ICDCS 2006

The 26th International Conference on

Distributed Computing Systems

Haruhisa Ichikawa, 

NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan

Michel Raynal, 

Mustaque Ahamad,

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Luís Rodrigues,

Vice Chairs and Committee Members

Area and Vice Chair

Program Committee

Algorithms and Theory:

Philippas Tsigas,

Chalmers, Sweden

Hagit Attiya,

Technion, Israel

Ajoy K. Datta,

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Danny Dolev,

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Shlomi Dolev,

Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Pierre Fraigniaud,

CNRS, France

Jaap-Henk Hoepman,

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Neetherlands

Evangelos Kranakis,

Carleton University, Canada

Danny Krizanc,

Wesleyan University, USA

Toshimitsu Masuzawa,

Osaka University, Japan

Ulrich Meyer,

Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany

Mark Moir,

Sun Microsystems Laboratories , USA

Achour Mostefaoui,

JIfsic/Irisa, University of Rennes 1, France

Sergio Rajsbaum,

UNAM, Mexico

Rüdiger Reischuk,

Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

Michael L. Scott.

University of Rochester, USA

Sebastien Tixeuil,

LRI & INRIA Grand Large, France

Paul Vitanyi,

CWI and University of Amsterdam, The Neetherlands

Yi Zhang,

University of Birmingham, UK

Autonomic Computing:

Manish Parashar,

Rutgers, The State U. of New Jersey, USA

Ozalp Babaoglu,

University of Bologna, Italy

Leonard Barolli,

Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

José A.B. Fortes,

University Of Florida, USA

Kurt Geihs,

University of Kassel, Germany

Kumar Goswami,

HP Labs, USA

Salim Hariri,

University of Arizona, USA

Vijay Karamcheti,

New York University, USA

Joseph Hellerstein,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Philip McKinley,

Michigan State University, USA

Daniel A. Menasce,

George Mason University, USA

Dejan Milojicic,

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA

Omer Rana,

Cardiff University, UK

Karsten Schwan,

Georgia Tech, USA

Vaidy Sunderam,

Emory University, USA

Joe Sventek,

University of Glasgow, Scotland

Cristian Ungureanu,

NEC Laboratories America,

Yi-Min Wang,

Microsoft Research, USA

Mazin Yousif,

Intel Corporation, USA

Albert Zomaya,

University of Western Australia, Australia,

Data Management:

Karl Aberer,

EPFL, Switzerland

Klemens Böhm,

University Karlsruhe, Germany

Alejandro Buchmann,

Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Tiziana Catarci,

University Rome, Italy

Ugur Cetintemel,

Brown University, USA

Ming-Syan Chen,

National Taiwan University, Taipei, ROC

Brian Cooper,

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Asuman Dogac,

Middle East Technical University (METU)

Shahram Ghandeharizadeh,

University of Southern California, USA

Dimitrios Gunopulos,

University of California, Riverside, USA

H. V. Jagadish,

University of Michigan, USA

Masaru Kitsuregawa,

Tokyo University, Japan

Donald Kossmann,

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Manolis Koubarakis,

Technical University of Crete, Grece

Alexandros Labrinidis,

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Qing Li,

City University of Hong Kong, China

Witold Litwin,

Université Paris 9 Dauphine, France

Wolfgang Nejdl,

University Hannover, The Netherlands

Evaggelia Pitoura,

University of Ioannina, Grece

Tore Risch,

Uppsala University, Sweden

Mema Roussopoulos,

Harvard University, USA

Ouri Wolfson,

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Fault-Tolerance and Dependability:

Eliane Martins,

UNICAMP, Brasil

Adnan Agbaria,

Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA

Jiannong Cao,

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Bojan Cukic,

West Virginia University, USA

Michel Cukier,

University of Maryland, USA

Mario Dal Cin,

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Xavier Defago,

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan

Klaus Echtle,

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Felicita Di Giandomenico,

Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo", Italy

Fabíola Greve,

Univ. Federal da Bahia, Brasil

Karama Kanoun,

LAAS-CNRS, France

Yvan Labiche,

University of Carleton, Canada

Rogério de Lemos,

University of Kent, UK

Henrique Madeira,

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Istvan Majzik,

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Rui Oliveira,

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Fernando Pedone,

University of Lugano, Switzerland

Luigi Romano,

University of Naples, Italy

Cecilia Rubira,

IC-Unicamp, Brasil

Juan Carlos Ruiz,

University of Valencia, Spain

Jorge Moreira de Souza,

FITEc/Lucent, Brasil

Daniel Varró,

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Paulo Verissímo,

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Taisy Weber,

Univ. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Avelino Zorzo,

Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Internet Computing and Applications:

Ling Liu,

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Mic Bowman,

Intel, USA

David Buttler,

Lawance Livermore National Lab (LLNL), USA

John B. Carter,

University of Utah, USA

Songqing Chen,

George Mason University, USA

Partha Dasgupta,

Arizona State University, USA

Brett D. Fleisch,

National Science Foundation, USA

Arun Iyengar,

IBM TJ Watson, USA

Jean-Henry Morin,

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Hai Jin,

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China

Padma Mundur,

University of Maryland Baltimore County,USA

Jussi Myllymaki,

IBM Almaden, USA

Tamer Ozsu,

University of Waterloo, Canada

Louiqa Raschid,

University of Maryland, USA

Krithi Ramamritham,

IIT, Bombay, India

Lakshmish Ramaswamy,

UGA, USA

Mukesh Singhal,

University of Kentucky, USA

Shirley L. Xiong,

Emory University, USA

Philip S. Yu,

IBM TJ Watson, USA

Xiaodong Zhang,

College of William and Mary, USA

Xiaofang Zhou,

University of Queernsland, Australia

Network Protocols:

Katherine Guo,

Bell Labs, USA

Kevin Almeroth,

UC Santa Barbara, USA

Marinho P. Barcellos,

Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil

Ernst Biersack,

Institut Eurecom, France

Milind Buddihkot,

Bell Laboratories, USA

Ken Calvert,

University of Kentucky, USA

Ana Cavalli,

Institut National des Telecommunications (INT Evry), France

Mun Choon Chan,

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sajal Das,

University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Luiz DaSilva,

Virginia Tech, USA

Xiaoming Fu,

University of Goettingen, Germany

Lixin Gao,

University of Massachusetts, USA

Tim Griffin,

University of Cambridge, England

Sneha Kasera,

University of Utah, USA

Baochun Li,

University of Toronto, Canada

Samphel Norden,

Bell Laboratories, USA

E. K. Park,

University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA

Daji Qiao,

Iowa State University, USA

Injong Rhee,

North Carolina State University, USA

Michael Vernick,

Avaya Labs Research,  USA

Haining Wang,

College of William and Mary, USA

Yang Xiao,

University of Memphis, USA

Yuanyuan Yang,

The State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

Lixia Zhang,

UCLA, USA

Yin Zhang,

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Rong Zheng,

University of Houston, USA

Operating Systems and Middleware:

Roy Friedman,

Technion, Israel

Yair Amir,

John Hopkins University, USA

Jean Bacon,

University of Cambridge, UK

Ken Birman,

Cornell University, USA

Gordon Blair,

Lancaster University, UK

Vinny Cahill,

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

H.-Arno Jacobsen,

University of Toronto, Canada

Rachid Guerraoui,

EPFL, Switzerland and MIT, USA

Matti Hiltunen,

AT&T Labs Research, USA

Valerie Issarny,

INRIA, France

Bettina Kemme,

McGill University, Canada

Anne-Marie Kermarrec,

IRISA, France

Edmundo Madeira,

University of Campinas, Brazil

Sape Mullender,

Lucent Bell Labs, USA

José Pereira,

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Bill Sanders,

University of Illinois, USA

Neeraj Suri,

TU Darmstadt, Germany

Amin Vahdat

University of California, San Diego, USA

Maarten van Steen,

Vrije Uninersiteit, The Netherlands

Steve Vinoski,

IONA Tecnologies, USA

Antonino Virgillito,

University of Rome, Italy

Roman Vitenberg,

IBM Research, Israel

Parallel, Cluster and GRID Computing:

Tarek S. Abdelrahman,

University of Toronto, Canada

Cristiana Amza,

University of Toronto, Canada

David A. Bader,

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Angelos Bilas,

FORTH and University of Crete, Greece

Tim Brecht,

University of Waterloo, Canada

Francisco Vilar Brasileiro

Federal University of Campina Grande, Brasil

Rudolf Eigenmann

Purdue Univ., USA

Wu-chun Feng,

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Erik D'Hollander,

University of Ghent, Belgium

Tarek El-Ghazawi,

George Washington University, USA

Ashvin Goel,

University of Toronto, Canada

Y. Charlie Hu,

Purdue University, USA

Tong Liu

HPCC Development, Dell Inc.

Steve MacDonald,

University of Waterloo, Canada

Naraig Manjikian

Queen's University, Canada

Kavitha Ranganathan,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Anand Sivasubramaniam,

The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Xian-He Sun,

Illinois Inst. of Technology, USA

Duane Szafron,

University of Alberta, Canada

Parimala Thulasiraman,

Peer to Peer:

Bobby Bhattacharjee,

University of Maryland, USA

Bob Apduhan,

Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Fabián E. Bustamante,

Northwestern University, USA

Henrique João L. Domingos,

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Zongming Fei,

University of Kentucky, USA

Pascal Felber,

Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Minaxi Gupta,

Indiana University, USA

Y. Charlie Hu,

Purdue University, USA

Mark Jelasity,

University of Bologna, Italy

Jasleen Kaur,

University of North Carolina, USA

Wang-Chien Lee,

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Yunhao Liu,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Vishal Misra,

Columbia University, USA

Sanjay G. Rao,

Purdue University, USA

Dan Rubenstein,

Columbia University, USA

Kyung Dong Ryu,

IBM Research, USA

James Sterbenz,

University of Kansas, USA

Alan Sussman,

University of Maryland, USA

Zhichen Xu,

Yahoo! Inc., USA

Dong Xuan,

The Ohio State University, USA

Bill Yeager,

Dynamical Systems Research, Ltd.

Ben Y. Zhao,

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Security:

Christian Cachin,

IBM Zurich Research Laboratoty, Switzerland

Doug Blough,

Georgia Tech, USA

Marc Dacier,

Eurécom, France

Christof Fetzer,

Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Juan Garay,

Lucent Bell Labs, USA

Virgil Gligor,

University of Maryland at College Park, USA

Peter Honeyman,

University of Michigan, USA

Angelos D. Keromytis,

Columbia University, USA

Yongdae Kim,

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

Hugo Krawczyk,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Lau Cheuk Lung,

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil

Daniel Massey,

Colorado State University, USA

Paul C. Van Oorschot,

Carleton University, Canada

Benny Pinkas,

HP Labs, Israel

Reto Strobl,

Sensor networks and Ubiquitous Computing:

Tarek Abdelzaher,

University of Virginia, USA

Deborah Estrin,

UCLA, USA

Deepak Ganesan,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Tian He,

University of Minnesota, USA

Wendi Heinzelman,

University of Rochester, USA

Bhaskar Krishnamachari,

University of Southern California, USA

Koen Langendoen,

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Chenyang Lu,

Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Haiyun Luo,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Mikhail Nesterenko,

Kent State University, USA

John Regehr,

University of Utah, USA

Jim Reich,

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA

Kurt Rothermel,

Stuttgart University, Germany

Jack Stankovic,

University of Virginia, USA

Eduardo Tovar,

Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal

Chieh-Yih Wan,

Intel Labs, USA

Ying Zhang,

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA

Feng Zhao,

Microsoft Research, USA

Wireless and Mobile Computing:

Arup Acharya,

IBM Research, USA

Khalil Amiri,

Imperial College, London UK

Suman Banerjee,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Tzi-cker Chiueh,

State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

Sunghyun Choi,

Seoul National University, Korea

Jennifer Hou,

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

Serge Fdida,

University Pierre and Marie Curie, France

Geng-sheng Kuo,

National  Chengchi University, Taiwan

Hiroyuki Morikawa,

University of Tokyo, Japan

C. Siva Ram Murthy,

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Thyaga Nandagopal,

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA

Lili Qui,

University of Texas, Austin, USA

Nuno Preguiça,

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Bhaskaran Raman,

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Jason Redi,

BBN Technologies, USA

Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez,

Microsoft Research, UK

Henning Schulzrinne,

Columbia University, USA

Sai Shankar,

Qualcomm, USA

Cedric Westphal,

Nokia Research, USA

Makoto Takizawa,

Tokyo Denki University, japan

Ricardo Jiménez-Peris,

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Ten H. Lai,

Ohio State University, USA

Anish Arora,

Ohio State University, USA

Joseph E. Urban,

Arizona State University, USA

Filipe Araújo,

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

José Rufino,

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

António Casimiro,

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Chita Das,

Penn State University, USA

Ming T. (Mike) Liu,