Exploring New Frontiers of Theoretical Informatics: IFIP 18th World Computer Congress TC1 3rd International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (TCS2004) 22-27 August 2004 Toulouse, France

In recent years, IT application scenarios have evolved in very innovative ways. Highly distributed networks have now become a common platform for large-scale distributed programming, high bandwidth communications are inexpensive and widespread, and most of our work tools are equipped with processors enabling us to perform a multitude of tasks. In addition, mobile computing (referring specifically to wireless devices and, more broadly, to dynamically configured systems) has made it possible ...