A Fresh Look at Petri Net Extensions -- Modelling of Communication Platforms Using Algebraic High-Level Nets and Their Processes -- Modeling Revisited -- A Conceptual Framework and Experimental Workbench for Architectures -- Virtual Computing: The Emperor’s New Clothes?- Linked Compute Units and Linked Experiments: Using Topology and Orchestration Technology for Flexible Support of Scientific Applications -- Pattern-Based Context Establishment for Service-Oriented Architectures -- Cloud Blueprints for Integrating and Managing Cloud Federations -- Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment with OpenRichServices -- An Architecture for Dynamic Service-Oriented Computing in Networked Embedded Systems -- Location-Based Services for Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching.

This festschrift volume, published in honor of Bernd Krämer on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 11 contributions by close scientific companions. Covering topics like Petri nets and theoretical computer science, software and service engineering, cloud computing, and e-learning, the articles presented span the range of the scientific work of Bernd Krämer.