Reinventing Computing for Real Time -- Applying Service-Oriented Development to Complex Systems: BART Case Study -- Towards Dynamic Partitioning of Reactive System Behavior: A Train Controller Case Study -- The GridLite DREAM: Bringing the Grid to Your Pocket -- DARX - A Self-healing Framework for Agents -- Nautical Predictive Routing Protocol (NPRP) for the Dynamic Ad-Hoc Nautical Network (DANN) -- A Factory to Design and Build Tailorable and Verifiable Middleware -- A Concurrency Abstraction for Reliable Sensor Network Applications -- Outdoor Distributed Computing with Split Smart Messages -- Towards a Real-Time Coordination Model for Mobile Computing -- Dynamic System Reconfiguration Via Service Composition for Dependable Computing -- A Component-Based Approach for Constructing High-Confidence Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems -- Providing Dependable Services with Unreliable SoCs—The DECOS Approach -- Modeling and Verification of Cooperative Self-adaptive Mechatronic Systems -- Architectural Design, Behavior Modeling and Run-Time Verification of Network Embedded Systems -- Approaches for Inheritance in the TMO Programming Scheme.