IPCUC 2001

This mini-workshop was held on the campus of the University of Central Florida in December 2001 on topics related to process coordination and ubiquitous computing. Process coordination and workflow management have been a topic of considerable interest to the business community for some time. Automation of business processes, the control of factory floor assembly processes, and office automation have contributed to increased productivity and are partially responsible for the positive economical developments we have witnessed during the past decades. With the advent of computational, data, and service grids, the computer science community is paying increasingly more attention to the theoretical as well as practical aspects of coordination. A grid environment favors resource sharing, as well as intricate collaborative efforts. A grid is an open system, a collection of autonomous administrative domains. The successful completion of any task in a grid environment requires careful coordination and is subject to multiple optimization constrains; entities with different and possibly conflicting long term objectives must cooperate with one another.