Proceedings of the 2002 Joint ACM-ISCOPE Conference on Java Grande 2002, Seattle, Washington, USA, November 3-5, 2002

First of all, we wish to extend a warm welcome to everyone participating in the Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2002 Conference. This is the second year in which ACM Java Grande and ISCOPE, the International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments, have joined forces, with a merged Call for Papers, Program Committee, and ACM Proceedings.The first ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE Conference took place at Stanford University, Palo Alto, in 2001. This second joint conference is the seventh in a series of meetings aimed at exploring the use of the Java programming language for "Grande" applications - a range of applications that includes, but is not limited to, scientific and engineering computing, data intensive business computing, and high-performance network computing. The series started with the Java Grande workshops, which were held very successfully in Syracuse in 1996, Las Vegas in 1997, and Palo Alto in 1998. The 1999 and 2000 ACM Java Grande Conferences took place in San Francisco. This 2002 Java Grande - ISCOPE is also the fifth of the series of ISCOPE meetings. ISCOPE 97, 98, and 99 proceedings are available from Springer as LNCS volumes 1343, 1505, and 1732, respectively. As ISCOPE broadened its focus during the years, it became natural to combine ACM Java Grande and ISCOP.This year, we are holding ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE in Seattle, Washington, in conjunction with the 17th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications - OOPSLA 2002. OOPSLA is the premier forum for bringing together participants to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of topics related to object-oriented programming. We believe this arrangement has been very beneficial to Java Grande - ISCOPE.The Joint ACM Java Grande - ISCOPE 2002 Conference focuses on object-orientation in a broad range of topics (including parallelism, communication, distribution, and high-performance applications and systems) and Java in the broad area of high-performance computing (including engineering and scientific applications, simulations, and data-intensive applications). This year a total of 70 papers were submitted, a 16% increase compared to the first joint conference. Of these, 24 (~35%) were selected as regular papers for plenary presentation at the conference and publication in these proceedings. An additional 15 submissions were selected as poster presentations. Single-page abstracts for the posters are included in these proceedings. At the beginning of the conference, we are also offering a set of relevant tutorial lectures.