Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems : 13th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2013, Held As Part of the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2013, Florence, Italy, June 3-5, 2013, Proc

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2013, held in Florence, Italy, in June 2013, as part of the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2013. The 12 revised full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers present state-of-the-art research results and case studies in the area of distributed applications and interoperable systems focussing on cloud computing, replicated storage, and peer-to-peer computing. Front Matter....Pages - Semantically Aware Contention Management for Distributed Applications....Pages 1-14 FITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud....Pages 15-28 Network Forensics for Cloud Computing....Pages 29-42 Dynamic Deployment of Sensing Experiments in the Wild Using Smartphones....Pages 43-56 AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling....Pages 57-70 Strategies for Generating and Evaluating Large-Scale Powerlaw-Distributed P2P Overlays....Pages 71-84 Ambient Clouds: Reactive Asynchronous Collections for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Applications....Pages 85-98 Bandwidth Prediction in the Face of Asymmetry....Pages 99-112 A Scalable Benchmark as a Service Platform....Pages 113-126 Failure Analysis and Modeling in Large Multi-site Infrastructures....Pages 127-140 Evaluating the Price of Consistency in Distributed File Storage Services....Pages 141-154 An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases....Pages 155-168 EZ: Towards Efficient Asynchronous Protocol Gateway Construction....Pages 169-174 Autonomous Adaptation of Cloud Applications....Pages 175-180 Toward Unified and Flexible Security Policies Enforceable within the Cloud....Pages 181-186 Towards Decentralised Workflow Scheduling via a Rule-Driven Shared Space....Pages 187-192 Strengthening Consistency in the Cassandra Distributed Key-Value Store....Pages 193-198 Distributed Architecture for a Peer-to-Peer-Based Virtual Microscope....Pages 199-204 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2014, held in Berlin, Germany, in June 2014. They deal with cloud computing, replicated storage, and large-scale systems.