Resource aware open distributed systems

计算机越来越多地融入社会和环境。传统的服务器和台式电脑连接到从功能强大的智能手机到无线传感器网络的各种设备。联系的方式也是多种多样和复杂的。计算越来越多地在高度复杂和动态变化的环境中执行和交互。随着这些进步开始为以新的方式解决新类型的问题打开机会，计算面临的越来越大的挑战是适应这种开放环境带来的不确定性。最近出现了多个备受瞩目的会议，以探索自适应和自组织系统，一本关于面向市场的网格和公用事业计算的书刚刚出版。这种动态性的一个关键方面是环境提供计算的资源。

Computers are increasingly embedded in society and the environment. Traditional servers and desktop computers are connected to devices that range from the ever so powerful smart phones to wireless sensor networks. The ways of connecting are also varied and complex. Computations are increasingly executing in and interacting in and with highly complex and dynamically changing environments. As these advances begin to open up opportunities for solving new types of problems in novel ways, a growing challenge for computations is to adapt to the uncertainty presented by this open environment. Multiple high profile conferences have recently emerged to explore self-adapting and self-organizing systems, and a book has just been published on market-oriented grid and utility computing. A key aspect of this dynamicity is in the resources that the environment affords a computation.