This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2013, held in Malaga, Spain, in September 2013. The 11 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The volume also contains 3 papers from the industrial track. Service-oriented computing including Web services as its most important implementation platform has become the most important paradigm for distributed software development and application. The papers illustrate how cloud computing aims at enabling mobility as well as device, platform and/or service independence by offering centralized sharing of resources. It promotes interoperability, portability and security standards, and raises a completely new set of security issues.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers presented at five international workshops held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008, in Sydney, Australia, in December 2008.

The volume contains 41 reviewed and improved papers presented at the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA 2008), the Second International Workshop on Web APIs and Services Mashups (Mashups 2008), the First International Workshop on Quality-of-Service Concerns in Service Oriented Architectures (QoSCSOA 2008), the First Workshop on Enabling Service Business Ecosystems (ESBE 2008), and the Third International Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2008). The papers offer a wide range of hot topics in service-oriented computing: management and analysis of SOA processes; development of mashups; QoS and trust models in service-oriented multi-agent systems; service ecosystems, service standardization, and evolutionary changes of Web services; governance aspects of SOA, enterprise models and architectures.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, held in Chicago, IL, USA in December 2006.

The 34 revised full papers and 16 short papers presented together with 12 industrial and demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on service mediation, grid services and scheduling, mobile and P2P services, service composition, adaptive services, data intensive services, service management: registry, reliability, XML processing, service modeling, business services: transaction, licensing, and SLA assessment, service discovery and selection, quality of service (policy, transaction and monitoring), business service modeling, service assembly, vision papers, experience with deployed SOA, SOA architectures, early adoption of SOA technology.

After two successful MATES conferences in Erfurt 2003 and 2004, the 3rd G- man conference on Multi-agent System Technologies (MATES 2005) took place in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2005, and was co-located with the 28th German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2005). Building onotheragent-relatedeventsinGermanyinthepast, andorganized by the GI German Special Interest Group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence, the MATES conference series aims at promoting the theory and applications of agentsandmultiagentsystems.Incorporatingthe9thInternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2005), the topics of interest for MATES 2005 also covered the ?elds of intelligent information agents and systems for the Internet and the (Semantic) Web. As in recent years, MATES 2005 provided a distinguished, lively and int- disciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers of agent technology, to present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Accordingly, the topics of MATES 2005 covered the whole range from the theory to applications of age- and multiagent technology. The technical program included a total of 24 sci- ti?c talks, and demonstrations of selected running agent systems, and both the MATES 2005 Best Paper and the CIA 2005 System Innovation awards

Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas:

E-Government:
E-Government Models and Processes,
E-Governance,
Service Provisioning.

E-Business:
Infrastructures and Marketplaces,
M-Commerce,
Purchase and Payment.

E-Commerce:
Value Chain Management,
E-Business Architectures and Processes,
E-Business Models.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TREC'98, held in Hamburg, Germany, in June 1998.
The book presents 19 revised full papers selected from a total of 75 submissions. While focussing mainly on technological issues, the book also takes into account important social, administrative, regulatory, and legal aspects. The papers are organized in sections on business over the Internet, security and payment, middleware and brokerage, interorganisational workflow management, and agent technology.

This volume contains the technical papers presented in the workshops, PhD Symposium and EU Projects Track which took place at the 8th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2020, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2020: 1st International Workshop on Edge Adoption and Migration, EdgeWays 2020, 16th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services, WESOACS 2020, ESOCC 2020 PhD Symposium, ESOCC 2020 EU Projects Track. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held in a virtual format. The 17 full papers and 2 short papers were reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers focus on specific topics in service-oriented and cloud computing domains such as limits and/or advantages of existing cloud solutions, future internet technologies, efficient and adaptive deployment and management of service-based applications across multiple clouds, novel cloud service migration practices and solutions, digitization of enterprises in the cloud computing era, federated cloud networking services.

Building the E-Service Society is a state-of-the-art book which deals with innovative trends in communication systems, information processing, and security and trust in electronic commerce, electronic business, and electronic government. It comprises the proceedings of I3E2004, the Fourth International Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, and E-Government, which was held in August 2004 as a co-located conference of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress in Toulouse, France, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

The book contains recent results and developments in the following areas:

E-Government:
E-Government Models and Processes,
E-Governance,
Service Provisioning.

E-Business:
Infrastructures and Marketplaces,
M-Commerce,
Purchase and Payment.

E-Commerce:
Value Chain Management,
E-Business Architectures and Processes,
E-Business Models.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2015, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in October 2015. The 40 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote panel were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: adoption; big and open data; e-business, e-services,, and e-society; and witness workshop.

This book contains the proceedings of two of the IFIP conferences that took place at the IFIP World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia. The proceedings of each conference are allocated separate parts in this book each with their own editors. E-Government and E-Services (EGES) page 3 Marijn Janssen / Winfried Lamersdorf Global Information Systems Processes (GISP) page 183 Jan Pries-Heje / Michael Rosemann Organization E-Government and E-Services (EGES 2010) EGES Co-chairs Marijn Janssen Delft, The Netherlands Winfried Lamersdorf Hamburg, Germany Lalit Sawhney Bangalore, India Leon Strous Helmond, The Netherlands EGES Reviewers Agarwal Ashok ACS Technologies Ltd., Bhoopal, India Mark Borman University of Sydney, Australia Erwin Fielt Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Ernest Foo Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia M.P. Gupta Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Paul Henman The University of Queensland, Australia Ralf Klischewski German University, Cairo, Egypt Christine Leitner Donau-Universit. at Krems, Austria Miriam Lips Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Zoran Milosevic Deontic, Brisbane, Australia Oystein Sabo University of Agder, Norway Jochen Scholl University of Washington, Seattle, USA Leif Skiftenes University of Agder, Norway Weerakoddy Vishanth Brunel University Business School, West London, UK Dirk Werth DFKI, Saarbruc . . ken, Germany Maria Wimmer University Koblenz-Landau, Germany EGES Subreviewers Alexandra Chapko, Andreas Emrich and Marc Graessle German Research Center for Arti?cial Intelligence, Saarbruc .. ken, Germany Kristof Hamann, Kai Jander, Ante Vilenica and Sonja Zaplata University of Hamburg, Germany Global Information Systems Processes (GISP 2010) GISP Co-chairs Jan Pries-Heje Roskilde University, Denmark

Die KiVS 2001 spannt einen Bogen von multimedialen Anwendungen uber Middleware-Konzepte und Protokolle bis hin zu modernen Netztechniken mit ihren jeweiligen Mobilitats- und Sicherheitsfragen. Die thematische Ausrichtung reicht dabei von Mobilen Kommunikationssystemen uber Fragen der Dienstgute, des Dienstmanagements und des Verkehrsmanagements bis hin zur Sicherheit in Rechnernetzen, Multimedia, Groupware und Workflow-Managementsystemen."

Der Zugang zu Datenbanken in verteilten Systemen ist das Thema dieses Buches, sicherlich eines der brennendsten Themen in der gegenwartigen DV-Praxis. Dem technisch interessierten Leser werden wesentliche Orientierungsmoglichkeiten erfolgreicher DB-Praxis in verteilten und offenen Systemen aufgezeigt. Nach Darstellung der Grundlagen und Alternativen geht es u. a. um die Themen Remote Database Access (RDA), systemtechnische Unterstutzung von Transaktionen (TP) sowie allgemeine Dienste in verteilten Systemen. Aktuelle Projekte werden vor dem Hintergrund industrieller und internationaler Standardisierungsgremien (ECMA, ISO, X/Open etc.) vorgestellt. Das Buch empfiehlt sich nicht nur als Standardwerk fur technisch interessierte Praktiker (Ingenieure, Informatiker), sondern auch zur Verwendung in entsprechenden Lehrveranstaltungen."

Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand als Dissertation am Fachbereich Informatik der Universitat Hamburg; die Disputation fand am 15. Marz 1985 in Hamburg statt. Ich danke besonders dem Betreuer der Promotion und Hauptgutachter der Disser- tation, Herrn Professor Dr. J. W. Schmidt, jetzt Universitat Frankfurt, fUr die langjahrige Forderung und fUr die in ensive Zusammenarbeit, die zu dieser Arbeit gefUhrt hat. Den Mitarbeitern (auch den ehemaligen und externen) der Forschungs- gruppe 'Datenbanken und Informationssysteme' am Fachbereich Informatik der Universitat Hamburg (jetzt Frankfurt) danke ich fUr die anregende und nette Ar- beitsumgebung. Oem Korreferenten an der Universitat Hamburg, Herrn Professor Dr. W. Brauer, danke ich fUr sein Interesse und die kontinuierliche UnterstUtzung meiner Arbeit seit der Diplomarbeit. Oem Deutschen Akademi schen Austauschdi enst (DAAD) danke ich fUr di e Bereit- stellung eines Jahresstipendiums in die USA. SchlieJ3lich danke ich der IBM Deutschland, vertreten durch Herrn Dr. A. Blaser, der ein auswartiges Korreferat Ubernahm, und Herrn Dr. G. MUller yom Wissenschaftlichen Zentrum Heidelberg, fUr die groJ3zUgige UnterstUtzung beim Entstehen dieser Arbeit.