12th IEEE International Workshop on
Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems

(FTDCS 2008)

Kunming, China, October 21-23, 2008

 

All technical sessions and poster session will be held in Science Hall, Yunnan University.

 

On-site registration and pick-up of pre-registration packets will begin from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the Welcome Reception (at Yunda Hotel, which is adjacent to the Science Hall of Yunnan University) on Monday, October 20, 2008. [After October 11, 2008, only on-site registrations will be accepted.]

On-site registration and pick-up of pre-registration packets will continue on Tuesday, October 21 starting 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in Science Hall.

 

Note: Both the Green Lake Hotel and Yunda Hotel are within short walking distance of the workshop site.

Advanced Program

 

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

 

8:30 a.m. – 8:50 a.m.

Opening Session:  

            Hongji Yang, Workshop Co-chair, De Montfort University, UK

               Tianchun He, President, Yunnan University, China

               Elisa Bertino, Program Co-chair, Purdue University, USA

               Stephen S. Yau, Chair, Steering Committee, Arizona State University, USA

 

8:50 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

Panel Session A.  Grand Challenges for Distributed Computing Systems

Chair:  Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Panelists:   Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

                 Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

                 Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

                 Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research Center, USA

 

Break:  10:10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

 

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. (two parallel sessions)

Session 1. Wireless and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Chair:  Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

• Energy Efficient Detections of Critical Events in Wireless Sensor Networks, Yunhuai Liu, Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, and Yanmin Zhu, Imperial College London, UK

• Design and Evaluation of a Dynamic Continuous Media Streaming Supporting Method on the basis of Logical Grid Hierarchy for MANETs, Ihn-Han Bae and Kyung-Sook Lee, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea

• An Adaptive Polling Scheme Supporting Audio/Video Streaming in Wireless LANs, Yaw-Chung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan and Han-Ru Yeh, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

 

Session 2. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (A)

Chair:  Stephan Steglich, Technical University of Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

• Towards Role-based Authorization for OSGi Service Environments, Gail-Joon Ahn, Hongxin Hu, Arizona State University, USA, and Jing Jin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

• Performance Analysis of Service Composition Using Ordinary Differential Equations

Zuohua Ding , Lujuan Xiao and Jueliang Hu, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China

• The BCD view model: Business analysis view, service Composition view and service Design view for service oriented software design and development, JoonSeok Park, Keun-hyuk Yeom, Pusan National University, Korea, and Mikyeong Moon, Dongseo University, Korea

 

 

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.  Lunch

 

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  (two parallel sessions)

Session 3. Autonomic and Adaptive Systems

Chair: Lionel Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

• Event-Based Data Dissemination on Inter-Administrative Domains: Is It Viable?, Roberto Baldoni, Leonardo Querzoni and Sirio Scipioni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• Human-Intention Driven Self Adaptive Software Evolvability, Hua Ming, Katsunori Oyama and Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA

• Why MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment), Ajlan Al Ajlan and Hussein Zedan, De Montfort University, UK

 

Session 4. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (B)

Chair: Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM Research Center, USA

• Distributed Scientific Workflow Management for Data-Intensive Applications, Serge Shumilov, Yan Leng, Mahmoud El-Gayyar and Armin Cremers, University of Bonn, Germany

• Developing Service-based Software Systems with QoS Monitoring and Adaptation, S. S. Yau, N. Ye, H. Sarjoughian and D. Huang, Arizona State University, USA

• Progressive Ripple-Based Service Discovery for High Response Time in Autonomous Decentralized Community System, Khalid Mahmood, Yuji Horikoshi, Satoshi Niki, Xiadong Lu and Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 

3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. Break

 

3:20 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. (two parallel sessions)

 

Session 5. Grid Computing and Utility Computing

Chair:  Feng-Jiang Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

• GSON: A Group Based Hierarchically Structured Overlay Network, Rui Wang, Qinglin Zhu, Depei Qian and Danfeng Zhu, Beihang University, China

• A Credit Evaluation Model for Computational Grid Nodes, Tao Wang, Xing-she Zhou, Yun-lan Wang and Jian Hu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

• Design and Implementation of an Information Service for Cross-grid Computing Environments, Chao-Tung Yang, Tsui-Ting Chen, Keng-Yi Chou and William C. Chu, Tunghai University, Taiwan

 

Session 6. Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (C)

Chair: Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China

• Developing a Security Robot in Service-Oriented Architecture, Yinong Chen, S. Abhyankar, L. Xu, W.T. Tsai and Marcos Garcia-Acosta, Arizona State University, USA

• Structured Service Composition Execution for Mobile Web Applications, Heiko Pfeffer, Louay Bassbouss and Stephan Steglich, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany

• SOV: Service Oriented Virtualization Model for Medical Image Grid, Hai Jin, Aobing Sun, Qin Zhang and Ran Zheng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

 

6:30 p.m. Banquet

 

Wednesday, October 22, 2008    Excursion

 

Thursday, October 23, 2008 

 

8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.  (two parallel sessions)

Session 7. Dependable and Survivable Distributed Systems 

Chair: Serge Shumilov, University of Bonn, Germany

• Reliability Analysis of Component-Based Software Based on Rewrite Logic, Dong Wang and Ning Huang, Beihang University, China

• XMML: A Visual Metamodeling Language for Domain-Specific Modeling and Its Application in Distributed Systems, Hua Zhou, ZhiHong Liang , Hong Wei Kang, Qing Duan, Yunnan University, China, Xing Ping Sun, Honghe University, China, and Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

• The Causal Order is Strict, Jerry James, LDS Church and Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Utah State University, USA

• An Extended MM-Path Approach to Component-based Web Application Testing, Jingxian Gu, Lei Xu, Southeast University, China, Baowen Xu, Nanjing University, China and Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

 

Session 8. Security and Trust in Distributed Systems (A)

Chair:  Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA

• Towards a Simple Secured Searching Protocol for Future RFID Applications, Md Sazzad Hossain and Sheikh I. Ahamed , Marquette University, USA

• Using Historical Role to Speed up Subsequent Negotiations, Yizhu Zhao and Hongwei Lu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• A Delegation Framework for Access Control in WfMS based on Tasks and Roles, Pu Jian, Hwai-jung Hsu and Feng-jian Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

• An Architecture for Guaranteeing Real-time Databases Available Ceaselessly, Ying-yuan Xiao, Tianjin University of Technology, China

 

10:15 a.m. –10:30 a.m.  Break

 

10:30 a.m. – noon (two parallel sessions)

Session 9. Distributed Applications and Services

Chair: Hussein Zedan, De Montfort University, UK

• Well-Balanced Allocation Strategy for Multi-Cluster Computing Environments, Chao-Tung Yang, Hao-Yu Tung, Keng-Yi Chou and William C. Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan

• A Distributed Approach for Multi-Domain Simulation of Mechatronic Systems, Andreas Hinnerichs, Tibor Farkas and Carsten Neumann, Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Gemany

• Cognitive Distributed Networks in Environmental e-Science, Ramesh Bharadwaj, Naval Research Laboratory, USA, Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Manuel Peralta, Utah State University, USA, Krishna Shenai, University of Toledo, USA, and Subhashis Majumder, International Institute of Information Technology, India

   

Session 10. Security and Trust in Distributed Systems (B)

Chair: Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA

• Approach to Supporting Continuity of Usage in Location-based Access Control, Maria Luisa Damiani, Claudio Silvestri, University of Milano, Italy, and Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA

• Intrusion Detection using Third-parties Support, Masakazu Fujii , Kenichi Takahashi, Institute of Systems, Information Technologies & Nanotechnologies, Japan, Yoshiaki Hori and Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan

• Using Multi-core Processors to Support Network Security Applications, Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia, and Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia

 

Noon – 1:15 p.m.  Lunch

 

1:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  Poster Session

 

1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. (one session)

 

Session 11. Real-time, Pervasive and Embedded System

Chair:  Keun-hyuk Yeom, Pusan National University, Korea

• ERAP: ECC based RFID Authentication Protocol, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Farzana Rahman, Md. Endadul Hoque, Marquette University, USA

BlueCRM: A New Trend of Customer Relationship Management Systems, Mohammed Alawairdhi, Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK, and Mousa AL-Akhras, The University of Jordan, Jordan

• APRIX: A Master-Slave Operating System Architecture for Multiprocessor Embedded Systems, Jimin Kim and Minsoo Ryu , Hanyang University, Korea

 

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break

 

    3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Panel Session B. Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems

Chair:  Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

Panelists:

   Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA

   William Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan

   Kingji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

   Serge Shumilov, University of Bonn, Germany

 

4:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.

Discussion on the next Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems