Innovative Internet Computing Systems: International Workshop IICS 2001 Ilmenau, Germany, June 21-22, 2001 Proceedings

Nowadays, the Internet is the most commonly used medium for the exchange of data in different forms. Presently, over 60 million machines have access to the Internet and to its resources. However, the Internet is also the largest distributed system offering different computational services and possibilities not only for cluster computing. If the needs of modern mobile computing and multimedia systems are taken into account, it becomes clear that modern methods must ensure an effective develo...