The complexity of modern computer networks and systems, combined with the extremely dynamic environments in which they operate, is beginning to outpace our ability to manage them. Taking yet another page from the biomimetics playbook, the autonomic computing paradigm mimics the human autonomic nervous system to free system developers and administrators from performing and overseeing low-level tasks. Surveying the current path toward this paradigm, Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications offers a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and implementations in this emerging area. This book begins by introducing the concepts and requirements of autonomic computing and exploring the architectures required to implement such a system. The focus then shifts to the approaches and infrastructures, including control-based and recipe-based concepts, followed by enabling systems, technologies, and services proposed for achieving a set of "self-*" properties, including self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection. In the final section, examples of real-world implementations reflect the potential of emerging autonomic systems, such as dynamic server allocation and runtime reconfiguration and repair. Collecting cutting-edge work and perspectives from leading experts, Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications reveals the progress made and outlines the future challenges still facing this exciting and dynamic field.

New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle the emerging issues such as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures. In order to realize such advanced systems, approaches should become task- and knowledge-driven, enabling a service-oriented, requirement, and trust-driven development of communication networks. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing environment poses many challenges to the research community, including interoperability, programmability, management, openness, reliability, performance, context awareness, intelligence, autonomy, security, privacy, safety, and semantics. This edited volume explores the challenges of technologies to realize the vision where devices and applications seamlessly interconnect, intelligently cooperate, and autonomously manage themselves, and as a result, the borders of virtual and real world vanish or become significantly blurred.

New paradigms for communication/networking systems are needed in order to tackle the emerging issues such as heterogeneity, complexity and management of evolvable infrastructures. In order to realize such advanced systems, approaches should become task- and knowledge-driven, enabling a service-oriented, requirement, and trust-driven development of communication networks. The networking and seamless integration of concepts, technologies and devices in a dynamically changing environment poses many challenges to the research community, including interoperability, programmability, management, openness, reliability, performance, context awareness, intelligence, autonomy, security, privacy, safety, and semantics. This edited volume explores the challenges of technologies to realize the vision where devices and applications seamlessly interconnect, intelligently cooperate, and autonomously manage themselves, and as a result, the borders of virtual and real world vanish or become significantly blurred.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2010, held in Noida, India, in August 2011. The 42 revised full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: algorithm; applications; systems (hardware and software); biomedical informations; poster papers.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Contemporary Computing, IC3 2010, held in Noida, India, in August 2011. The 58 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference onDistributedComputingandInternetTechnologies(ICDCIT2008)heldduring December 10-12, 2008 in New Delhi, India. The conference was organized by KIIT University, Bhubanshewar, India. TheacceptanceofthequalityoftheICDCITconferencesbytheinternational computer science community is a source of much satisfaction to its organizers. This year, we received 96 submissions from authors from 13 countries. We also received tremendous support from the reviewers. Most of the papers were - viewed by at least three Program Committee members or additional referees. The overall quality of the submissions was very high and we had to turn away some papers which received good reviews and would have been accepted in past conferences. In all, 20 papers were accepted of which 8 are in the short paper category. Many people and organizations contributed to the success of the conference. WewishtothankAchyutaSamanta, Chancellor, KIITUniversityforhissupport of the conference. We also wish to thank all the Chairs, Steering and Organizing Committees for their support. Our most sincere thanks go to the ProgramC- mittee members whose contribution in carryingout a high-quality reviewhelped us come up with a strong conference program. We express our sincere thanks to theinvitedspeakers-WolfgangGentzsch, ManishGupta, andRajkumarBuyya. We acknowledge IIT Kanpur and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for providing infrastructural support to carry out this editorial work. We thank with deep gratitude the assistance provided by our students Nitin Agarwal and Abhinav Jain at all the stages of the conference. Lastly, we would like to thank Springer for publishing these proceedings in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science ser

at the distributed virtual Program Committee meeting. Each paper's review recomm- dationswere carefully checkedfor consistency; in many instances, the Vice Chairs read the papers themselves when the reviews did not seem suf?cient to make a decision. Throughout the reviewing process, I received a tremendous amount of help and advice from General Co-chair Manish Parashar, Steering Chair Viktor Prasanna, and last year's Program Chair Srinivas Aluru; I am very grateful to them. My thanks also go to the Publications Chair Sushil Prasad for his outstanding efforts in putting the proceedings together. Finally, I thank all the authors for their contributions to a hi- quality technical program. I wish all the attendees a very enjoyable and informative meeting. December 2008 P. Sadayappan Message from the General Co-chairs and the Vice General Co-chairs On behalf of the organizers of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computing(HiPC), it is our pleasureto present these proceedingsand we hopeyou will ?nd them exciting and rewarding. TheHiPCcallforpapers, onceagain, receivedanoverwhelmingresponse, attracting 317submissionsfrom27countries.P.Sadayappan, theProgramChair, andthe Program Committee worked with remarkablededication to put together an outstandingtechnical program consisting of the 46 papers that appear in these proceedings.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2007, held in Goa, India, in December 2007.

The 53 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 5 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications on I/O and FPGAs, microarchitecture and multiprocessor architecture, applications of novel architectures, system software, scheduling, energy-aware computing, P2P and internet applications, communication and routing, cluster and grid applications, as well as mobile computing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2006, held in Bangalore, India in December 2006.

The 52 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 7 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on scheduling and load balancing, architectures, network and distributed algorithms, application software, network services, applications, ad-hoc networks, systems software, sensor networks and performance evaluation, as well as routing and data management algorithms.

to acknowledge the dedicated effort put forth by the Vice-Chairs: Michael A. Bender (Algorithms), Zhiwei Xu (Applications), Jose Duato (Architecture), M. Cristina Pinotti (Communication Networks), and Satoshi Matsuoka (System Software). Without their help and timely work, the quality of this program would not be as high nor would the process have run so smoothly. I thank the other organizers who have contributed to assembling this program, - cludingthose who organizedthe keynotes, tutorials, workshops, awards, poster session, industry exhibits, and those who performed the administrative functions that have been essential to the success of this conference. The work of Sushil K. Prasad in putting - gethertheconferenceproceedingsisalsoacknowledged, aswell asthesupportprovided by Kamesh Madduri and Vaddadi Chandu, Ph.D. students at Georgia Institute of Te- nology, and Vipin Sachdeva, M.S. student at the Universityof New Mexico, in assisting with the EDAS online paper submission and evaluation software. Last, but certainly not least, I express heart-felt thanks to our General Co-chairs, Manish Parashar and V. Sridhar; Steering Chair, Viktor Prasanna; and to the Vice-General Chair, Rajendra V. Boppana; for all their useful advice. Lastly, I thank the Conference General Co-chairs for allowing me to serve our c- munity as the Program Chair of this high-quality international conference. It has been my pleasure to correspond with so many of you, and I personally welcome you to Go

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Grid Computing, GRID 2002, held in Baltimore, MD, USA in November 2002.The 22 revised full papers and 6 work-in-progress papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications and frameworks, optimization and performance, programming models, resource discovery and management, security and policy management, scheduling, grid infrastructure and services, and data services.