Drawn from the July 2002 conference in Vienna, 130 papers represent research concerning assurance in distributed systems, multimedia network systems, mobile team support, aspect oriented programming, distributed event-based systems, resource sharing, smart appliances and wearable computing, and Web caching systems. Particular attention is given to secure and fault tolerant networks, network evaluation and management, distance learning, database and retrieval, 3DCG and visualization, QoS, mobile and wireless networks, MOTION, middleware, heterogeneous collaboration, auto-adaptive systems, architectures, content delivery, peer-to-peer systems, and home networks. Only authors are listed in the index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)