Platforms -- Adaptive Content-Based Routing in General Overlay Topologies -- AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices -- Exo-Leasing: Escrow Synchronization for Mobile Clients of Commodity Storage Servers -- Subscription Subsumption Evaluation for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems -- Software Engineering -- Diagnosing Distributed Systems with Self-propelled Instrumentation -- Multithreading Strategies for Replicated Objects -- A Component Framework for Java-Based Real-Time Embedded Systems -- DeXteR – An Extensible Framework for Declarative Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems -- Performance Comparison of PHP and JSP as Server-Side Scripting Languages -- Debugging and Testing Middleware with Aspect-Based Control-Flow and Causal Patterns -- System Management -- Enabling Resource Sharing between Transactional and Batch Workloads Using Dynamic Application Placement -- Biologically-Inspired Distributed Middleware Management for Stream Processing Systems -- pMapper: Power and Migration Cost Aware Application Placement in Virtualized Systems -- Burstiness in Multi-tier Applications: Symptoms, Causes, and New Models -- Towards End-to-End Quality of Service: Controlling I/O Interference in Shared Storage Servers -- Components and System Algorithms and Properties -- SODA: An Optimizing Scheduler for Large-Scale Stream-Based Distributed Computer Systems -- Toward Massive Query Optimization in Large-Scale Distributed Stream Systems -- QoS Allocation Algorithms for Publish-Subscribe Information Space Middleware -- Profiling and Modeling Resource Usage of Virtualized Applications -- Prism: Providing Flexible and Fast Filesystem Cloning Service for Virtual Servers -- Moara: Flexible and Scalable Group-Based Querying System.