Table of Contents

Improving Concurrent Write Scheme in File Server Group.- A Comparative Performance Study of Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms with a Class of Extended Petri Nets.- A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency.- Clock Synchronization State Graphs Based on Clock Precision Difference.- A Recursive-Adjustment Co-allocation Scheme in Data Grid Environments.- Reducing the Bandwidth Requirements of P2P Keyword Indexing.- A Deadline and Budget Constrained Scheduling Algorithm for eScience Applications on Data Grids.- A Survivability Model for Cluster System.- Localization Techniques for Cluster-Based Data Grid.- GridFTP and Parallel TCP Support in NaradaBrokering.- 2-Layered Metadata Service Model in Grid Environment.- pKSS: An Efficient Keyword Search System in DHT Peer-to-Peer Network.- A Comparative Study at the Logical Level of Centralised and Distributed Recovery in Clusters.- Toward Self Discovery for an Autonomic Cluster.- Mining Traces of Large Scale Systems.- Setup Algorithm of Web Service Composition.- Self Healing and Self Configuration in a WSRF Grid Environment.- Study on Life Cycle Model of Dynamic Composed Web Services.- Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Job Scheduling Policy.- An Efficient Dynamic Load-Balancing Algorithm in a Large-Scale Cluster.- Job Scheduling Policy for High Throughput Grid Computing.- High Performance Task Scheduling Algorithm for Heterogeneous Computing System.- Execution Environments and Benchmarks for the Study of Applications’ Scheduling on Clusters.- Data Distribution Strategies for Domain Decomposition Applications in Grid Environments.- Inter-round Scheduling for Divisible Workload Applications.- Scheduling Divisible Workloads Using the Adaptive Time Factoring Algorithm.-Adaptive Policy Triggering for Load Balancing.- Parallel Algorithms for Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution.- Design and Multithreading Implementation of the Wave-Front Algorithm for Constructing Voronoi Diagrams.- A Proposal of Parallel Strategy for Global Wavelet-Based Registration of Remote-Sensing Images.- Performance Analysis of a Parallel Sort Merge Join on Cluster Architectures.- Parallel Clustering on the Star Graph.- Hierarchical Parallel Simulated Annealing and Its Applications.- Multi-color Difference Schemes of Helmholtz Equation and Its Parallel Fast Solver over 3-D Dodecahedron Partitions.- GridMD: Program Architecture for Distributed Molecular Simulation.- Visuel: A Novel Performance Monitoring and Analysis Toolkit for Cluster and Grid Environments.- to a New Tariff Mechanism for Charging for Computer Power in the Grid.- Host Load Prediction for Grid Computing Using Free Load Profiles.- Active Link: Status Detection Mechanism for Distributed Service Based on Active Networks.- Performance Monitoring for Distributed Service Oriented Grid Architecture.- Distributed Defense Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks.- Security and Safety Assurance Architecture: Model and Implementation (Supporting Multiple Levels of Criticality).- Modeling and Analysis of Worm and Killer-Worm Propagation Using the Divide-and-Conquer Strategy.- An Efficient Reliable Architecture for Application Layer Anycast Service.- A Distributed Approach to Estimate Link-Level Loss Rates.- Evaluation of Interconnection Network Performance Under Heavy Non-uniform Loads.- Analytical Models of Probability Distributions for MPI Point-to-Point Communication Times on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers.- Communication Data Multiplexing in Distributed Simulation.- Novel Adaptive SubcarrierPower and Bit Allocation Using Wavelet Packet Parallel Architecture.- A Low–Level Communication Library for Java HPC.- Object-Oriented Design and Implementations of 3G-324M Protocol Stack.- Efficient Techniques and Hardware Analysis for Mesh-Connected Processors.