ISBN: 0-8186-7819-4

Tsuneo Ikedo, Computer Architecture Lab., The University of Aizu

Naoko Tosa, ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories

Ryohei Nakatsu, ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories

J. Leigh, Electron. Visualization Lab., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

A.E. Johnson, Electron. Visualization Lab., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL, USA

Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroshima City University

Akira Amano, Hiroshima City University

Kaori Maeda, Hiroshima City University

Yasuaki Nakamura, Hiroshima City University

Kaduo Hiraki, Hiroshima City University

Mutsuhiro Terauchi, Hiroshima City University

Reiji Aibara, Hiroshima University

Kouji Nishimura, Hiroshima University

Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University

Liyanage C. de Silva

Tsutomu Miyasato

Fumio Kishino

Thomas Berlage, German National Research Center for Information Technology Institute for Applied Information Technology

Thorsten Fox, German National Research Center for Information Technology Institute for Applied Information Technology

Gernoth Grunst, German National Research Center for Information Technology Institute for Applied Information Technology

Klaus-Jourgen Quast, German National Research Center for Information Technology Institute for Applied Information Technology

Hajime Yoshikawa

Jun-ichi Yokosato

Satoshi Tanaka

J. Huang, Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

P.-J. Wan, Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Ngoh Lek Heng

Amit G. Mathur

Atul Prakash

C.J. Sreenan, Bell Lab., Lucent Technol., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Kiyokuni Kawachiya, IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory

Martin Moser, Tohoku University, RIEC, Department of Computer Science

T. Nakajima, Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ishikawa, Japan

R. Simon, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA

T. Znati, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA

R.J. Sclabassi, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Pittsburgh Univ., PA, USA

Seungyup Paek

Gabriel Dermler, University of Stuttgart Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR)

Walter Fiederer, University of Stuttgart Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR)

Ingo Barth, University of Stuttgart Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR)

Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart Institute of Parallel and Distributed High-Performance Systems (IPVR)

Charu C. Aggarwal

Joel L. Wolf

Philip S. Yu

Wu-chi Feng, EECS Department, University of Michigan

Farnam Jahanian, EECS Department, University of Michigan

Stuart Sechrest, EECS Department, University of Michigan

Tsun-Ping J. To, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology,Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Babak Hamidzadeh, Department of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology,Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Renu Tewari

Rajat Mukherjee

Daniel M. Dias

Harrick M. Vin

Ernst Biersack

F. Thiesse

Christoph Bernhardt

Hung-Ju Lee, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Jyh-Charn Liu, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Yuewei Wang

Jonathan C.L. Liu

David H.C. Du

Jenwei Hsieh

Kun-Lung Wu

Philip S. Yu

Banu Ozden, Bell Laboratories

Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Laboratories

Avi Silberschatz, Bell Laboratories

Yeon Seung Ryu, Seoul National University, KOREA

Kern Koh, Seoul National University, KOREA

Sreenivas Gollapudi, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo

Aidong Zhang, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo

Venkat N. Gudivada, Ohio University

Gwang S. Jung, Jackson State University

Atushi Ono, Information Systems Product Development Lab., SHARP Co. Institute of Industrial Science, Yarnatokooriyama, Nara

Masashi Amano, Information Systems Product Development Lab., SHARP Co. Institute of Industrial Science, Yarnatokooriyama, Nara

Mitsuhiro Hakaridani, Information Systems Product Development Lab., SHARP Co. Institute of Industrial Science, Yarnatokooriyama, Nara

Takashi Satoh, Univ. of Tokyo, MinaLto-ku, Tokyo

Masao Sakauchi, Univ. of Tokyo, MinaLto-ku, Tokyo

Tony C.T. Kuo

Arbee L.P. Chen

Alberto Del Bimbo

Pietro Pala

Simone Santini

Jacopo M. Corridoni

Alberto del Bimbo

Silvio de Magistris

Atsushi Hiroike, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Yasuhide Mori, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Akito Sakurai, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

V.V. Vinod, NTT Basic Res. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

H. Murase, NTT Basic Res. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

C. Hashizume, NTT Basic Res. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Daniel F. Zucker

Michael J. Flynn

Ruby B. Lee

S. Jha, Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia

M. Fry, Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Charu C. Aggarwal

Joel L. Wolf

Philip S. Yu

Vijnan Shastri, Centre for Electronics Design Technology , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Andre Pittet, Centre for Electronics Design Technology , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

P.Venkat Rangan, Department of Computer Science, University of California at San Diego, CA, USA

V. Rajaraman, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Srihari Sampath Kumar, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington at St. Louis, MO, USA

Carol Hubbard

Ole Jakob Mengshoel

Chris Moon

Yong Se Kim

Michelle Y. Kim, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Nelson R. Manohar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Atul Prakash, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

K. Selcuk Candan

V.S. Subrahmanian

P. Venkat Rangan

Cherif Keramane

Andrzej Duda

Paul Pazandak, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Jaideep Srivastava, Dept. of Comput. Sci., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

David Lowe, Sch. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Mark Sifer, Sch. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW, Australia

Minerva Yeung, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Bede Liu, Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Boon-Lock Yeo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Yuh-Lin Chang, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Panasonic Technologies, Inc.

Wenjun Zeng, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Panasonic Technologies, Inc.

Ibrahim Kamel, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Panasonic Technologies, Inc.

Rafael Alonso, Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory Panasonic Technologies, Inc.

Rainer Lienhart, Praktische Informatik IV, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Silvia Pfeiffer, Praktische Informatik IV, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Wolfgang Effelsberg, Praktische Informatik IV, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Yoshitomo Yaginuma, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo

Masahiro Shibata

Yeun-Bae Kim

M Washisaka

T. Takada

S. Aoyagi

R. Onai

T. Watanabe

C-W Lee

A. Tsukamoto

M. Yachidu

Kiyohide Satoh

Itaru Kitahara

Yuichi Ohta

Saied Moezzi

Arun Katkere

Don Y. Kuramura

Ramesh Jain

Stuart Goose, University of Southampton, Multimedia Research Laboratory, Southampton, UK

Jonathan Dale, University of Southampton, Multimedia Research Laboratory, Southampton, UK

Gary Hill, University of Southampton, Multimedia Research Laboratory, Southampton, UK

Dave de Roure, University of Southampton, Multimedia Research Laboratory, Southampton, UK

Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, Multimedia Research Laboratory, Southampton, UK

Ernst Biersack

Werner Geyer

Christoph Bernhardt

Xiaobao Chen

Chris Drummond, University of Ottawa

Dan Ionescu, University of Ottawa

Robert Holte, University of Ottawa

Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa

Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa

Akio Ichikawa, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Katsunori Yamaoka, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Toshiyuki Yoshida, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Sakai, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Minglu Li, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Yongqiang Sun, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Huanye Sheng, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China

Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University

Steven K. C. Lo, Tamkang University

Szu-Jan Fu, Tamkang University

Julian B. Chang, Tamkang University

Junehwa Song, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Yurdaer N. Doganata, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Michelle Y. Kim, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Asser N. Tantawi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

A. Caloini, C&C Inf. Technol. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

E. Tanaka, C&C Inf. Technol. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

R. Willrich

P. Sénac

M. Diaz

P. de Saqui-Sannes

H. Kikuchi, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

Y. Mishina, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

M. Ashizawa, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

N. Yamazaki, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

H. Fujisawa, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.

Yuichi Yagawa, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Noriyuki Iwai, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Kunihiro Yanagi, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Keiji Kojima, Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Y. Theodoridis

M. Vazirgiannis

T. Sellis

Guang-Ho Cha, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Chin-Wan Chung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

A. Yoshitaka, Fac. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

M. Yoshimitsu, Fac. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

M. Hirakawa, Fac. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

T. Ichikawa, Fac. of Eng., Hiroshima Univ., Japan

K. Kaneko, Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

A. Makinouchi, Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

M. Aritsugi, Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Hiroshi Arisawa

Takashi Tomii

Kiril Salev

Laurence Boney

Ahmed H. Tewfik

Khaled N. Hamdy

B. Parvin, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

J. Taylor, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

B. Crowley, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

L. Wu, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

W. Johnston, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

D. Owen, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

M.A. O'Keefe, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

U. Dahmen, Div. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

Yuichi Nakamura

Miwa Takahashi

Masayuki Onda

Yuichi Ohta

Chieko Asakawa

Y. Ohsawa, Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Saitama Univ., Urawa, Japan

M. Miyazaki, Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Saitama Univ., Urawa, Japan

Toshinori Yamasaki, Kagawa University

Tetsuo Hattori, Kagawa University

Hain-Ching Liu, DiviCom Inc., Milpitas, CA, USA

G.L. Zick, DiviCom Inc., Milpitas, CA, USA

J. Ohnishi

K. Matsui

Noriyuki Terada, NTT Multimedia Systems Department

Hiroshi Ishii, NTT Multimedia Systems Department

Takeshi Tachi, NTT Multimedia Systems Department

Yasuyuki Okumura, NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratories

Hiroshi Kotera, NTT Human Interface Laboratories

Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jonathan M. Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Zhang Maojun, Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Math., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

Hu Xiaofeng, Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Math., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

Yang Bing, Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Math., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

Ku Xishu, Dept. of Syst. Eng. & Math., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha, China

Chun-Hung Lin, National Taiwan University

Ja-Ling Wu, National Taiwan University

Tzi-cker Chiueh

Li-chun Wang

S. Damaskos, GMD - FOKUS, Hardenbergplatz

H. F. Salama, CACC-North Carolina State University

Amit Gupta

Kurt Rothermel

Manuel Billot, Thomson Multimedia, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, FRANCE

Valerie Issarny, Inria, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, FRANCE

Michel Banatre, Inria, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, FRANCE

Isabelle Puaut, Insa, IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, FRANCE

Huanxu Pan

Lek Heng Ngoh

Aurel A. Lazar

B. Ozden, AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

R. Rastogi, AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

A. Silberschatz, AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Robert Flynn, Polytechnic University

William Tetzlaff, IBM T. J. Watson Research

James Z. Wang, University of Central Florida

Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida

Honesty C. Young, IBM Almaden Research Center

K W Ng, City University of Hong Kong

K H Yeung, City University of Hong Kong

Freddy Deppner

Benoit Gennart

Roger D. Hersch Ecole