Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, Gpc 2008, Kunming, China, May 25-28, 2008. Proceedings (Paperback, 2008)

Keynote Speeches (Abstracts).- Massively Distributed Systems : From Grids and P2P to Clouds.- Building Distributed, Wide-Area Applications with WheelFS.- Virtualization Technology: Past, Present, and Future.- Track 1: Cluster Computing.- Domino-Effect Free Crash Recovery for Concurrent Failures in Cluster Federation.- Tidset-Based Parallel FP-tree Algorithm for the Frequent Pattern Mining Problem on PC Clusters.- Optimizing Communications of Data Parallel Programs in Scalable Cluster Systems.- Track 2: Grid Computing.- The Development of a Drug Discovery Virtual Screening Application on Taiwan Unigrid.- PGWFT: A Petri Net Based Grid Workflow Verification and Optimization Toolkit.- A Probability-Based Framework for Dynamic Resource Scheduling in Grid Environment.- A Mobile Agent-Based Statistic Execution Model for Grid Computing.- An Optimization of Resource Replication Access in Grid Cache.- ADVE: Adaptive and Dependable Virtual Environments for Grid Computing.- An Incentive Approach for Computational Resource Sharing in the Autonomous Environment.- Using Moldability to Improve Scheduling Performance of Parallel Jobs on Computational Grid.- A Fuzzy Grid-QoS Framework for Obtaining Higher Grid Resources Availability.- Guarantee the Victorious Probability of Grid Resources in the Competition for Finite Tasks.- Co-allocation in Data Grids: A Global, Multi-user Perspective.- Scheduling for Atomic Broadcast Operation in Heterogeneous Networks with One Port Model.- A Resource Discovery Algorithm with Probe Feedback Mechanism in Multi-domain Grid Environment.- Middleware Integration and Deployment Strategies for Cyberinfrastructures.- A Multi-site Resource Allocation Strategy in Computational Grids.- Track 3: High Performance Computing.- A Clustering Model for Multicast on Hypercube Network.- Performance Evaluation of End-to-End Path Capacity Measurement Tools in a Controlled Environment.- Protein Sequence Motif Discovery on Distributed Supercomputer.- Parallel and Distributed Particle Collision Simulation with Decentralized Control.- Track 4: Network Storage.- Modeling and Simulation of Self-similar Storage I/O.- PCOW: Pipelining-Based COW Snapshot Method to Decrease First Write Penalty.- A Component-Based Analytical Performance Model of IP-Based SAN.- Track 5: Peer-to-Peer Computing.- QCast: A QoS-Aware Peer-to-Peer Streaming System with DHT-Based Multicast.- A Construction of Peer-to-Peer Streaming System Based on Flexible Locality-Aware Overlay Networks.- Managing Data for Evaluating Trust in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks.- A Gossip-Based Protocol to Reach Consensus Via Uninorm Aggregation Operator.- HilbertChord: A P2P Framework for Service Resources Management.- A Peer-to-Peer Assisting Scheme for Live Streaming Services.- A Novel Ownership Scheme to Maintain Web Content Consistency.- Together: A Hybrid Overlay for Application-Layer Multicast in Heterogeneous Environment.- Track 6: Pervasive Computing.- Node Placement of Linear Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks for Maximum Network Lifetime.- The Weighted Shortest Path Search in Mobile GIS Services.- On Maximizing the Throughput of Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Self-organizing Communication Architecture for ZigBee.- Track 7: Semantic Web and Semantic Grid.- A Semantic Service Matching Middleware for Mobile Devices Discovering Grid Services.- A Pragmatic Approach for the Semantic Description and Matching of Pervasive Resources.- An Efficient Method to Measure the Semantic Similarity of Ontologies.- A Dynamic Awareness Model for Service-Based Collaborative Grid Application in Access Grid.- Track 8: Service-Oriented Computing.- A Suggested Framework for Exploring Contextual Information to Evaluate and Recommend Services.- A Model of Service Scheduling Based on Market Mechanism and Semantic.- Flexible and Semantics-Based Support for Web Services Transaction Protocols.