Keynote Address -- Orchestrating Self-Managing Systems for Autonomic Computing: The Role of Standards -- Self-Configuration -- Generic Online Optimization of Multiple Configuration Parameters with Application to a Database Server -- Eos: An Approach of Using Behavior Implications for Policy-Based Self-Management -- On the Algebraic Structure of Convergence -- Peer-to-Peer Management -- An Epidemic Protocol for Managing Routing Tables in Very Large Peer-to-Peer Networks -- Towards Peer-to-Peer Traffic Analysis Using Flows -- MobiMan: Bringing Scripted Agents to Wireless Terminal Management -- Self-Optimization and Performance Management -- Dynamic Surge Protection: An Approach to Handling Unexpected Workload Surges with Resource Actions that Have Lead Times -- A Method on Multimedia Service Traffic Monitoring and Analysis -- Traffic Measurements for Link Dimensioning -- Utility Management -- Automating Enterprise Application Placement in Resource Utilities -- Managing the Performance Impact of Administrative Utilities -- Policy-Based Autonomic Storage Allocation -- Self-Protection and Access Control -- Visual-Based Anomaly Detection for BGP Origin AS Change (OASC) Events -- Context Driven Access Control to SNMP MIB Objects in Multi-homed Environments -- A Policy-Based Framework for RBAC -- Short Papers -- Management += Grid -- A Web Services Signaling Approach over Optical Networks for SAN Applications -- A Self-Configuring Sensing System for Data Centers -- Towards Autonomic Business Activity Management -- Idiosyncratic Signatures for Authenticated Execution of Management Code -- Effects of Wavelength Conversion on Self-healing Optical Networks -- Manageability and Instrumentation -- Efficient and Transparent Instrumentation of Application Components Using an Aspect-Oriented Approach -- Discovering Dynamic Dependencies in Enterprise Environments for Problem Determination -- Bringing AgentX Subagents to the Operating System Kernel Space -- Context- Awareness -- Management Challenges of Context-Aware Services in Ubiquitous Environments -- Aggregation of Composite Location-Aware Services for Mobile Cellular Networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2003, held in Heidelberg, Germany in October 2002. The 20 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 105 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on self-configuration, peer-to-peer management, self-optimization and performance management, utility management, self-protection and access control, manageability and instrumentation, and context-awareness.