Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing — ARCS 2002 : International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems Karlsruhe Germany April 8–12 2002 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems ARCS 2002 held in Karlsruhe Germany in April 2002. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on context aware systems system aspects networking processor architecture and middleware and verification