Distributed Computing and Internet Technology

Section 1: Distributed Systems and Languages.- A Denotational Model for Web Services Choreography.- On Automated Testing of Description Logic Reasoners.- A Domain-Specific Language for Application-Level Checkpointing.- Section 2: Data Grid.- Data Replication Using Experience Based Trust in a Data Grid Environment.- Back-Edge Heuristic for Efficient Data Distribution in Grid Systems.- Web Users' Personality Traits Analysis.- Section 3: Security.- A New Approach for Security in MPLS Multicast Networks.- Application for a Secure Fax System.- Forward-Secure Multi-signatures.- Section 4: Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Modeling and Analysis of Mobility in MANeTs for Distributed Applications.- Scalability and Route Failure Time of a Hybrid Protocol for Identification of Node-Disjoint Paths in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Strict Priority Based QoS-Aware MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- QoS-Aware Dynamic Source Routing Using Diffserv Principles.- An Energy Efficient Communication Scheme for Distributed Computing Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Section 5: Distributed Databases.- Optimizing Distributed Joins with Bloom Filters.- Analyzing Integrity Tests for Data Caching in Mobile Databases.- Section 6: Web Applications.- A Web Based Pathfinder Service for Road Networks in India.- An Approach to Archive Remote Sensing Images Based on ActiveX and Grid Service.- Section 7: P2P Systems.- Heuristic Algorithm for Optimization of P2P-Based Public-Resource Computing Systems.- Credibility Based Reputation Calculation in P2P Networks.

Manish Parashar, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is Director of The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL). Professor Parashar is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Enrico Fermi scholarship, and is a senior member of the IEEE. In addition to publishing over a hundred technical papers in international journals and conferences, Professor Parashar has coauthored/edited three books, and has contributed to several others, in the area of parallel and distributed computing.