of networking. The topics presented encompass several layers of communication networks: from the physical layer to transport protocols. In particular, issues of QoS in wireless and IP-based multi-service networks are dealt with. Cross-layer optimization and tra?c characterization are also addressed within the program. It is also worth mentioning the emphasis on wireless networks, including, but not limited to, cellular networks, wireless local area networks, personal area networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and sensor networks. The NEW2AN 2008 call for papers attracted 60 papers from 19 countries, resulting in an acceptance ratio of 35%. With the help of the excellent Technical Program Committee and a number of associated reviewers, the best 21 hi- quality papers were selected for publication. The conference was organized in 7 single-track sessions. We wish to thank the Technical Program Committee members of each of the conferences and the associated reviewers for their hard work and important contribution to the conference. The ?rst Russian Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2008, was the ?rst conference in Russia to address this topic. It aimed to attract academic and industrial researchers to an emerging area of Smart Spaces that creates c- pletely new opportunities for making fully-customized applications and services for the users. The conference was a meeting place for leading experts from top a?liationsaroundthe world.Itattractedactiveparticipationanda strongint- estfromRussianattendees, whohaveagoodreputationforhigh-qualityresearch and business in innovative service creation and applications developme

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 13th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security--ESORICS 2008--held October 6-8, 2008 in Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain, and hosted by the University of Malaga, C- puter Science Department. ESORICS has become the European research event in computer security. The symposium started in 1990 and has been organized on alternate years in different European countries. From 2002 it has taken place yearly. It attracts an international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. In response to the call for papers, 168 papers were submitted to the symposium. These papers were evaluated on the basis of their significance, novelty, and technical quality. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Comm- tee. The Program Committee meeting was held electronically, holding intensive d- cussion over a period of two weeks. Finally, 37 papers were selected for presentation at the symposium, giving an acceptance rate of 22%.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008), which was held on Samos, Greece during September 22-26 as part of the 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). As in the previous three years, the Manweek umbrella - lowed an international audience of researchers and scientists from industry and academia - who are researching and developing management systems - to share views and ideas and present their state-of-the-art results. The other events co-located with Manweek 2008 were the 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2008), the 8th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM2008), the Third IEEE International Workshop on Modeling Autonomic CommunicationsEnvironments(MACE2008),the4thIEEE/IFIPInternational Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM 2008) andthe5thInternationalWorkshoponNext-GenerationNetworkingMiddleware (NGNM 2008). Under this umbrella, MMNS again proved itself as a top public venue for dissemination of results and intellectual collaboration with speci?c emphasis on the management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-artmanagementof convergedmultimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures.