Autonomy, Incentives and Trust.- A Role-Based Infrastructure for the Management of Dynamic Communities.- PSH: A Private and Shared History-Based Incentive Mechanism.- Cooperation under Scarcity: The Sharer s Dilemma.- Overlays and Virtualization.- A Distributed Certification System for Structured P2P Networks.- N2N: A Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN.- Secure Sharing of an ICT Infrastructure through Vinci.- Load Balancing and Fault Recovery.- Statistical Behaviors of Distributed Transition Planning.- Service Load Balancing with Autonomic Servers: Reversing the Decision Making Process.- An Architecture for Supporting Network Fault Recovery Management.- Network Traffic Engineering and Analysis.- RLTE: Reinforcement Learning for Traffic-Engineering.- SNMP Trace Analysis Definitions.- Convergent Behavior.- Dynamic Consistency Analysis for Convergent Operators.- A Theory of Closure Operators.- PhD Workshop.- Entwined Influences of Users Behaviour and QoS: A Multi-model Approach.- Business-Driven Management of Policies in DiffServ Networks.- Token-Based Payment in Dynamic SAML-Based Federations.- Conceptual Integration of Flow-Based and Packet-Based Network Intrusion Detection.- Towards Resilient Community Wireless Mesh Networks.- Resource Management of Disruption Tolerant Networks.- Design of an IP Flow Record Query Language.- Enabling Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Services.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security, AIMS 2008, held in Bremen, Germany, in June 2008, under the auspices of IFIP.
The 13 revised full papers presented together with 8 papers of the AIMS PhD workshop were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions to the main conference and 12 papers for the PhD workshop respectively. The papers are discussing topics such as autonomy, incentives and trust, overlays and virtualization, load balancing and fault recovery, network traffic engineering and analysis, and convergent behavior of distributed systems.