Constitutes the proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2005, held in November/December 2005. The papers are organized in topical sections on security and privacy, peer-to-peer computing, XML and service discovery, distribution and real time processing, and other sections.

Securing Publish/Subscribe for Multi-domain Systems.- ABACUS: A Distributed Middleware for Privacy Preserving Data Sharing Across Private Data Warehouses.- Causeway: Support for Controlling and Analyzing the Execution of Multi-tier Applications.- MINERVA?: A Scalable Efficient Peer-to-Peer Search Engine.- An Optimal Overlay Topology for Routing Peer-to-Peer Searches.- Combining Flexibility and Scalability in a Peer-to-Peer Publish/Subscribe System.- WReX: A Scalable Middleware Architecture to Enable XML Caching for Web-Services.- Inflatable XML Processing.- INDISS: Interoperable Discovery System for Networked Services.- Dual-Quorum Replication for Edge Services.- Frugal Event Dissemination in a Mobile Environment.- RTZen: Highly Predictable, Real-Time Java Middleware for Distributed and Embedded Systems.- Composite Subscriptions in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.- Scrivener: Providing Incentives in Cooperative Content Distribution Systems.- MEDYM: Match-Early with Dynamic Multicast for Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Networks.- Generic Middleware Substrate Through Modelware.- Deep Middleware for the Divergent Grid.- Opportunistic Overlays: Efficient Content Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- I-RMI: Performance Isolation in Information Flow Applications.- Matrix: Adaptive Middleware for Distributed Multiplayer Games.- Overlay Networks – Implementation by Specification.- Adaptive Load Diffusion for Stream Joins.- Network Processing of Documents, for Documents, by Documents.- Fault-Tolerant Middleware and the Magical 1%.

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