The 10 th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Suzhou, China
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
9:00am – 9:30am, Opening Session
General Chair: Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
Honorary Chair: Min Wang, Head of Suzhou Municipal Government, China
President, IEEE Computer Society: Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA
Steering Committee Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Program Co-chairs: Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University, China
9:30am – 10:30am
Session A1: Challenges in Future Distributed Systems
C hair: Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA
- Fundamental Research Challenges in Real-Time Distributed Computing,
Kane Kim, University of California-Irvine, USA
- Usage Model Considerations for Future Distributed Computing Systems,
Wen-Hann Wang, Intel, USA
10:30am – 11:00am, Break
11:00am – Noon, Parallel Sessions B1 & C1
Session B1: Web Services
Chair: Sugata Ghosal, IBM Research, India
- Introducing Compositionality in Webservice Descriptions,
Monika Solanki, Antonio Cau, Hussein Zedan,De Montfort University, UK
- State Management in .NET Web Services,
Xiang Song, Namgeun Jeong, Phillip W. Hutto, Umakishore Ramachandran, James M. Rehg,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Session C1: Pervasive System Architecture I
C hair: Bill Kaiser, UCLA, USA
- Friendly Object Tracking and Foreign Object Detection and Localization with an SDAC Wireless Sensor Network,
Douglas Stark, Jesse Davis, Sandia National Labs, USA
- An Architectural View of the Entites Required for Execution of Task in Pervasive Space,
K. Kalapriya, Deepti Srinivasan, R. Uma Maheshwari, Satish.V, S. K. Nandy, Indian Institute of Science, India
Noon – 1:30pm, Lunch
1:30pm – 3:00pm, Parallel Sessions B2 & C2
Session B2: Grid Computing Networks I
Chair: Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Scalability in a GRID server discovery mechanism,
Sylvain Dahan, Jean-Marc Nicod, Laurent Philippe, LIFC, France
- Providing Network Monitoring Service for Grid Computing,
Wang Junfeng, Zhou Mingtian, University of Electric Science & Technology, China
- Towards supporting fine-grained access control for Grid Resources,

Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy, Bruno Crispo, Vrije University, The Netherlands, Elena Ferrari,
University of Insubria, Italy, Pietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan, Italy, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Vrije
University, The Netherlands
Session C2: Software Engineering
C hair: Yong Rae Kwon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
- Function-Class Decomposition with Aspects for Distributed Systems,
Carl K. Chang, Tae-hyung Kim, Iowa State University, USA
- CA_PLAN, an Interorganizational workflow model,
Shung-Bin Yan, Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
- PKUAS: An Architecture-based Reflective Component Operating Platform,
Hong Mei, Gang Huang, Peking University, China
3:00pm – 3:30pm, Break
3:30pm – 5:00pm, Parallel Sessions B3 & C3
Session B3: Pervasive System Architecture II
Chair: Wen-Hann Wang, Intel, USA
- Smart Phone: An Embedded System for Universal Interactions,
Liviu Iftode, Cristian Borcea, Nishkam Ravi, Porlin Kang, Peng Zhou, Rutgers University, USA
- EventWeb: Distributed Media Correlation, Analysis and Distribution Framework,
Martin Modahl, Ilya Bagrak, Matthew Wolenetz, Ramesh Jain, Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
- Self-Aware Distributed Embedded Systems,
R. Pon, M. Rahimi, D. Estrin, G. Pottie, M. Srivastava, G. Sukhatme, William J. Kaiser, University of California-
Los Angeles, USA
Session C3: Enterprise Computing
Chair: Randy Chow, University of Florida, USA
- The vMatrix: Server Switching,
Amr Awadallah, Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University, USA
- Two Stage Optimization of Job Scheduling and Assignment in Heterogeneous Compute Farms,
Lev Markov, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
- Enterprise Computing in the On Demand Era,
Anindya Neogi, Sugata Ghosal, IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, India
Thursday, May 27, 2004
9:00am – 10:30am, Parallel Sessions B4 & C4
Session B4: Grid Computing Networks II
Chair: Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Integrate X/Open DTP into Grid Services for Grid Transaction Processing,
Zhengwei Qi, Jinyuan You, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- CNGrid: A Testbed for Grid Technology in China,
Qian Depei, Jiaotong University, China
- I-Centric Communications - A Service Architecture for 3G and beyond,
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Stephan Steglich, Fokus-Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
Session C4: Trust Management
Chair: Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University, China
- An Efficient Key-evolving Signature Scheme Based on Pairing,
Xu Dan, Zhu Yuefei, Network Engineering Department, Information Engineering University, China
- IPSec-based Delegation Protocol and its Application,
Devaraj Das, Hewlett Packard (STSD), India
- A Dynamic Trust Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,
Tony Joy, Robert Thompson, Zhaoyu Liu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

10:30am – 11:00am, Break
11:00am – Noon, Parallel Sessions B5 & C5
Session B5: P2P Middleware
Chair: William Chu, Tung Hai University, Taiwan
- GT-P2PRMI: Improving Middleware Performance Using Peer-to-Peer Service Replication,
Tianying Chang, Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Improving QoS for Peer-to-Peer Applications through Adaptation,
Daniel Hughes, Ian Warren, Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Session C5: Intrusion Detection
Chair: Baowen Xu, Southeast University, China
- A New Perspective in Defending against DDoS Attacks,
Shigang Chen, Randy Chow, University of Florida, USA
- A Fuzzy Data Mining Based Intrusion Detection Model,
Jianhua Sun, Hai Jin, Hao Chen, Zongfen Han, Internet and Cluster Computing Center, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology, China
Noon – 1:30pm, Lunch
Excursion – starting 1:30pm
Friday, May 28, 2004
9:00am – 10:30am, Session A2
Panel Session: Current State and Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems in Asia
Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
Panelists:
William Chu, Tung Hai University, Taiwan
Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chuang Lin, Tsinghua University, China
Kingi Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
P. K. Sinha, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India
10:30am – 11:00am Break
11:00am – Noon, Parallel Sessions B6 & C6
Session B6: Web Ontology
Chair: Y. C. Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- A Complexity Measure for Ontology Based on UML,
Dazhou Kang, Baowen Xu, Jianjiang Lu, Southeast University and Jiangsu Institute of Software Quality, China
- Mapping Web Services Specifications to Process Ontology: Opportunities and Limitations,
Jun Shen, Yun Yang, Bharat Lalwani, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Session C6: Data Placement in P2P
Chair:Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Exploiting semantic proximity in peer-to-peer content searching,
Spyros Voulgaris,Vrije University, The Netherlands, Anne-Marie Kermarrec and Laurent Massoulie, Microsoft
Research, UK, Maarten van Steen, Vrije Univerrsity, The Netherlands.
- Scalable, Structured Data Placement over P2P Storage Utilities,
Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, Mallik Mahalingam, Zhichen Xu, Wenting Tang, Hewlett Packard Labs.
Noon – 1:30pm, Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm, Parallel Sessions B7 & C7
Session B7: Resource Discovery
Chair: Kane Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Estimating Device Availability in Pervasive Peer-to-Peer Environment,
Yuhong Xiong, Xiaofan Lin, James A. Rowson, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
- An Adaptive, Lightweight and Energy-Efficient Context Discovery Protocol for Ubiquitous Computing,
Stephen S. Yau, Deepak Chandrasekar, Dazhi Huang, Arizona State University, USA
Session C7: Network Issues
Chair: Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- A Distributed Buffer Management Approach Supporting IPv6 Mobility,
Yu-Hung Liu, Yaw-Chung Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Analysis an experimentation of an open distributed platform for synthetic traffic generation,
Donato Emma, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio Ventre, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
2:30pm – 3:00pm, Break
3:00pm – 5:00pm, Parallel Sessions B3 & C3
Session B8: Autonomic Computing
C hair: Brian Cooper, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Platform-independent Dynamic Reconfiguration of Distributed Applications,
Joao Paulo A. Almeida , Marten van Sinderen, Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands,
Maarten Wegdam, University of Twente and Lucent Technologies, The Netherlands
- Meta-adaptation in Autonomic Systems,
Jamie Hillman, Ian Warren, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
- Autonomous Decentralized Community Construction Technology to Assure Quality of Services,
Khaled Ragab, Takanori Ono, Naohiro Kaji, Yuji Horikoshi, Hisayuki Kuriyama, Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan
- Container based framework for Self-Healing Software Systems,
Rajesh Kumar Ravi, Vinaya Sathyanarayana, IBM India Software Labs, India
Session C8: P2P Architectures
Chair: Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Fokus-Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
- Towards an Integrated Architecture for Peer-to-Peer and Ad Hoc Overlay Network Applications,
Lu Yan, Kaisa Sere, Xinrong Zhou, Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) and Åbo Akademi University,
Finland, Jun Pang, CWI, The Netherlands
- Random Landmarking in Mobile, Topology-Aware Peer-to-Peer Networks,
Rolf Winter, Thomas Zahn, Jochen Schiller, Freie University, Germany
- The Power of DHT as a Logical Space,
Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Towards a Fully Distributed P2P Web Search Engine,
Jin Zhou, Kai Li, Li Tang, Zeng-Xiang Lu, Tsinghua University, China
5:00pm, Workshop Adjourns