Semantically Aware Contention Management for Distributed Applications -- FITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud -- Network Forensics for Cloud Computing -- Dynamic Deployment of Sensing Experiments in the Wild Using Smartphones -- AJITTS: Adaptive Just-In-Time Transaction Scheduling -- Strategies for Generating and Evaluating Large-Scale Powerlaw-Distributed P2P Overlays -- Ambient Clouds: Reactive Asynchronous Collections for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Applications -- Bandwidth Prediction in the Face of Asymmetry -- A Scalable Benchmark as a Service Platform -- Failure Analysis and Modeling in Large Multi-site Infrastructures -- Evaluating the Price of Consistency in Distributed File Storage Services -- An Effective Scalable SQL Engine for NoSQL Databases -- EZ: Towards Efficient Asynchronous Protocol Gateway Construction -- Autonomous Adaptation of Cloud Applications -- Toward Unified and Flexible Security Policies Enforceable within the Cloud -- Towards Decentralised Workflow Scheduling via a Rule-Driven Shared Space -- Strengthening Consistency in the Cassandra Distributed Key-Value Store -- Distributed Architecture for a Peer-to-Peer-Based Virtual Microscope.