Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, held in June 2005. The papers in this book are organized in topical sections on context and location, interoperability architectures, methodological aspects, configurable communication, and more.

Mastering interoperability in a computing environment consisting of different operating systems and hardware architectures is a key requirement which faces system engineers building distributed information systems. Distributed applications are a necessity in most central application sectors of the contemporary computerized society, for instance, in office automation, banking, manufacturing, telecommunication and transportation. This book focuses on the techniques available or under development, with the goal of easing the burden of constructing reliable and maintainable interoperable...