Trends in distributed systems: towards a universal service market

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USM 2000 is the third in a series of international conferences on Trends in Distributed Systems, following events in Aachen and Hamburg. This conference in Munich focuses on the shift towards a Universal Service Market (USM 2000), driven by various factors such as the integration of telecom and data communications, deregulation of telecom markets, globalization of information, virtualization of companies, and advancements in network technologies. These changes necessitate a quick time-to-market and have fostered the growth of e-commerce, leading to new business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) environments that present both challenges and opportunities for enterprises and end-users. There is a pressing need for ubiquitous services, trading, brokering, and information management, along with the development of service market and business models, and flexible infrastructures for dynamic collaboration. To address these needs, researchers, service vendors, and users must work together to establish the requirements for a universal service market and identify solutions related to supporting platforms, middleware, distributed applications, and management. A shared understanding of how to define, create, implement, and deploy the service market is essential. This will enable service market makers, aggregators, auctioneers, ISPs, ASPs, BPOs, and customers to engage freely in a dynamic, open, and universal marketplace.