Table of Contents

• Keynote AddressYasushi Wakahara.
• An Adaptive Maintenance of Hierarchical Structure in Ad Hoc Networks and Its EvaluationTomoyuki Ohta, Shinji Inoue, Yoshiaki Kakuda, Kenji Ishida, Kaori Maeda. 7-13 [doi]
• Assuring Message Delivery in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Packet Erasure RecoveryLi Shu, Dorothy C. Poppe. 14-22 [doi]
• Spy: A Method to Secure Clients for Network ServicesRichard J. Lipton, S. Rajagopalan, Dimitrios N. Serpanos. 23-28 [doi]
• Enhancing the Security of Block Ciphers with the Aid of Parallel Substitution Box ConstructionPanayotis E. Nastou, Yannis C. Stamatiou. 29-34 [doi]
• Quantifying Effect of Network Latency and Clock Drift on Time-Driven Key SequencingGeoffrey G. Xie, Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Levin. 35-42 [doi]
• Reducing the Cost of the Critical Path in Secure Multicast for Dynamic GroupsSandeep S. Kulkarni, Bezawada Bruhadeshwar. 43-48 [doi]
• Extended Minimal Routing in 2-D Meshes with Faulty BlocksJie Wu, Zhen Jiang. 49-56 [doi]
• PFTPD: An FTP Proxy System to Assure the Freshness of FilesJunichi Funasaka, Masato Bito, Kenji Ishida. 57-62 [doi]
• Stability of Autonomous Decentralized Flow Control Schemes in High-Speed NetworksMasaki Aida, Chisa Takano. 63-68 [doi]
• Service Oriented Communication Technology for Achieving AssuranceTakanori Ono, Khaled Ragab, Naohiro Kaji, Kinji Mori. 69-74 [doi]
• An Internet Auction Method using Decentralized Selection ServersJunichi Funasaka, Kenji Ishida, Kitsutaro Amano, Yukiyoshi Jutori. 75-82 [doi]
• An XML-Based Dynamic Network Management System Using Web TechnologyKwoun Sup Youn, Choong Seon Hong. 83-88 [doi]
• Modeling of Train Control System and a Method of Assurance EvaluationMasayuki Matsumoto, Tadao Tsurumaki, Dai Watanabe, Kinji Mori. 89-94 [doi]
• Adaptive Checkpointing for Time Warp Technique with a Limited Number of CheckpointsRyo Suzuki, Satoshi Fukumoto, Kazuhiko Iwasaki. 95-100 [doi]
• Step-by-Step System Construction Technique with Assurance Technology -Evaluation Measure for Step-by-Step System Construction-Kazuo Kera, Keisuke Bekki, Kinji Mori. 101-110 [doi]
• Implementing a Distributed Lecture-on-Demand Multimedia Presentation SystemLawrence Y. Deng, Timothy K. Shih, Sheng-Hua Shiau, Wen-Chih Chang, Yi-Jen Liu. 111-115 [doi]
• An Integrated Distance Learning System Capable of Supporting Interactions for Asynchronous Distance LearningShimon Sakai, Tsunenobu Narahara, Naoaki Mashita, Hiroshi Shigeno, Ken-ichi Okada, Yutaka Matsushita. 116-121 [doi]
• Multimedia Communication Environment for Children, Handicapped, and Elderly PeopleTetsuya Hirotomi, Nikolay N. Mirenkov. 122-130 [doi]
• Mobile Agent Model for Distributed SystemsTakao Komiya, Hiroyuki Ohsida, Makoto Takizawa. 131-136 [doi]
• Mobile Angent-Based Transcoding FunctionsKoji Hashimoto, Yoshitaka Shibata, Norio Shiratori. 137-141 [doi]
• An Agent Based Matchmaking System Using Knowledge BaseLeonard Barolli, Akio Koyama, Zixue Cheng, Norio Shiratori. 142-148 [doi]
• Minimizing Protocol Processing in Multimedia Servers - Implementation and Evaluation of Network Level Framing -Pål Halvorsen, Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel. 149-155 [doi]
• Protocol for Synchronizing Multimedia Objects Exchanged in a Group of ProcessesSeiichi Hatori, Kenichi Shimamura, Makoto Takizawa. 156-161 [doi]
• OCEAN: Object Communication Environment for Arbitrary NetworkKatsuya Nakagawa, Masaru Kawakita, Koji Sato, Mitsuru Minakuchi, Osamu Tsumori, Keitaro Hanada, Toru Chiba, Isao Shirakawa. 162-168 [doi]
• Personal Web SpaceYangjun Chen, Tony Liu, Paul G. Sorenson. 169-175 [doi]
• The Design of Interactive Negotiation Agent on the WebChuan-Feng Chiu, Timothy K. Shih, Pei-Ying Wu, Sheng-Hua Shiau. 176-181 [doi]
• Persistent Cache in Cooperative Search EngineNobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara, Yoshifumi Sakai, Hideki Mori. 182-190 [doi]
• Content-Based Trademark Retrieval System Using a New Region Based Shape Description Method: The Distance-Angle Pair-Wise HistogramShinfeng D. Lin, B. Y. Hsu, X. L. Yang. 191-195 [doi]
• Experiences with Evaluating System QoS and Channel Performance on Media-On-Demand SystemsWonjun Lee, Jaideep Srivastava. 196-201 [doi]
• Combining Region-Based Differential and Matching Algorithms to Obtain Accurate Motion Vectors for Moving Object in a Video SequenceChieh-Ling Huang, Yuh-Ren Choo, Pau-Choo Chung. 202-207 [doi]
• Scene Context Dependent Key Frame Selection In StreamingAnthony G. Nguyen, Jenq-Neng Hwang. 208-216 [doi]
• A Transmission Service with Three-Queue Management for a Distributed Remote Monitoring EnvironmentJui-Fa Chen, Wei-Chuan Lin, Chi-Ming Chung, Zhi Yu Jian, Wen-Chen Hu. 217-221 [doi]
• Network Management Based On PC Communication Platform With SNMP AND MOBILE AGENTSJae-Kyu Chun, Ki-Yong Cho, Seok-Hyung Cho, Young-Woo Lee, Young-Il Kim. 222-227 [doi]
• An Improved a-Shapes Algorithm for Geometric ReconstructionBin Shyan Jong, Tsong Wuu Lin, Wen Hao Yang, Kun Shyan Jong. 228-232 [doi]
• Empirical Study of Inter-Arrival Packet Times and Packet LossesTakayuki Kushida, Yoshitaka Shibata. 233-240 [doi]
• A Novel Joint Rate Control Scheme for the Coding of Multiple Real Time Video ProgramsZengguo Li, Ce Zhu, Feng Pan, Genan Feng, Xiaokang Yang, Si Wu, Nam Ling. 241-245 [doi]
• A Scalable Technique for VCR-Like Interactions in Video-on-Demand ApplicationsMounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu. 246-251 [doi]
• XExplainer: A Tool for Generating Descriptive Text from DatabaseJi-Eun Roh, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee. 252-257 [doi]
• The Numeric Indexing For Music DataYu-lung Lo, Shiou-jiuan Chen. 258-266 [doi]
• An Efficient Method to Improve the Quality of Watermarked Cover ImageWen-Shyong Hsieh, Chuan-Fu Wu, Jen-Yi Huang, Jyh-Long Lin, Buh-Yun Sher. 267-271 [doi]
• Implementation of ECC/ECDSA Cryptography Algorithms Based on Java CardJin-Hee Han, Young-Jin Kim, Sung-Ik Jun, Kyo-Il Chung, Chang-Ho Seo. 272-278 [doi]
• Multi-User Interactive 3D Presentation System via the InternetJames Sablatura, Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang. 279-284 [doi]
• Interactive Traditional Japanese Crafting System using Virtual Reality Technique over Highspeed NetworkAkihiro Miyakawa, Masamitsu Sugimoto, Mikako Hosokawa, Yoshitaka Shibata. 285-289 [doi]
• Visualizing External Inter-Component InterfacesRobert R. Roxas, Nikolay N. Mirenkov. 290-295 [doi]
• A Visual Editor for Multimedia Application DevelopmentAngela Guercio, Timothy Arndt, Shi-Kuo Chang. 296-304 [doi]
• A Survey of Transport Layer Protocols Suited for Real-Time Data Delivery over Diffserv-Capable NetworksYoko Noda, Tatsuhiko Sakai, Hiroshi Shigeno, Ken-ichi Okada, Yutaka Matsushita. 305-310 [doi]
• A Scalable Architecture for Differentiated ServicesC. L. Lee, J. R. Chen, Y.-C. Chen. 311-316 [doi]
• A Fair Admission Control for Large-Bandwidth Multimedia ApplicationsYuan-Cheng Lai, Yu-Dar Lin. 317-322 [doi]
• Specification and Verification of Quality Requirements in Distributed Multimedia PresentationsCostas Mourlas. 323-330 [doi]
• A Replica Distribution Method with Consideration of the Positions of Mobile Hosts on Wireless Ad-Hoc NetworksMasahiro Tamori, Susumu Ishihara, Takashi Watanabe, Tadanori Mizuno. 331-335 [doi]
• Control of Multimedia Communication over Wireless NetworkKazuo Takahata, Norihiko Uchida, Yoshitaka Shibata. 336-340 [doi]
• Performance Evaluation of Mobile Agent on Its Living Time and Target Existing Rates in ServersMisako Urakami, Tetsuya Shigeyasu, Hiroshi Matsuno. 341-346 [doi]
• Mobility Management of IP-Based Multi-tier Network Supporting Mobile Multimedia Communication ServicesYing-Hong Wang, Chih-Hsiao Tsai, Hui-Min Huang. 347-356 [doi]
• Nokia Requirements and User Story for the Project MOTIONKatja Nykänen, Mikko Tarkiainen. 357-358 [doi]
• Peer-to-Peer for Collaborative ApplicationsGianpaolo Cugola, Gian Pietro Picco. 359-364 [doi]
• TWSAPI: A Generic Teamwork Services Application Programming InterfaceEngin Kirda, Gerald Reif, Harald Gall, Pascal Fenkam. 365-372 [doi]
• A Physically Grounded Approach to Coordinate Movements in a TeamLetizia Leonardi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli. 373-378 [doi]
• Architecture of an Agent-Based Negotiation MechanismJen-Hsiang Chen, Rachid Anane, Kuo-Ming Chao, Nick Godwin. 379-384 [doi]
• Exploiting Logical Mobility in Mobile Computing MiddlewareStefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Emmerich. 385-388 [doi]
• Considerations and Requirements for Tools Supporting Mobile TeamsMario Pichler, Thomas Hofer, Gerhard Leonhartsberger. 389-390 [doi]
• Mobility of Context for Project TeamsSchahram Dustdar. 391-395 [doi]
• A Universal Messaging Service for Users and GroupsFredrik Wilhelmsen. 396-400 [doi]
• Mobile Adaptive Applications for Ubiquitous Collaboration in Heterogeneous EnvironmentsAllan Meng Krebs, Ivan Marsic, Bogdan Dorohonceanu. 401-407 [doi]
• Trust-Aware CooperationZoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth. 408-409 [doi]
• Adaptive Applications for Mobile Heterogenous DevicesPaola Inverardi, G. Marinelli, Fabio Mancinelli. 410-418 [doi]
• Separating the Navigational AspectAntonia M. Reina Quintero, Jesus Torres Valderrama. 419-423 [doi]
• Managing Interaction Concerns in Web-Service SystemsMary Stearns, Giacomo Piccinelli. 424-429 [doi]
• Separation of Concerns in Agent Applications by RolesGiacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli. 430-438 [doi]
• An Architectural Approach to Auto-Adaptive SystemsLuis Filipe Andrade, José Luiz Fiadeiro. 439-444 [doi]
• An Adaptive Run Time Manager for the Dynamic Integration and Interaction Resolution of FeaturesJianxiong Pang, Lynne Blair. 445-450 [doi]
• Dynamic Support for Distributed Auto-Adaptive ApplicationsAna Lúcia de Moura, Cristina D. Ururahy, Renato Cerqueira, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez. 451-458 [doi]
• Distributing Objects with Multiple AspectsHafedh Mili, Hamid Mcheick, Salah Sadou. 459-464 [doi]
• Separating Introspection and Intercession to Support Metamorphic Distributed SystemsEric P. Kasten, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt. 465-472 [doi]
• Using Aspect Oriented Programming to Build a Portable Load Balancing ServiceErik Putrycz, Guy Bernard. 473-480 [doi]
• Composing Distributed Systems from Reusable Aspects of BehaviorPertti Kellomäki. 481-486 [doi]
• Towards Dynamic Configuration of Distributed ApplicationsMireille Blay-Fornarino, Anne-Marie Pinna-Dery, Michel Riveill. 487-492 [doi]
• Aspect Oriented Programming Using ActorsAngelo Furfaro, Libero Nigro, Francesco Pupo. 493-502 [doi]
• A Versatile Event-Based Communication Model for Generic Distributed InteractionsFrédéric Peschanski. 503-510 [doi]
• On QoS-Aware Publish-SubscribeFilipe Araújo, Luís Rodrigues. 511-515 [doi]
• Towards an Access Control Mechanism for Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe SystemsZoltán Miklós. 516-524 [doi]
• Efficient Distribution-Based Event FilteringAnnika Hinze, Sven Bittner. 525-532 [doi]
• Textual Information Dissemination in Distributed Event-Based SystemsManolis Koubarakis. 533-538 [doi]
• Predicate Matching and Subscription Matching in Publish/Subscribe SystemsGhazaleh Ashayer, Hubert Ka Yau Leung, Hans-Arno Jacobsen. 539-548 [doi]
• Multimedia Customisation Using an Event Notification ProtocolRicky Robinson, Andry Rakotonirainy. 549-554 [doi]
• Real-Time Processing of Media Streams: A Case for Event-Based InteractionViktor S. Wold Eide, Frank Eliassen, Olav Lysne, Ole-Christoffer Granmo. 555-562 [doi]
• Mobile Push: Delivering Content to Mobile UsersIvana Podnar, Manfred Hauswirth, Mehdi Jazayeri. 563-570 [doi]
• Coordination Architecture for Evolvable Event-Based SystemsLuis Filipe Andrade, José Luiz Fiadeiro. 571-572 [doi]
• Exploiting an Event-Based System to Develop a Distributed E-Commerce InfrastructureElisabetta Di Nitto, Massimiliano Pianciamore. 573-574 [doi]
• The Impact of Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor NetworksBhaskar Krishnamachari, Deborah Estrin, Stephen B. Wicker. 575-578 [doi]
• Parallel Implementation of Composite EventsMichal Shmueli, Opher Etzion. 579-580 [doi]
• Towards the Observation of Spatial Events in Distributed Location-Aware SystemsMartin Bauer, Kurt Rothermel. 581-582 [doi]
• An Event-Driven System for Distributed Multimedia ApplicationsAlésio Pfeifer, Cristina D. Ururahy, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez, Roberto Ierusalimschy. 583-584 [doi]
• Taxonomy of Distributed Event-Based Programming SystemsRené Meier, Vinny Cahill. 585-588 [doi]
• Event-Driven Coordination of Real-Time ComponentsTheophilos A. Limniotes, Costas Mourlas, George A. Papadopoulos. 589-594 [doi]
• Tuple-Based Coordination Models in Event-Based ScenariosMirko Viroli, Alessandro Ricci. 595-601 [doi]
• Specifying and Detecting Composite Events in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe SystemsSimon Courtenage. 602-610 [doi]
• Hermes: A Distributed Event-Based Middleware ArchitecturePeter R. Pietzuch, Jean Bacon. 611-618 [doi]
• Subscription Summaries for Scalability and Efficiency in Publish/Subscribe SystemsPeter Triantafillou, Andreas A. Economides. 619-624 [doi]
• Event Systems: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It TooPatrick Th. Eugster, Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerraoui, Sidath B. Handurukande. 625-632 [doi]
• Distributed Supervisory System with Cooperative Multi-Agent FEPJuichi Kosakaya, Aki Kobayashi, Katsunori Yamaoka. 633-638 [doi]
• STEAM: Event-Based Middleware for Wireless Ad Hoc NetworkRené Meier, Vinny Cahill. 639-644 [doi]
• Behavior and Performance of Message-Oriented Middleware SystemsPhong Tran, Paul Greenfield, Ian Gorton. 645-654 [doi]
• A Collaborative Infrastructure for Scalable and Robust News DeliveryWerner Vogels, Christopher Ré, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman. 655-659 [doi]
• Switchboard: Secure, Monitored Connections for Client-Server CommunicationEric Freudenthal, Lawrence Port, Tracy Pesin, Edward Keenan. 660-665 [doi]
• Resource-Sharing and Service Deployment in Virtual Data CentersSven Graupner, Vadim E. Kotov, Holger Trinks. 666-674 [doi]
• Intrinsic References in Distributed SystemsKave Eshghi. 675-680 [doi]
• Efficient Massive Sharing of Content among PeersPeter Triantafillou, Chryssani Xiruhaki, Manolis Koubarakis. 681-685 [doi]
• A Demand based Algorithm for Rapid Updating of ReplicasJesús Acosta-Elías, Leandro Navarro-Moldes. 686-694 [doi]
• Toward a Peer-to-Peer Shared Virtual RealityJoaquín Keller, Gwendal Simon. 695-700 [doi]
• U-P2P: A Peer-to-Peer System for Description and Discovery of Resource-Sharing CommunitiesAloke Mukherjee, Babak Esfandiari, Neal Arthorne. 701-705 [doi]
• Rheeve: A Plug-n-Play Peer-to-Peer Computing PlatformWang-kee Poon, Jiannong Cao. 706-716 [doi]
• Interaction of All IP Mobile Internet Devices with Networked Appliances in a Residential HomeJuhani Latvakoski, Pekka Pääkkönen, Daniel Pakkala, A. Tikkala, J. Remes, P. Välitalo. 717-722 [doi]
• Progressive HTML for Proximate and Automatic InteractionsArnaud Troël, Michel Banâtre, Frédéric Weis. 723-727 [doi]
• Superphony: Towards Ubiquitous Audio Communication ServicesMarc Lacoste, Patrick Paniez, Aimé Vareille. 728-734 [doi]
• DBGlobe: A Data-Centric Approach to Global ComputingAlexandros Karakasidis, Evaggelia Pitoura. 735-740 [doi]
• A Service-Based Architecture for In-Vehicle Telematics SystemsD. Reilly, A. Taleb-Bendiab. 741-742 [doi]
• Autonomous and Asynchronous Operation of Networked Appliances with Mobile AgentSoko Aoki, Jin Nakazawa, Hideyuki Tokuda. 743-748 [doi]
• Research and Implementation of Mobile Ad Hoc Network Emulation SystemWeiguo Liu, Hantao Song. 749-756 [doi]
• Control Software for Home Automation, Design Aspects and Position PaperDavid J. Greaves. 757-764 [doi]
• A Framework for Connecting Home Computing MiddlewareEiji Tokunaga, Hiroo Ishikawa, Makoto Kurahashi, Yasunobu Morimoto, Tatsuo Nakajima. 765-770 [doi]
• A Flexible, Privacy-Preserving Authentication Framework for Ubiquitous Computing EnvironmentsJalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas. 771-776 [doi]
• An Efficient and Flexible Access Control Framework for Java Programs in Mobile TerminalsHiroyuki Tomimori, Yukikazu Nakamoto. 777-784 [doi]
• An Architecture Concept for Ubiquitous Computing Aware Wearable ComputersMartin Bauer, Bernd Brügge, Gudrun Klinker, Asa MacWilliams, Thomas Reicher, Christian Sandor, Martin Wagner. 785-790 [doi]
• LifeMinder: A Wearable Healthcare Support System Using User s ContextKazushige Ouchi, Takuji Suzuki, Miwako Doi. 791-792 [doi]
• The eSleeve: A Novel Wearable Computer Configuration for the Discovery of Situated InformationCliff Randell, Henk L. Muller. 793-798 [doi]
• Class-Based Delta-Encoding: A Scalable Scheme for Caching Dynamic Web ContentKonstantinos Psounis. 799-805 [doi]
• Whoops! : A Clustered Web Cache for DSM Systems using Memory Mapped NetworksEmmanuel Cecchet. 806-811 [doi]
• Analytical Performance Prediction of WWW Distributed Cache Management (DCM) ProtocolsSinisa Srbljic, Dalibor F. Vrsalovic, Ivan Skuliber. 812-819 [doi]
• Energy-Aware Web Caching for Mobile TerminalsFrançoise Sailhan, Valérie Issarny. 820-825 [doi]
• Site-Based Mapping for Parallel Proxy Servers with Fewer TCP ConnectionsKin Yeung Wong, Kwok-Fai Law, Kai Hau Yeung. 826 [doi]