Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems, e.g., of large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. These statements could be proved by the technical program of the IWSOS 2006. Sixteen high-quality papers were selected by a thorough review process out of more than 70 submissions from 21 different countries. The technical program of the IWSOS 2006 was particularly covering application-oriented topics like: the dynamics of structured and unstructured overlays; self-organization in grids, peer-to-peer networks, wireless environments, and autonomic computing; and the application of self-organization for enhancing network management and routing. The program of the IWSOS 2006 has been supplemented, besides the social events and tutorials, by a poster session on the role of "Self-Organization in European Next Generation Internet" and also by a Technical Discussion on "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems". The two parts of the technical report on hand is used to make the contributions to the poster session (Part I) and technical discussion (Part II) available to a broader community.
Nathalie Vollstaedt