Friedemann Mattern, Peter Sturm: From Distributed Systems to Ubiquitous 
Computing - The State of the Art, Trends, and Prospects of Future Networked 
Systems 

We summarize trends in communication paradigms for networked systems, mention 
well-established as well as innovative software infrastructures for 
distributed systems (such as COM+, CORBA, .NET and Jini), and give an overview 
of application domains such as grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, and 
mobile agents. We then discuss issues in spontaneous networking, and we 
explain the vision of Ubiquitous Computing and its intriguing prospects.