Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing

Wireless Sensor Networks.- Binding Multiple Applications on Wireless Sensor Networks.- Model-Aided Metadata Management for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Availability Considerations for Wireless Sensor Grids.- An Energy-Aware Position-Based Routing Strategy.- Session 8: Grid Applications 1.- of Grid Computing Application Projects at the NASA Earth Science Technology Office.- Modeling Message-Passing Overhead on NCHC Formosa PC Cluster.- Evaluation of the Device Driver Availability in Dawning4000A.- HyMPI - A MPI Implementation for Heterogeneous High Performance Systems.- Session 9: Data Grid.- Performance Improvement by Data Management Layer in a Grid RPC System.- Effective Dynamic Replica Maintenance Algorithm for the Grid Environment.- A Lightweight Cyclic Reference Counting Algorithm.- Distributed Garbage Collection for Mobile Actor Systems: The Pseudo Root Approach.- Session 10: Pervasive Applications 1.- A Grid-Based Node Split Algorithm for Managing Current Location Data.- Cicada: A Highly-Precise Easy-Embedded and Omni-Directional Indoor Location Sensing System.- Searchable Virtual File System: Toward an Intelligent Ubiquitous Storage.- A Collaborative Privacy-Enhanced Alibi Phone.- Session 11: Semantic Web / Semantic Grid.- The Semantic Grid: Requirements, Infrastructure and Methodology.- MPLS Inter Domain Services Routing Architecture and Model Based on P2P Semantic Grid.- Semantic Metadata Models in References Sharing and Retrieval System SemreX.- Clustering Large Scale of XML Documents.- Session 12: Grid Load Balancing.- QoS-Driven Grid Resource Selection Based on Novel Neural Networks.- Towards Decentralized Load Balancing in a Computational Grid Environment.- A Resource-Autonomy Based Monitoring Architecture for Grids.- Machine Learning-Based Adaptive Load Balancing Framework for Distributed Object Computing.- Session 13: Wireless Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks.- VWMAC: An Efficient MAC Protocol for Resolving Intra-flow Contention in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- A Coloring Based Backbone Construction Algorithm in Wireless Ad Hoc Network.- Route Error Reporting Schemes for On-Demand Routing in 6LoWPAN.- Are Low PANs a PAN or an Internet of PANs?.- Session 14: Grid Applications 2.- Ensuring Secure and Robust Grid Applications - From a Formal Method Point of View.- Supporting the OpenMP Programming Interface on Teamster-G.- Key Techniques of Software Sharing for on Demand Service-Oriented Computing.- Embedding a Middleware for Networked Hardware and Software Objects.- Session 15: Mobile Computing.- Mechanism of Authenticating a MAP in Hierarchical MIPv6.- Reducing Binding Updates in High Speed Movement Environment Based on HMIPv6.- A Low-Overhead Non-block Checkpointing Algorithm for Mobile Computing Environment.- Applying Dynamic Handoff to Increase System Performance on Wireless Cellular Networks.- Session 16: Pervasive Applications 2.- A Paradigm of a Pervasive Multimodal Multimedia Computing System for the Visually-Impaired Users.- Context-Aware Adaptation for Media Delivery in Pervasive Computing Environment.- CAMPS: A Middleware for Providing Context-Aware Services for Smart Space.- A Novel Power Management Scheme for E-Textiles.