Invited Talks -- Beyond the TINA Lesson: Distributed Processing for Integrated Fixed and Mobile Communications -- Quality of Service and Service Provisioning on a Competitive Market -- The TAO of Patterns – Understanding Middleware and Component Architectures -- Session I: Electronic Auctions and Trading -- Market-Skilled Agents for Automating the Bandwidth Commerce -- Integrating Trading and Load Balancing for Efficient Management of Services in Distributed Systems -- Mapping Enterprise Roles to CORBA Objects Using Trader -- Session II: Internet-Based Service Markets -- A Scheme for Component Based Service Deployment -- Performance Modeling of a Service Provisioning Design -- Correlation DialTone-Building Internet—Based Distributed Event Correlation Services -- Session III: Quality of Service -- Programming Internet Quality of Service -- Monitoring Quality of Service across Organizational Boundaries -- Automated Allocation of Multi-provider Service Demands -- Session IV: Mobile and Distributed Services -- A Vehicular Software Architecture Enabling Dynamic Alterability of Services Sets -- JBSA: An Infrastructure for Seamless Mobile Systems Integration -- Mobtel – A Mobile Distributed Telemedical System for Application in the Neuropsychological Therapy -- Session V: Middleware Architectures -- Trade-offs in a Secure Jini Service Architecture -- Loadable Smart Proxies and Native-Code Shipping for CORBA -- A Middleware Architecture for Scalable, QoS-Aware, and Self-Organizing Global Services -- Session VI: Service Management -- Fuzzy Modeling of Cooperative Service Management -- Customer Service Management: An Information Model for Communication Services -- Specification of a Service Management Architecture to Run Distributed and Networked Systems -- Poster Session I: Mobile Agents and Applications -- Towards Context-Aware User Modeling -- Context Notification in Mobile Environment to Find the Right Person in Time -- Automated Adaptation for Mobile Computing Based on Mobile Agents -- How to Efficiently Deploy Mobile Agents for an Integrated Management -- A Scalable Location Aware Service Platform for Mobile Applications Based on Java RMI -- Poster Session II: Trends in Data- and Telecommunications -- Design-Aspects for the Integration of CORBA-Based Value Added Services and Intelligent Networks -- Experiences Building a Service Execution Node for Distributed IN Systems -- Leasing in a Market for Computing Capacity -- Virtual Malls for Web Commerce: Observations and Case Study -- A QoS Meta Model to Define a Generic Environment for QoS Management.

USM 2000 is the third event in a series of international IFIP/GI conferences on Trends in Distributed Systems. Following the venues in Aachen, Germany (1996) and Hamburg, Germany (1998), this event in Munich considers the trend towards a Universal Service Market – USM 2000. The trend towards a universal service market has many origins, e.g., the integration of telecom and data communications, the deregulation e?orts with respect to telco markets, the globalization of information, the virtualization of companies, the requirement of a short time-to-market, the advances in network technologies, the increasing acceptance of e-commerce, and the increase in - bility. This leads to new business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) environments that o?er both challenges and opportunities to enterprises and end-users. There is the need for ubiquitous services, trading, brokering and information management, for service market and business models, and for ?e- ble infrastructures for dynamic collaboration. Researchers, service vendors, and users must cooperate to set up the app- priate requirements for a universal service market and to ?nd solutions with respect to supporting platforms, middleware, distributed applications, and m- agement. The basis for these solution is a common understanding of means for de?ning, creating, implementing, and deploying the service market. Then, s- vice market makers, service aggregators, service auctioneers, ISP, ASP, BPO, and customers can freely interact in a dynamic, open, and universal market place.