This is Volume III of the four-volume set LNCS 3991-3994 constituting the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2006. The 98 revised full papers and 29 revised poster papers of the main track presented together with 500 accepted workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the four volumes. The coverage spans the whole range of computational science.
GeoComputation.- Information Registry of Remotely Sensed Meta-module in Grid Environment.- Preliminary Study of Avian Influenza A Infection Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques.- Efficient Coding of Quadtree Nodes.- Special Task Scheduling and Control of Cluster Parallel Computing for High-Performance Ground Processing System.- AMEEPAR: Parallel Morphological Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classification on Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations.- Visual Discovery and Reconstruction of the Climatic Conditions of the Past.- Per-pixel Rendering of Terrain Data.- Spherical Harmonic Transforms Using Quadratures and Least Squares.- Numerical Simulations of Space-Time Conditional Random Fields of Ground Motions.- A GIS Based Virtual Urban Simulation Environment.- Computational Chemistry and Its Applications.- Scientific Workflow Infrastructure for Computational Chemistry on the Grid.- Application of the Reactivity Index to Propose Intra and Intermolecular Reactivity in Catalytic Materials.- Conformational Processes in L-Alanine Studied Using Dual Space Analysis.- Ab initio Modeling of Optical Properties of Organic Molecules and Molecular Complexes.- A Framework for Execution of Computational Chemistry Codes in Grid Environments.- Thermal Characteristics and Measurement of Nanoscale Materials.- Computational Analysis and Simulation of Vacuum Infusion Molding Process.- Forward, Tangent Linear, and Adjoint Runge-Kutta Methods in KPP–2.2.- All-Electron DFT Modeling of SWCNT Growth Initiation by Iron Catalyst.- Ab initio Study of Chiral Recognition of ?-Butyrolactone by Cyclodextrins.- C-H Functionalisation Through Singlet Chlorocarbenes Insertions – MP2 and DFT Investigations.- Theoretical Gas Phase Study of the Gauche and Trans Conformers of 1-Fluoro-2-Haloethanes CH2F-CH2X (X=Cl, Br, I) by Ab Initio and Density Functional Methods: Absence of Gauche Effect.- Model Dependence of Solvent Separated Sodium Chloride Ion Pairs in Water-DMSO Mixtures.- Knowledge and Information Management in Computer Communication Systems (KIMCCS 2006).- Fault Distinguishability of Discrete Event Systems.- Modelling, Analyzing and Control of Interactions Among Agents in MAS.- A Semantic-Driven Cache Management Approach for Mobile Applications.- Fault Tolerance Mechanism of Agent-Based Distributed Event System.- Link Speed Estimation and Incident Detection Using Clustering and Neuro-fuzzy Methods.- A Consensus-Based Multi-agent Approach for Information Retrieval in Internet.- An Adaptive Fuzzy kNN Text Classifier.- Agent-Based Approach for Distributed Intrusion Detection System Design.- A Novel Approach for Similarity Measure Schemes Based on Multiple Moving Objects in Video Databases.- An Ontology for Network Services.- Contextual Synchronization for Online Co-browsing on Peer-to-Peer Environment.- Modelling of Complex Systems by Cellular Automata (MCSCA 2006).- Pedestrian Modelling: A Comparative Study Using Agent-Based Cellular Automata.- Nagel-Schreckenberg Model of Traffic – Study of Diversity of Car Rules.- Path-Planning for Multiple Generic-Shaped Mobile Robots with MCA.- On Modeling and Analyzing Sparsely Networked Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems with Cellular and Graph Automata.- Parallel Implementation of a Cellular Automaton Model for the Simulation of Laser Dynamics.- Emergent Spatial Patterns in Vegetable Population Dynamics: Towards Pattern Detection and Interpretation.- Automata Network Simulator Applied to the Epidemiology of Urban Dengue Fever.- A Picture for Complex Stochastic Boolean Systems: The Intrinsic Order Graph.- Evolutionary Spatial Games Under Stress.- Coalescing Cellular Automata.- Cellular Automata Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Hardware.- Efficient Application of Hybrid 150/90 Cellular Automata to Symmetric Cryptography.- Cellular Automata Preimages: Count and List Algorithm.- Self-synchronization of Cellular Automata: An Attempt to Control Patterns.- On the Decidability of the Evolution of the Fuzzy Cellular Automaton 184.- Cell Dormancy in Cellular Automata.- Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems (DDDAS 2006).- to the ICCS2006 Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems.- Towards Dynamic Data-Driven Management of the Ruby Gulch Waste Repository.- Dynamic Contaminant Identification in Water.- An Adaptive Cyberinfrastructure for Threat Management in Urban Water Distribution Systems.- Model-Driven Dynamic Control of Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks.- WIPER: The Integrated Wireless Phone Based Emergency Response System.- Dynamic Data Driven Application Simulation of Surface Transportation Systems.- DDDAS for Fire and Agent Evacuation Modeling of the Rhode Island Nightclub Fire.- Auto-steered Information-Decision Processes for Electric System Asset Management.- Data-Driven Power System Operations.- Towards a Dynamic Data Driven System for Structural and Material Health Monitoring.- The Omni Macroprogramming Environment for Sensor Networks.- Evaluation of Fluid-Thermal Systems by Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems.- Inversion of Airborne Contaminants in a Regional Model.- Data Assimilation Using the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model.- Amplitude-Position Formulation of Data Assimilation.- Detection of Tornados Using an Incremental Revised Support Vector Machine with Filters.- A Generic Multi-scale Modeling Framework for Reactive Observing Systems: An Overview.- Demonstrating the Validity of a Wildfire DDDAS.- Development of a Computational Paradigm for Laser Treatment of Cancer.- Blood Flow at Arterial Branches: Complexities to Resolve for the Angioplasty Suite.- A New Architecture for Deriving Dynamic Brain-Machine Interfaces.- Dynamically Adaptive Tracking of Gestures and Facial Expressions.- Intelligent Management of Data Driven Simulations to Support Model Building in the Social Sciences.- Capturing Scientists’ Insight for DDDAS.- An MDA-Based Modeling and Design of Service Oriented Architecture.- Advanced Data Driven Visualisation for Geo-spatial Data.- Design and Analysis of Test Signals for System Identification.- The Research on the Method of Process-Based Knowledge Catalog and Storage and Its Application in Steel Product R&D.- Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithms for Diverse Applications in a Distributed Setting.- Small WebComputing Applied to Distributed Monte Carlo Calculations.- Monte Carlo Grid Application for Electron Transport.- A Monte Carlo Algorithm for State and Parameter Estimation of Extended Targets.- Error Analysis of a Monte Carlo Algorithm for Computing Bilinear Forms of Matrix Powers.- Comparison of the Computational Cost of a Monte Carlo and Deterministic Algorithm for Computing Bilinear Forms of Matrix Powers.- International Workshop on Intelligent Storage Technology (IST06).- Performance Analysis of the Cache Conscious-Generalized Search Tree.- A Database Redo Log System Based on Virtual Memory Disk.- Design and Implementation of an Out-of-Band Virtualization System on Solaris 10.- High Performance Virtual Backup and Archive System.- Insurable Storage Services: Creating a Marketplace for Long-Term Document Archival.- Multi-dimensional Storage QoS Guarantees for an Object-Based Storage System.- Design and Implementation of a Random Data-Placement System with High Scalability, Reliability and Performance.- Intelligent Agents in Computing Systems.- Learning in a Multi-agent System as a Mean for Effective Resource Management.- Multicriterial Decision-Making in Multiagent Systems.- JADE-Based A-Team Environment.- Agent Factory Micro Edition: A Framework for Ambient Applications.- Crises Management in Multiagent Workflow Systems.- Agent Architecture for Mesh Based Simulation Systems.- The Application of Agents to Parallel Mesh Refinements in Domain Decomposition Based Parallel Fully Automatic hp Adaptive Finite Element Codes.- Multiagent Simulation of Physical Phenomena by Means of Aspect Programming.- Modelling Tactical Driving Manoeuvres with GA-INTACT.- Agent-Based Mobile Robots Navigation Framework.- The Autonomous Concurrent Strategy for Large Scale CAE Computation.- Dynamic Resource Allocation Mechanism for Network Interconnection Management.- Computing MAS Dynamics Considering the Background Load.- Using Adaptive Agents for the Fault-Tolerant Mobile Computing System.- A Multi-agent Approach to Resource Sharing Optimization in User Networks.- Heterogeneous Behavior Evaluations in Ethically–Social Approach to Security in Multi-agent System.- Semi-elitist Evolutionary Multi-agent System for Multiobjective Optimization.- Agent-Based Evolutionary Model for Knowledge Acquisition in Dynamical Environments.- Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Controlled Diversity.- Intelligent Agents as Cells of Immunological Memory.- Negative Selection with Ranking Procedure in Tabu-Based Multi-criterion Evolutionary Algorithm for Task Assignment.- Multi-objective Optimization Using Co-evolutionary Multi-agent System with Host-Parasite Mechanism.- Development of Multi Agent Resource Conversion Processes Model and Simulation System.- Designing Floor-Layouts with the Assistance of Curious Agents.- Supporting Software Agents by the Graph Transformation Systems.- The Outline of the Strategy for Solving Knowledge Inconsistencies in a Process of Agents’ Opinions Integration.- Agent-Based Service Discovery Middleware in Ubiquitous Environments.- An Intelligent Middleware Architecture for Context-Aware Service Discovery.- Mobile Agent Based Publication Alerting System.- Maintaining Diversity in Agent-Based Evolutionary Computation.- First International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science (WSES06).- Automatic Transformation from Geospatial Conceptual Workflow to Executable Workflow Using GRASS GIS Command Line Modules in Kepler.- A Three Tier Architecture for LiDAR Interpolation and Analysis.- Workflows for Wind Tunnel Grid Applications.- Distributed Execution of Workflows.- Applying Workflow to Experiment Control in Virtual Laboratory.- Integration of Compute-Intensive Tasks into Scientific Workflows in BeesyCluster.- A Distributed Re-configurable Grid Workflow Engine.- Adding Instruments and Workflow Support to Existing Grid Architectures.- Workflow Deployment in ICENI II.- Agent-Based Middleware Architecture for Workflow in Grid Portals.- Cooperative Processes for Scientific Workflows.- Semantic Tools for Workflow Construction.- Stochastic Modeling and Quality Evaluation of Workflow Systems Based on QWF-Nets.- Styx Grid Services: Lightweight, Easy-to-Use Middleware for Scientific Workflows.- Automatic Services Composition in the Grid Environments.- A Non-intrusive and Incremental Approach to Enabling Direct Communications in RPC-Based Grid Programming Systems.- Enacting Proactive Workflows Engine in e-Science.- Networks: Structure and Dynamics.- Traffic Noise and Maximum-Flow Spanning Trees on Growing and Static Networks.- Local Information Based Algorithms for Packet Transport in Complex Networks.- Empirical Analysis of the Spatial Genetic Algorithm on Small-World Networks.- An Evolution Process Model for the Internet Topology.- Attack Strategies on Complex Networks.- Elementary Modules in Games Networks.- A New Analysis Method for Complex Network Based on Dynamics of Spin Diffusion.- Simulation of Micro-, Grand-, and Canonical Ensembles of Complex Networks.- Synchronization in Network Structures: Entangled Topology as Optimal Architecture for Network Design.- Dynamics of Content-Based Networks.- Social Connections and Access Charges in Networks.- Topology of Cell-Aggregated Planar Graphs.- Geographical Construction of Scale-Free Networks with Both Short Path Lengths and Hops.- Collaborative Tagging as a Tripartite Network.
