Utility Computing.. 15 conf., Distributed Systems.. Operations and Management, DSOM 2004

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems, Operations and Management, DSOM 2004, held in Davis, CA, USA in November 2004.

The 21 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on management architecture; service level mamagement; policy management; automated management; analysis and reasoning; trust and security; and implementation, instrumentation, and experience.