Euro-Par 2002 Parallel processing. 8th international Euro-Par conference, Paderborn, Germany, August 27--30, 2002. Proceedings (Q1613686)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference (7th, 2001) has been reviewed (see Zbl 0971.00037). Indexed articles: \textit{Choi, Young-ri; Garg, Amit; Rai, Siddhartha; Misra, Jayadev; Vin, Harrick}, Orchestrating computations on the world-wide web, 1-20 [Zbl 1068.68576] \textit{Chalmers, Alan; Cater, Kirsten}, Realistic rendering in real-time, 21-28 [Zbl 1068.68608] \textit{Benveniste, Albert}, Non-massive, non-high performance, distributed computing: Selected issues, 29-48 [Zbl 1068.68574] \textit{Feitelson, Dror G.}, The forgotten factor: Facts on performance evaluation and its dependence on workloads, 49-60 [Zbl 1068.68613] \textit{Khosla, Pradeep K.}, Sensor networks -- promise and challenges, 61 [Zbl 1068.68551] \textit{Reinefeld, Alexander; Schintke, Florian}, Concepts and technologies for a worldwide grid infrastructure, 62-71 [Zbl 1068.68563] \textit{Bubak, Marian; Ludwig, Thomas}, Support tools and environments, 73-74 [Zbl 1068.68532] \textit{Truong, Hong-Linh; Fahringer, Thomas}, SCALEA: A performance analysis tool for distributed and parallel programs, 75-85 [Zbl 1068.68634] \textit{Roth, Philip C.; Miller, Barton P.}, Deep Start: A hybrid strategy for automated performance problem searches, 86-96 [Zbl 1068.68630] \textit{Freitag, Felix; Caubet, Jordi; Labarta, Jesus}, On the scalability of tracing mechanisms, 97-104 [Zbl 1068.68614] \textit{Hey, A. J. G.; Papay, J.; Keane, A. J.; Cox, S. J.}, Component based problem solving environment, 105-112 [Zbl 1068.68688] \textit{Kovacs, Jozsef; Kusper, Gabor; Lovas, Robert; Schreiner, Wolfgang}, Integrating temporal assertions into a parallel debugger, 113-120 [Zbl 1068.68656] \textit{Nonaka, Jorji; Pfitscher, Gerson H.; Onisi, Katsumi; Nakano, Hideo}, Low-cost hybrid internal clock synchronization mechanism for COTS PC cluster, 121-124 [Zbl 1068.68558] \textit{Nebro, Antonio J.; Alba, Enrique; Luna, Francisco; Troya, José M.}, .NET as a platform for implementing concurrent objects, 125-129 [Zbl 1068.68649] \textit{Miller, Barton P.; Labarta, Jesus; Schintke, Florian; Simon, Jens}, Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization, 131 [Zbl 1068.68626] \textit{Dementiev, Roman; Klein, Michael; Paul, Wolfgang J.}, Performance of MP3D on the SB-PRAM prototype, 132-136 [Zbl 1068.68611] \textit{Cohen, Albert; Genius, Daniela; Kortebi, Abdesselem; Chamski, Zbigniew; Duranton, Marc; Feautrier, Paul}, Multi-periodic process networks: Prototyping and verifying stream-processing systems, 137-146 [Zbl 1068.68538] \textit{van Gemund, Arjan J. C.}, Symbolic cost estimation of parallel applications, 147-156 [Zbl 1068.68638] \textit{Baker, Zachary K.; Prasanna, Viktor K.}, Performance modeling and interpretive simulation of PIM architectures and applications, 157-161 [Zbl 1068.68604] \textit{Bane, Michael K.; Riley, Graham D.}, Extended overhead analysis for OpenMP, 162-166 [Zbl 1068.68605] \textit{DeRose, Luiz; Wolf, Felix}, CATCH -- a call-graph based automatic tool for capture of hardware performance metrics for MPI and OpenMP applications, 167-176 [Zbl 1068.68610] \textit{Berg, Erik; Hagersten, Erik}, SIP: Performance tuning through source code interdependence, 177-186 [Zbl 1068.68607] \textit{Drozdowski, Maciej; Milis, Ioannis; Rudolph, Larry; Trystram, Denis}, Scheduling and load balancing, 187-188 [Zbl 1068.68612] \textit{Löwe, Welf; Zimmermann, Wolf}, On scheduling task-graphs to LogP-machines with disturbances, 189-196 [Zbl 1068.68622] \textit{Altılar, D. Turgay; Paker, Yakup}, Optimal scheduling algorithms for communication constrained parallel processing, 197-206 [Zbl 1068.68602] \textit{Krevat, Elie; Castaños, José G.; Moreira, José E.}, Job scheduling for the BlueGene/L system, 207-211 [Zbl 1068.68621] \textit{Solar, Mauricio; Inostroza, Mario}, An automatic scheduler for parallel machines, 212-216 [Zbl 1068.68632] \textit{Angel, Eric; Bampis, Evripidis; Giroudeau, Rodolphe}, Non-approximability results for the hierarchical communication problem with a bounded number of clusters, 217-224 [Zbl 1068.68603] \textit{Fujimoto, Noriyuki; Hagihara, Kenichi}, Non-approximability of the bulk synchronous task scheduling problem, 225-233 [Zbl 1068.68615] \textit{Giné, Francesc; Solsona, Francesc; Hernández, Porfidio; Luque, Emilio}, Adjusting time slices to apply coscheduling techniques in a non-dedicated NOW, 234-239 [Zbl 1068.68617] \textit{Fujita, Satoshi}, A semi-dynamic multiprocessor scheduling algorithm with an asymptotically optimal competitive ratio, 240-247 [Zbl 1068.68616] \textit{Yuan, X.; Roig, C.; Ripoll, A.; Senar, M. A.; Guirado, F.; Luque, E.}, AMEEDA: A general-purpose mapping tool for parallel applications on dedicated clusters, 248-252 [Zbl 1068.68637] \textit{Griebl, Martin}, Compilers for high performance (compilation and parallelization techniques), 253-254 [Zbl 1068.68653] \textit{Bouchebaba, Youcef; Coelho, Fabien}, Tiling and memory reuse for sequences of nested loops, 255-264 [Zbl 1068.68652] \textit{Beyls, Kristof; D'Hollander, Erik H.}, Reuse distance-based cache hint selection, 265-274 [Zbl 1068.68651] \textit{Martín, María J.; Singh, David E.; Touriño, Juan; Rivera, Francisco F.}, Improving locality in the parallelization of doacross loops, 275-279 [Zbl 1068.68648] \textit{Thiyagalingam, Jeyarajan; Kelly, Paul H. J.}, Is Morton layout competitive for large two-dimensional arrays?, 280-288 [Zbl 1068.68654] \textit{Arenaz, Manuel; Touriño, Juan; Doallo, Ramón}, Towards detection of coarse-grain loop-level parallelism in irregular computations, 289-298 [Zbl 1068.68642] \textit{Vivien, Frédéric}, On the optimality of Feautrier's scheduling algorithm, 299-308 [Zbl 1068.68635] \textit{Barthou, Denis; Feautrier, Paul; Redon, Xavier}, On the equivalence of two systems of affine recurrence equations, 309-313 [Zbl 1068.68655] \textit{Diessel, Oliver; Malik, Usama; So, Keith}, Towards high-level specification, synthesis, and virtualization of programmable logic designs, 314-318 [Zbl 1068.68644] \textit{Kosch, Harald; Skilicorn, David; Talia, Domenico}, Parallel and distributed databases, data mining and knowledge discovery, 319-320 [Zbl 1068.68663] \textit{Märtens, Holger; Rahm, Erhard; Stöhr, Thomas}, Dynamic query scheduling in parallel data warehouses, 321-331 [Zbl 1068.68664] \textit{Smith, Jim; Watson, Paul; de F. Mendes Sampaio, Sandra; Paton, Norman W.}, Speeding up navigational requests in a parallel object database system, 332-341 [Zbl 1068.68665] \textit{Bretschneider, T.; Kao, O.}, Retrieval of multispectral satellite imagery on cluster architectures, 342-345 [Zbl 1068.68661] \textit{Jin, Ruoming; Agrawal, Gagan}, Shared memory parallelization of decision tree construction using a general data mining middleware, 346-354 [Zbl 1068.68662] \textit{Zhang, Yanyong; Sivasubramaniam, Anand; Zhang, Jianyong; Nagar, Shailabh; Franke, Hubertus}, Characterizing the scalability of decision-support workloads on clusters and SMP systems, 355-364 [Zbl 1068.68667] \textit{Kwok, Terence; Smith, Kate; Lozano, Sebastian; Taniar, David}, Parallel fuzzy \(c\)-means clustering for large data sets, 365-374 [Zbl 1068.68679] \textit{Orlando, S.; Palmerini, P.; Perego, R.; Silvestri, F.}, Scheduling high performance data mining tasks on a data grid environment, 375-384 [Zbl 1068.68680] \textit{Boukerche, Azzedine; Tuck, Terry}, A delayed-initiation risk-free multiversion temporally correct algorithm, 385-390 [Zbl 1068.68660] \textit{Mayr, Ernst W.}, Complexity theory and algorithms, 391 [Zbl 1068.68704] \textit{Tiskin, Alexandre}, Parallel convex hull computation by generalised regular sampling, 392-399 [Zbl 1068.68671] \textit{Niculescu, Virginia}, Parallel algorithms for fast Fourier transformation using PowerList, ParList and PList theories, 400-403 [Zbl 1068.68705] \textit{Han, Jun; McMahon, Graham; Sugden, Stephen}, A branch and bound algorithm for capacitated minimum spanning tree problem, 404-407 [Zbl 1068.68702] \textit{Kumar, Vipin; Pfreundt, Franz-Josef; Burkhard, Hans; Laghina Palma, Jose}, Applications on high performance computers, 409 [Zbl 1068.68552] \textit{Plachetka, Tomas}, Perfect load balancing for demand-driven parallel ray tracing, 410-419 [Zbl 1068.68706] \textit{Lorenz, U.}, Parallel controlled conspiracy number search, 420-430 [Zbl 1068.68703] \textit{Svolos, Andreas I.; Konstantopoulos, Charalambos; Kaklamanis, Christos}, A parallel solution in texture analysis employing a massively parallel processor, 431-435 [Zbl 1068.68708] \textit{Langlais, Michel; Latu, Guillaume; Roman, Jean; Silan, Patrick}, Stochastic simulation of a marine host-parasite system using a hybrid MPI/OpenMP programming, 436-446 [Zbl 1068.68696] \textit{Abdalhaq, Baker; Cortés, Ana; Margalef, Tomás; Luque, Emilio}, Optimization of fire propagation model inputs: A grand challenge application on metacomputers, 447-451 [Zbl 1068.68695] \textit{Webster, Samuel G.; Gobbert, Matthias K.; Remacle, Jean-François; Cale, Timothy S.}, Parallel numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation for atomic layer deposition, 452-456 [Zbl 1068.65512] \textit{Gaudiot, Jean-Luc}, Parallel computer architecture and instruction-level parallelism, 457 [Zbl 1068.68510] \textit{Desmet, Veerle; Goeman, Bart; De Bosschere, Koen}, Independent hashing as confidence mechanism for value predictors in microprocessors, 458-467 [Zbl 1068.68509] \textit{Sendag, Resit; Lilja, David J.; Kunkel, Steven R.}, Exploiting the prefetching effect provided by executing mispredicted load instructions, 468-480 [Zbl 1068.68519] \textit{Yi, Joshua J.; Sendag, Resit; Lilja, David J.}, Increasing instruction-level parallelism with instruction precomputation, 481-485 [Zbl 1068.68525] \textit{Chi, Chi-Hung; Yuan, JunLi}, Runtime association of software prefetch control to memory access instructions, 486-489 [Zbl 1068.68641] \textit{Uht, Augustus; Khalafi, Alireza; Morano, David; de Alba, Marcos; Kaeli, David}, Realizing high IPC using time-tagged resource-flow computing, 490-499 [Zbl 1068.68521] \textit{Kailas, Krishnan; Franklin, Manoj; Ebcioğlu, Kemal}, A register file architecture and compilation scheme for clustered ILP processors, 500-511 [Zbl 1068.68513] \textit{Vandierendonck, Hans; Ramírez, Alex; De Bosschere, Koen; Valero, Mateo}, A comparative study of redundancy in trace caches, 512-516 [Zbl 1068.68522] \textit{Moure, Juan C.; Rexachs, Dolores I.; Luque, Emilio}, Speeding up target address generation using a self-indexed FTB, 517-521 [Zbl 1068.68514] \textit{Paul, Wolfgang J.; Bach, Peter; Bosch, Michael; Fischer, Jörg; Lichtenau, Cédric; Röhrig, Jochen}, Real PRAM programming, 522-531 [Zbl 1068.68517] \textit{Trancoso, Pedro}, In-memory parallelism for database workloads, 532-542 [Zbl 1068.68666] \textit{Sarojadevi, H.; Nandy, S. K.; Balakrishnan, S.}, Enforcing cache coherence at data sharing boundaries without global control: a hardware-software approach, 543-546 [Zbl 1068.68518] \textit{Verdoscia, Lorenzo}, CODACS project: A demand-data driven reconfigurable architecture, 547-550 [Zbl 1068.68523] \textit{Mavronicolas, Marios; Schiper, Andre}, Distributed systems and algorithms, 551-552 [Zbl 1068.68583] \textit{Datta, Ajoy K.; Hadid, Rachid; Villain, Vincent}, A self-stabilizing token-based \(k\)-out-of-\(\ell\) exclusion algorithm, 553-562 [Zbl 1068.68579] \textit{Ruiz, David; Corchuelo, Rafael; Pérez, José A.; Toro, Miguel}, An algorithm for ensuring fairness and liveness in non-deterministic systems based on multiparty interactions, 563-572 [Zbl 1068.68586] \textit{Jelasity, Márk; Preuß, Mike}, On obtaining global information in a peer-to-peer fully distributed environment, 573-577 [Zbl 1068.68581] \textit{Baldoni, Roberto; Marchetti, Carlo; Piergiovanni, Sara Tucci}, A fault-tolerant sequencer for timed asynchronous systems, 578-588 [Zbl 1068.68573] \textit{Gallard, Pascal; Morin, Christine; Lottiaux, Renaud}, Dynamic resource management in a cluster for high-availability, 589-592 [Zbl 1068.68580] \textit{Renault, Éric; Millot, Daniel}, Progressive introduction of security in remote-write communications with no performance sacrifice, 593-597 [Zbl 1068.68585] \textit{Suppi, Remo; Solsona, Marc; Luque, Emilio}, Parasite: Distributing processing using Java applets, 598-602 [Zbl 1068.68587] \textit{Hammond, Kevin}, Parallel programming: Models, methods and programming languages, 603-604 [Zbl 1068.68592] \textit{Bougé, Luc; Danjean, Vincent; Namyst, Raymond}, Improving reactivity to I/O events in multithreaded environments using a uniform, scheduler-centric API, 605-614 [Zbl 1068.68575] \textit{Hawkins, John; Abdallah, Ali E.}, An overview of systematic development of parallel systems for reconfigurable hardware, 615-619 [Zbl 1068.68512] \textit{Kuchen, Herbert}, A skeleton library, 620-629 [Zbl 1068.68646] \textit{Field, A. J.; Kelly, P. H. J.; Hansen, T. L.}, Optimising shared reduction variables in MPI programs, 630-639 [Zbl 1068.68657] \textit{Bischof, Holger; Gorlatch, Sergei}, Double-scan: Introducing and implementing a new data-parallel skeleton, 640-647 [Zbl 1068.68643] \textit{Pedicini, Marco; Quaglia, Francesco}, Scheduling vs communication in PELCR, 648-655 [Zbl 1068.68584] \textit{Keen, Aaron W.; Olsson, Ronald A.}, Exception handling during asynchronous method invocation, 656-660 [Zbl 1068.68645] \textit{Sobral, João Luís; Proença, Alberto José}, Designing scalable object oriented parallel applications, 661-665 [Zbl 1068.68650] \textit{Liniker, Peter; Beckmann, Olav; Kelly, Paul H. J.}, Delayed evaluation, self-optimising software components as a programming model, 666-673 [Zbl 1068.68647] \textit{Duff, Iain S.; Borchers, Wolfgang; Giraud, Luc; van der Vorst, Henk A.}, Numerical algorithms, 675-676 [Zbl 1068.65510] \textit{Dias da Cunha, Rudnei; Becker, Dulcenéia; Patterson, James Carlton}, New parallel (rank-revealing) QR factorization algorithms, 677-686 [Zbl 1068.65504] \textit{Badía, José M.; Benner, Peter; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Ortí, Enrique S.}, Solving large sparse Lyapunov equations on parallel computers, 687-690 [Zbl 1068.65503] \textit{Takahashi, Daisuke; Boku, Taisuke; Sato, Mitsuhisa}, A blocking algorithm for parallel 1-D FFT on clusters of PCs, 691-700 [Zbl 1068.65507] \textit{Buijssen, Sven H. M.; Turek, Stefan}, Sources of parallel inefficiency for incompressible CFD simulations, 701-704 [Zbl 1068.65509] \textit{Graham, Ivan G.; Spence, Alastair; Vainikko, Eero}, Parallel iterative methods for Navier-Stokes equations and application to stability assessment, 705-714 [Zbl 1068.65511] \textit{Boufflet, Jean-Paul; Breitkopf, Piotr; Rassineux, Alain; Villon, Pierre}, A modular design for a parallel multifrontal mesh generator, 715-723 [Zbl 1068.65508] \textit{Korch, Matthias; Rauber, Thomas; Rünger, Gudula}, Pipelining for locality improvement in RK methods, 724-733 [Zbl 1068.65506] \textit{Flammini, Michele; Maggs, Bruce; Sibeyn, Jop; Vöcking, Berthold}, Routing and communication in interconnection networks, 735 [Zbl 1068.68541] \textit{Bang, Young-Cheol; Choo, Hyunseung}, On multicasting with minimum costs for the internet topology, 736-744 [Zbl 1068.68527] \textit{Jin, Hyun-Wook; Yoo, Chuck; Park, Sung-Kyun}, Stepwise optimizations of UDP/IP on a gigabit network, 745-748 [Zbl 1068.68548] \textit{Chen, Yu; Datta, Ajoy K.; Tixeuil, Sébastien}, Stabilizing inter-domain routing in the internet, 749-752 [Zbl 1068.68535] \textit{Jégou, Yvon}, Performance analysis of code coupling on long distance high bandwidth network, 753-756 [Zbl 1068.68547] \textit{Wang, Chien-Min; Hou, Yomin; Hsu, Lih-Hsing}, Adaptive path-based multicast on wormhole-routed hypercubes, 757-766 [Zbl 1068.68569] \textit{Barth, D.; Berthomé, P.; Czarchoski, T.; Fourneau, J. M.; Laforest, C.; Vial, S.}, A mixed deflection and convergence routing algorithm: Design and performance, 767-774 [Zbl 1068.68528] \textit{Gómez, M. E.; Flich, J.; Robles, A.; López, P.; Duato, J.}, Evaluation of routing algorithms for InfiniBand networks, 775-780 [Zbl 1068.68543] \textit{Baydal, E.; López, P.; Duato, J.}, Congestion control based on transmission times, 781-790 [Zbl 1068.68529] \textit{Park, Jihoon; Park, Jonggyu; Han, Ilsuk; Kim, Hagbae}, A Dual-LAN topology with the dual-path Ethernet module, 791-794 [Zbl 1068.68560] \textit{Fujita, Satoshi; Tagashira, Shigeaki}, A fast barrier synchronization protocol for broadcast networks based on a dynamic access control, 795-798 [Zbl 1068.68542] \textit{Sanders, Peter; Träff, Jesper Larsson}, The hierarchical factor algorithm for all-to-all communication, 799-803 [Zbl 1068.68564] \textit{Uhl, Andreas}, Architectures and algorithms for multimedia applications, 805-806 [Zbl 1068.68568] \textit{Mourlas, Costas}, Deterministic scheduling of CBR and VBR media flows on parallel media servers, 807-815 [Zbl 1068.68556] \textit{Cores, Fernando; Ripoll, Ana; Luque, Emilio}, Double P-tree: A distributed architecture for large-scale video-on-demand, 816-825 [Zbl 1068.68577] \textit{Polak, Stanisław; Słota, Renata; Kitowski, Jacek}, Message passing in XML-based language for creating multimedia presentations, 826-829 [Zbl 1068.68561] \textit{Fernández, J. C.; Malumbres, M. P.}, A parallel implementation of H.26L video encoder, 830-833 [Zbl 1068.68640] \textit{Paar, Alexander; Anido, Manuel L.; Bagherzadeh, Nader}, A novel predication scheme for a SIMD system-on-chip, 834-843 [Zbl 1068.68515] \textit{Parizi, Hooman; Niktash, Afshin; Bagherzadeh, Nader; Kurdahi, Fadi}, MorphoSys: A coarse grain reconfigurable architecture for multimedia applications, 844-848 [Zbl 1068.68516] \textit{Cheresiz, D.; Juurlink, B.; Vassiliadis, S.; Wijshoff, H.}, Performance scalability of multimedia instruction set extensions, 849-859 [Zbl 1068.68609] \textit{Cosnard, Michel; Merzky, Andre}, Meta- and grid-computing, 861-862 [Zbl 1068.68539] \textit{Kelly, P. H. J.; Pelagatti, S.; Rossiter, M.}, Instant-access cycle-stealing for parallel applications requiring interactive response, 863-872 [Zbl 1068.68550] \textit{Nikolow, Darin; Słota, Renata; Dziewierz, Mariusz; Kitowski, Jacek}, Access time estimation for tertiary storage systems, 873-880 [Zbl 1068.68557] \textit{Pytliński, Jarosław; Skorwider, Łukasz; Bała, Piotr; Nazaruk, Mirosław; Wawruch, Konrad}, BioGRID -- uniform platform for biomolecular applications, 881-884 [Zbl 1068.68562] \textit{Stanton, J.; Newhouse, S.; Darlington, J.}, Implementing a scientific visualisation capability within a grid enabled component framework, 885-888 [Zbl 1068.68566] \textit{Dialani, Vijay; Miles, Simon; Moreau, Luc; De Roure, David; Luck, Michael}, Transparent fault tolerance for web services based architectures, 889-898 [Zbl 1068.68590] \textit{Alt, Martin; Bischof, Holger; Gorlatch, Sergei}, Algorithm design and performance prediction in a Java-based grid system with skeletons, 899-906 [Zbl 1068.68526] \textit{Caron, Eddy; Desprez, Frédéric; Lombard, Frédéric; Nicod, Jean-Marc; Philippe, Laurent; Quinson, Martin; Suter, Frédéric}, A scalable approach to network enabled servers, 907-910 [Zbl 1068.68534] \textit{Feldmann, Rainer; Roucairol, Catherine}, Discrete optimization, 911 [Zbl 1068.68700] \textit{Gebremedhin, Assefaw Hadish; Manne, Fredrik; Pothen, Alex}, Parallel distance-\(k\) coloring algorithms for numerical optimization, 912-921 [Zbl 1068.68701] \textit{Ribeiro, Celso C.; Rosseti, Isabel}, A parallel GRASP heuristic for the 2-path network design problem, 922-926 [Zbl 1068.68707] \textit{Alba, E.; Almeida, F.; Blesa, M.; Cabeza, J.; Cotta, C.; Díaz, M.; Dorta, I.; Gabarró, J.; León, C.; Luna, J.; Moreno, L.; Pablos, C.; Petit, J.; Rojas, A.; Xhafa, F.}, MALLBA: A library of skeletons for combinatorial optimisation, 927-932 [Zbl 1068.68699] \textit{Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm; Kumar, Mohan; Nikoletseas, Sotiris; Spirakis, Paul}, Mobile computing, mobile networks, 933-934 [Zbl 1068.68555] \textit{Grünewald, Matthias; Lukovszki, Tamás; Schindelhauer, Christian; Volbert, Klaus}, Distributed maintenance of resource efficient wireless network topologies, 935-946 [Zbl 1068.68544] \textit{Clematis, Andrea; D'Agostino, Daniele; Gianuzzi, Vittoria}, A local decision algorithm for maximum lifetime in ad hoc networks, 947-956 [Zbl 1068.68537] \textit{Boukerche, Azzedine; Linus, Joseph; Saurabha, Agarwal}, A performance study of distance source routing based protocols for mobile and wireless ad hoc networks, 957-964 [Zbl 1068.68531] \textit{Jurdziński, Tomasz; Kutyłowski, Mirosław; Zatopiański, Jan}, Weak communication in radio networks, 965-972 [Zbl 1068.68549] \textit{Zaini, Norliza; Moreau, Luc}, Coordination of mobile intermediaries acting on behalf of mobile users, 973-977 [Zbl 1068.68570] \textit{Lin, Chi-Yi; Wang, Szu-Chi; Kuo, Sy-Yen}, An efficient time-based checkpointing protocol for mobile computing systems over wide area networks, 978-982 [Zbl 1068.68553] \textit{Hwang, Sung-Ho; Han, Ki-Jun}, Discriminative collision resolution algorithm for wireless MAC protocol, 983-987 [Zbl 1068.68546]