Distributed processing has a strong theoretical foundation, but many day-to-day practitioners make limited use of the advantages this theory can give them. The result includes unreliable systems with obscure and intermittent failures that can cost time, money and in extreme cases, lives. Reliable construction of distributed and concurrent systems must incorporate theory in practice.

This book provides a concise presentation of the theory closely linked to the practical realisation of these concepts. This easy-to-follow textbook focuses on practical issues of building working...

The TOOLS conference series started in 1989 and, over the following 15 years, held 45 sessions: TOOLS EUROPE, TOOLS USA, TOOLS PACIFIC, TOOLS CHINA and TOOLS EASTERN EUROPE. TOOLS played a major role in the spread of object-oriented and component technologies; many seminal software conceptsnowtakenforgrantedwere?rstdiscussedatTOOLS, takingadvantage of the informal, application-oriented, technically intense and marketing-free - mosphere of the conference. Invited speakers have included countless luminaries of science and industry. Afteraninterruptionoffouryears, TOOLSstartedagaininJune2007,...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (SPC 2006), held April 19 21, 2006 in York, UK. The conference focused on methods, tools, principles, and practices for assessing and achievingsecurityinapervasiveenvironment.Newsecurityconceptswerediscussed, in domains and applications such as handheld devices, mobile phones, smartcards, RFID chips, and smart labels, as well as new, emerging technological spaces. The conf- ence also presented work on fundamental themes such as risk identi?cation and mi- gation, security policies...