Invited Lecture -- The Intelligent Infrastructure for E-business -- Context Aware Applications -- Middleware Support for Context-aware Multimedia Applications -- Capeus: An Architecture for Context-aware Selection and Execution of Services -- Sentient Computing for Everyone -- The Active Guidebook -- Interoperability -- Software Connectors and Their Role in Component Deployment -- An Extension to a Corba Trader to Support XML Service Descriptions -- On the Construction of Distributed RM-ODP Specifications -- Short Papers I -- Aspectix: A Quality-aware, Object-based Middleware Architecture -- Providing Messaging Interoperability in FIPA Communication Architecture -- Architectural Design and Performance Aspects of Developing Applications Based on Middleware -- Managing Evolution in Telecommunication Systems -- Mobility Management for Providing QoS in Local Area Wireless Networks -- Invited Lecture -- Information Access is Fine, But Who is Going to Pay? -- Applications -- A Framework for Aspect-oriented Multiparty Coordination -- An Open Architecture for Pervasive Systems -- Design and Evaluation of A QoS Provisioning Service -- Mobile Agents -- Integrating Mobile Agents and Neural Networks for Proactive Management -- Second Price Auctions -- Specification and Verification of a Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol for Agent-based Applications -- Monitoring -- Widening Traditional Management Platforms for Managing Corba Applications -- Live Upgrade Techniques for Corba Applications -- Raccoon - An Infrastructure for Managing Access Control in CORBA -- Short Papers II -- Tool-assisted Security Assessment of Distributed Applications -- Service Oriented Application Management - Do Current Techniques Meet the Requirements? -- Java Class Loading Techniques in the Harness Metacomputing Framework -- Designing and Implementing an Object-relational Data Warehousing System -- Distributed Transactions for ODMG Federated Databases.