Message from the
MDC05 Chairs
Welcome to MDC05! Following the success of the first two workshops MDC03, held
in conjunction with ICDCS03 in Providence, Rhode Island USA and MDC04 with
ICDCS04 in Tokyo, Japan, MDC05 provides a forum for scientists and engineers
in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas,
research results, and products about all aspects of mobile distributed
computing.
The mobility of users together with their personal/wearable computing devices
and the special characteristics of mobile environments, such as highly variable
connectivity, disconnection, location-dependency, and energy and resource
sensitivity, and the diversity and flexibility introduced by mobile systems
bring new challenges for research in distributed computing. Mobile distributed
computing has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and
practice toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions
using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to enable the
sharing of distributed resources/services and to facilitate remote
collaborations while people work away from the fixed, wired facilities. The
principal theme of this workshop is the development of distributed algorithms,
system level mechanisms, and applications for mobile computing environments. It
also covers the underlying network environments and databases support.
This year, MDC05 received 41 papers. Each paper was reviewed by two to three
members of the Program Committee or external reviewers. The final program
includes 11 regular papers and 8 short papers, which cover a range of different
topics related to mobile distributed computing, including mobile data
management, wireless and sensor networks, resource sharing and cooperation,
mobile agents, mobile peer-to-peer computing, and security. In addition, one
invited contribution in ad hoc wireless networks further enriches the content of
this high quality program. We congratulate the authors of accepted papers, and
regret many quality submissions could not be included, due to the space limit of
this program.
The organizing committee wants to thank all the submission authors for their
contributions to the program. We are grateful that Professor Jie Wu accepted our
invitation for the keynote presentation. We would also like to thank the PC
members and external reviewers for their in-depth and timely reviews of the
papers. Without their help and advice this program would not be possible. Mr.
Hui Cheng has done an excellent job as a Web master and a coordinator of the
review process. We also want to thank Prof. Philip Mckinley, ICDCS05 Workshop
Chair, for his help and guidance in the organization of this workshop.
Hope you all enjoy the workshop.
Program Committee Chairs: Cheng-Zhong Xu, Guohong Cao, and Weijia Jia
General Chairs: Jiannong Cao and Sajal Das