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The following topics are dealt with: self-adaptation; fundamentals and design of adaptive systems; adaptive mechanisms; metrics for adaptive and self-adaptive systems; work in progress; patterns at work; software and system management patterns; antipatterns, security and ubiquitous patterns; Web services; ubiquitous and pervasive services; society and business services; artificial intelligence and cognition; agent-based adaptive systems; autonomous systems and autonomy-oriented computing; computational intelligence services; large scale computing strategies; technology oriented computing; mechanism oriented computing; medima and graphics; image, anima and speech; and trust models.