Performance I -- Caching Dynamic Web Content: Designing and Analysing an Aspect-Oriented Solution -- Non-intrusive Performance Management for Computer Services -- Composition -- True and Transparent Distributed Composition of Aspect-Components -- Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-adaptation of Web Services Compositions -- Management I -- Living with Nondeterminism in Replicated Middleware Applications -- Trading Off Resources Between Overlapping Overlays -- Publish/Subscribe Technology -- Efficient Probabilistic Subsumption Checking for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems -- Dynamic Load Balancing in Distributed Content-Based Publish/Subscribe -- Decentralized Message Ordering for Publish/Subscribe Systems -- Databases -- DBFarm: A Scalable Cluster for Multiple Databases -- Queryll: Java Database Queries Through Bytecode Rewriting -- Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing -- Contory: A Middleware for the Provisioning of Context Information on Smart Phones -- Efficient Semantic Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments -- Security -- A Middleware System for Protecting Against Application Level Denial of Service Attacks -- Generalized Access Control of Synchronous Communication -- Datamining Techniques -- FMware: Middleware for Efficient Filtering and Matching of XML Messages with Local Data -- Synergy: Sharing-Aware Component Composition for Distributed Stream Processing Systems -- Performance II -- Enforcing Performance Isolation Across Virtual Machines in Xen -- Low-Overhead Message Tracking for Distributed Messaging -- Management II -- Utility-Driven Proactive Management of Availability in Enterprise-Scale Information Flows -- Model Driven Provisioning: Bridging the Gap Between Declarative Object Models and Procedural Provisioning Tools.