Architecture of Computing Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2007, held in Zurich, Switzerland in March 2007. The 20 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of research topics related to basic technology, architecture, and application of computing systems with a strong focus on system aspects of pervasive computing and self organization techniques in both organic and autonomic computing