Table of Contents

Performance Evaluation of Communication Based Systems.- GSPN Models of Dual-Band GSM Networks.- Time in Message Sequence Chart Specifications and How to Derive Stochastic Petri Nets.- Safe System-Level Diagnosis for Selected Fault Models.- Fault-Tolerance Mechanisms for a Parallel Programming System — A Responsiveness Perspective.- Foundations and Applications of Communication Based Systems.- Run Time Modification of Algebraic High Level Nets and Algebraic Higher Order Nets using Folding and Unfolding Construction.- Compositional Specification of Distributed Systems by Distributed Graph Transformation.- Specifying, Analyzing and Programming Communication Systems in Maude.- Towards Dynamic Shaping.- A Personal, Historical Perspective of Parallel Programming for High Performance.- Distributed Environments for Communication Based Systems.- Automatic Distribution in Pangaea.- Multiphase Consensus Finding in Collaborative Problem Solving.- Efficient and Secure Information Sharing in Distributed, Collaborative Environments.- A Constraint Programming Framework for AI Planning.- Atomic Broadcast in a Byzantine Model.