| Optimizing server placement in hierarchical grid environments | p. 1 |
| Using OGRO and CertiVeR to improve OCSP validation for grids | p. 12 |
| Efficient target detection for RNA interference | p. 22 |
| Smart instant messenger in pervasive computing environments | p. 32 |
| Negotiation strategies for grid scheduling | p. 42 |
| An enhanced grid scheduling with job priority and equitable interval job distribution | p. 53 |
| Average schedule length and resource selection policies on computational grids | p. 63 |
| A performance-based approach to dynamic workload distribution for master-slave applications on grid environments | p. 73 |
| The peering problem in tree-based master/worker overlays | p. 83 |
| MUREX : a mutable replica control scheme for structured peer-to-peer storage systems | p. 93 |
| The subscription-cover based routing algorithm in content-based publish/subscribe | p. 103 |
| Alliatrust : a trustable reputation management scheme for unstructured P2P systems | p. 115 |
| A fault-tolerant distributed scheme for grid information services | p. 126 |
| A market-oriented model for grid service management | p. 137 |
| Pricing Web services | p. 147 |
| A performance improvement of Web service system based on the probability distribution characteristics | p. 157 |
| An optimal scheduling algorithm for an agent-based multicast strategy on irregular networks | p. 165 |
| Methods for partitioning data to improve parallel execution time for sorting on heterogeneous clusters | p. 175 |
| Detecting unaffected message races in parallel programs | p. 187 |
| A combined technique of non-uniform loops | p. 197 |
| Neighbor-aided multicast protocol for streaming transmission on MANETs | p. 207 |
| An entropy-based stability QoS multicast routing protocol in ad hoc network | p. 217 |
| On the performance of a hybrid routing protocol for Blueweb : a Bluetooth-based multihop ad hoc network | p. 227 |
| An adaptive and scalable resource advertisement and discovery strategy for mobile ad hoc networks | p. 237 |
| Binding multiple applications on wireless sensor networks | p. 250 |
| Model-aided metadata management for wireless sensor networks | p. 259 |
| Availability considerations for wireless sensor grids | p. 269 |
| An energy-aware position-based routing strategy | p. 279 |
| Introduction of grid computing application projects at the NASA Earth Science Technology Office | p. 289 |
| Modeling message-passing overhead on NCHC Formosa PC cluster | p. 299 |
| Evaluation of the device driver availability in Dawning4000A | p. 308 |
| HyMPI - a MPI implementation for heterogeneous high performance systems | p. 314 |
| Performance improvement by data management layer in a grid RPC system | p. 324 |
| Effective dynamic replica maintenance algorithm for the grid environment | p. 336 |
| A lightweight cyclic reference counting algorithm | p. 346 |
| Distributed garbage collection for mobile actor systems : the pseudo root approach | p. 360 |
| A grid-based node split algorithm for managing current location data | p. 373 |
| Cicada : a highly-precise easy-embedded and omni-directional indoor location sensing system | p. 385 |
| Searchable virtual file system : toward an intelligent ubiquitous storage | p. 395 |
| A collaborative privacy-enhanced alibi phone | p. 405 |
| The semantic grid : requirements, infrastructure and methodology | p. 415 |
| MPLS inter domain services routing architecture and model based on P2P semantic grid | p. 427 |
| Semantic metadata models in references sharing and retrieval system SemreX | p. 437 |
| Clustering large scale of XML documents | p. 447 |
| QoS-driven grid resource selection based on novel neural networks | p. 456 |
| Towards decentralized load balancing in a computational grid environment | p. 466 |
| A resource-autonomy based monitoring architecture for grids | p. 478 |
| Machine learning-based adaptive load balancing framework for distributed object computing | p. 488 |
| VWMAC : an efficient MAC protocol for resolving intra-flow contention in wireless ad hoc networks | p. 498 |
| A coloring based backbone construction algorithm in wireless ad hoc network | p. 509 |
| Route error reporting schemes for on-demand routing in 6LoWPAN | p. 517 |
| Are low PANs a PAN or an Internet of PANs? | p. 527 |
| Ensuring secure and robust grid applications - from a formal method point of view | p. 537 |
| Supporting the OpenMP programming interface on teamster-G | p. 547 |
| Key techniques of software sharing for on demand service-oriented computing | p. 557 |
| Embedding a middleware for networked hardware and software objects | p. 567 |
| Mechanism of authenticating a MAP in hierarchical MIPv6 | p. 577 |
| Reducing binding updates in high speed movement environment based on HMIPv6 | p. 587 |
| A low-overhead non-block checkpointing algorithm for mobile computing environment | p. 597 |
| Applying dynamic handoff to increase system performance on wireless cellular networks | p. 609 |
| A paradigm of a pervasive multimodal multimedia computing system for the visually-impaired users | p. 620 |
| Context-aware adaptation for media delivery in pervasive computing environment | p. 634 |
| CAMPS : a middleware for providing context-aware services for smart space | p. 644 |
| A novel power management scheme for E-textiles | p. 654 |
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