Annotation Proceedings of an April 2001 set of workshops of applied reliable group communication, distributed dynamic multiservice architectures, smart appliances and wearable computing, multimedia network systems, and wireless networks and mobile computing. Specific subjects covered include the architecture of a secure group communication system based on intrusion tolerance, client side reconfiguration on software components for load balancing, collaborative media streaming in an in- home network, experimental evaluation of error control for video multicast over wireless LANs, image indexing and similarity retrieval based on a new spatial relation model, and a multi-channel MAC protocol with power control for multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks. Lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.

This year's program covers areas such as distributed agents and intelligent networks, internet and web computing, network protocols, distributed operating systems, distributed databases, middleware and distributed platforms, mobile computing, distributed algorithms, fault-tolerant systems, distributed systems security.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Intelligent Technology, ICDCIT 2022, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January 20212. The 11 full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. There are also 4 invited papers included. The papers were organized in topical sections named: invited papers, distributed computing and intelligent technology.

Annotation Contains papers from an April 2001 conference on distributed system technology and its applications. Papers reflect recent developments in distributed computer systems in terms of design, analysis, and implementation and evaluation. Papers are in sections on distributed algorithms, operating systems, and agent systems, stabilization problems, load sharing and migration methods, applications, modeling and simulation, network management, real-time systems, fault-tolerant issues, multicast and anycast, distributed programming models, object- oriented systems, security issues, distributed databases, mobile computing and communication, mobility theory and practice, network protocols, distributed process engineering, resource management, middleware, and Internet technology. Lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.

Although parallel robots are known to offer many advantages with respect to accuracy, dynamics, and stiffness, major breakthroughs in industrial applications have not yet taken place. This is due to a knowledge gap preventing fast and precise execution of industrial handling and assembly tasks. This book focuses on the design, modeling, and control of innovative parallel structures as well as the integration of novel machine elements. Special attention is paid to the integration of active components into lightweight links and passive joints. In addition, new control concepts are introduced to minimize structural vibrations. Although the optimization of robot systems itself allows a reduction of cycle times, these can be further decreased by improved path planning, robot programming, and automated assembly planning concepts described by 25 contributions within this book. The content of this volume is subdivided into four main parts dealing with Modeling and Design, System Implementation, Control and Programming as well as Adaptronics and Components. This book is aimed at researchers and postgraduates working in the field of parallel robots as well as practicing engineers dealing with industrial robot development and robotic applications.

The world is charging towards the new network technologies of broadband and 3G, and new application technologies face the challenge of where they can be used. This book takes a pragmatic look at two particular application technologies - location and personalisation - and presents an understanding of the technical and business impact of these technologies. With a combination of overview papers, detailed technical case studies and a deep understanding of actual implementatio of these services within a telecommunications environment, this book will help those wishing to deliver improved services based on these capabilities. Other key topics covered include CRM and content management.

We present a novel performance modeling approach tailored to I/O performance prediction in virtualized environments. The main idea is to identify important performance-influencing factors and to develop storage-level I/O performance models. To increase the practical applicability of these models, we combine the low-level I/O performance models with high-level software architecture models. Our approach is validated in a variety of case studies in state-of-the-art, real-world environments.