Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, 4th International Symposium, ISPA 2006, Sorrento, Italy, December 4-6, 2006, Proceedings

Keynote Speech.- The Walls of Computer Design.- The Impact of Multicore on Math Software and Exploiting Single Precision Computing to Obtain Double Precision Results.- Implementing Tomorrow's Programming Languages.- Trends in High Performance Computing for Industry and Research.- Emerging Technologies and Large Scale Facilities in HPC.- Track 1. Architectures and Networks.- Architecture and Performance of Dynamic Offloader for Cluster Network.- Session Key Forwarding Scheme Based on AAA Architecture in Wireless Networks.- Dynamic Anchor Based Mobility Management Scheme for Mobile IP Networks.- Forest Search: A Paradigm for Faster Exploration of Scale-Free Networks.- Choosing a Load Balancing Scheme for Agent-Based Digital Libraries.- A Novel Software Solution for Localized Thermal Problems.- The Optimum Network on Chip Architectures for Video Object Plane Decoder Design.- A Hardware NIC Scheduler to Guarantee QoS on High Performance Servers.- Studying Several Proposals for the Adaptation of the DTable Scheduler to Advanced Switching.- Asymmetrical SSL Tunnel Based VPN.- Multihomed Routing in Multicast Service Overlay Network.- Region-Based Multicast Routing Protocol with Dynamic Address Allocation Scheme in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Novel Approach for Topology-Aware Overlay Multicasting.- Limitations of Fixed Timers for Wireless Links.- Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11e WLANs with Hidden Stations and Heterogeneous Traffic.- Study on High Performance IPv4/IPv6 Transition and Access Service.- Limiting the Effects of Deafness and Hidden Terminal Problems in Directional Communications.- Enforcing Dimension-Order Routing in On-Chip Torus Networks Without Virtual Channels.- A Distributed Backbone Formation Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Service Differentiation Mechanism for Improving the Performance of IEEE 802.15.4 Sensor Networks.- Randomized Leader Election Protocols in Noisy Radio Networks with a Single Transceiver.- A Hybrid Intelligent Preventive Fault-Tolerant QoS Unicast Routing Scheme in IP over DWDM Optical Internet.- Track 2. Languages and Algorithms.- From XML Specifications to Parallel Programs.- Managing Grid Computations: An ORC-Based Approach.- Adaptive Technique for Automatic Communication Access Pattern Discovery Applied to Data Prefetching in Distributed Applications Using Neural Networks and Stochastic Models.- Process Scheduling Using Ant Colony Optimization Techniques.- Interlocking Control by Distributed Signal Boxes: Design and Verification with the SPIN Model Checker.- A Delay Time-Based Peak Load Control for Stable Performance.- Interference Aware Dynamic Subchannel Allocation in a Multi-cellular OFDMA System Based on Traffic Situation.- Sized-Based Replacement-k Replacement Policy in Data Grid Environments.- Barrier Elimination Based on Access Dependency Analysis for OpenMP.- Parallelization Algorithms for Three-Body Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulation.- An Efficient Distributed Algorithm for Mining Association Rules.- Adaptive Algorithms Using Bounded Memory Are Inherently Non-uniform.- On the Implementation of Parallel Shortest Path Algorithms on a Supercomputer.- An Efficient K-Coverage Eligibility Algorithm on Sensor Networks.- A Distributed Algorithm for a b-Coloring of a Graph.- Topology-Sensitive Epidemic Algorithm for Information Spreading in Large-Scale Systems.- Performance Modeling and Optimal Block Size Selection for the Small-Bulge Multishift QR Algorithm.- A Parallel Mutual Information Based Image Registration Algorithm for Applications in Remote Sensing.- A Novel Broadcasting Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Track 3. Middleware and Cooperative Computing.- Middleware Services for Pervasive Grids.- Allocating QoS-Constrained Workflow-Based Jobs in a Multi-cluster Grid Through Queueing Theory Approach.- Managing Multiple Isolation Levels in Middleware Database Replication Protocols.- Proof and Evaluation of a 1CS Middleware Data Replication Protocol Based on O2PL.- Reconfiguration of Information Management Framework Based on Adaptive Grid Computing.- Framework for Enabling Highly Available Distributed Applications for Utility Computing.- A Bluetooth MPI Framework for Collaborative Computer Graphics.- Study on Application Server Aging Prediction Based on Wavelet Network with Hybrid Genetic Algorithm.- Autonomic Service Reconfiguration in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment.- Remote Class Prefetching: Improving Performance of Java Applications on Grid Platforms.- Using Data Consistency Protocol in Distributed Computing Environments.- Design and Evaluation of a Parallel Data Redistribution Component for TGrid.- MetaLoRaS: A Predictable MetaScheduler for Non-dedicated Multiclusters.- The Cost of Transparency: Grid-Based File Access on the Avaki Data Grid.- A Topology Self-adaptation Mechanism for Efficient Resource Location.- A Replication-Based Fault Tolerance Protocol Using Group Communication for the Grid.- Increasing Availability in a Replicated Partitionable Distributed Object System.- Exploiting Multidomain Non Routable Networks.- Recovery Strategies for Linear Replication.- Mobile Agents Based Collective Communication: An Application to a Parallel Plasma Simulation.- Track 4. Software and Applications.- A Static Parallel Multifrontal Solver for Finite Element Meshes.- A Software Architecture Framework for On-Line Option Pricing.- An Open Source Web Service Based Platform for Heterogeneous Clusters.- Cost Models and Performance Evaluation of Similarity Search in the HON P2P System.- Matrix-Based Programming Optimization for Improving Memory Hierarchy Performance on Imagine.- On Design and Implementation of Adaptive Data Classification Scheme for DSM Systems.- TraceDo: An On-Chip Trace System for Real-Time Debug and Optimization in Multiprocessor SoC.- Automatic Performance Optimization of the Discrete Fourier Transform on Distributed Memory Computers.- Debugging Distributed Shared Memory Applications.- Implications of Memory Performance for Highly Efficient Supercomputing of Scientific Applications.- Optimisation of the Parallel Performance of a 3D Device Simulator for HEMTs.- Video Shot Extraction on Parallel Architectures.- Performance of Real-Time Data Scheduling Heuristics Under Data Replacement Policies and Access Patterns in Data Grids.- Multi-site Scheduling with Multiple Job Reservations and Forecasting Methods.- Evaluating the Dynamic Behaviour of PROSA P2P Network.- Towards Fully Adaptive Pipeline Parallelism for Heterogeneous Distributed Environments.- Compiler-Directed Energy-Time Tradeoff in MPI Programs on DVS-Enabled Parallel Systems.- A GPGPU Approach for Accelerating 2-D/3-D Rigid Registration of Medical Images.