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Résumé :
The explosive growth of Internet-based applications and the proliferation of networking technologies have transformed not only the computer science and engineering fields but also has affected the areas of computational science and commercial Internet applications. This has provided researchers with an opportunity to explore new Internet-oriented software technologies designed to expand research and application opportunities in multimedia, commerce, and the scientific and high-performance computing applications community. Two emerging technologies - agents and active networks - provide increased programmability to bring new services to Internet-based applications.br/ The chapters in this volume are based on presentations at the Second Annual Workshop on Active Middleware Services. The volume draws on research results in active networks, mobile and intelligent agents, software tools for high-performance distributed computing, network operating systems, and application programming models and environments.br/ emActive Middleware Services/em is appropriate for engineers and researchers in the areas of network centric computing and distributed information systems, as well as for application and tool developers and users of information systems.

Sommaire:
I: Active Middleware Services.- Co-operative Adaptation Between End Points.- On Active Grid Middleware.- AMnet: Efficient Heterogeneous Group Communication Through Rapid Service Creation.- II: Mobile Agents Services and Environments.- CATALINA: A Smart Application Control and Management Environment.- Active Monitoring in Grid Environments Using Mobile Agent Technology.- A Cohesive, Secure Mechanism for Structuring Distributed Agent Populations in Managed Networks.- Enhanced ORB-based Active Networking.- III: Active Networks.- Enabling Active Networks Services on A Gigabit Routing Switch.- Tamanoir: A High Performance Active Networks Framework.- Calibrating an Active Network Node.- Securing the Node of an Active Network.- Logistical Networking: Sharing More Than the Wires.- IV: Active Resource Management.- At-Speed Prototyping of PROTEAN Architecture.- Resource-Aware Middleware for Active and Configurable Distributed Services.- LGC: An Active Congestion Control Mechanism.- IITELView: A Network Management System Using Mobile Agents.- V: Active Environments and Applications.- A Proposed Jini Infrastructure to Support a Java Message Passing Implementation.- Automating Component Integration in a Distributed Problem Solving Environment.- An Evaluation of Economy-based Resource Trading and Scheduling on Computational Power Grids for Parameter Sweep Applications.- Author Index.