8:30-8:40	Opening General Chair: Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Program Co-Chairs: Hidenori Nakazato, Waseda University, Japan Dimitrios N. Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Anish Arora, Ohio-State University, USA
8:40-10:10 Session 1 Load Balancing: Dr. Chih-wen Hsueh, National Chung Cheng University	Autonomous Process or Go Navigation Technology for Congestion Avoidance in Distributed Information Service System, Misato Tasaka, Hélène Arfaoui, Teruyoshi Zenmyo, and Kinji Mori
	Adaptable Load Balancing Using Network Transferable Computer Associated with Mobile IP, Megumi Hisayuki, Shinji Inoue, Yoshiaki Kakuda, Kenji Toda, and Kuniyasu Suzaki
	A Parallel Downloading Method of Coping with Variable Bandwidth, Junichi Funasaka, Nozomi Nakawaki, Kenji Ishida, and Kitsutaro Amano
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Session 2 Security: Dr. Dong Xuan, Ohio State University	Convergence of IPsec in Presence of Resets, Chin-Tser Huang, Mohamed G. Gouda, and E. N. Elnozahy
	Pulse: A Class of Super-Worms against Network Infrastructure, A. G. Voyiatzis and D. N. Serpanos
11:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session 3 Systems and Tools: Dr. Masaki Aida, NTT	Autonomous Cooperation Technologies for Achieving Real Time Property and Fault Tolerance in Service Oriented Community System, Naohiro Kaji, Khaled Ragab, Takanori Ono, and Kinji Mori
	A Real-Time Scheduling Approach for A Web-based Rapid Prototyping Manufacturing Platform, Hsin-hung Lin, Chih-wen Hsueh, and Chung-hung Chen
	Engineering Tools to Support Interoperability in the Development and Maintenance of Heterogeneous Distributed Real-Time Control Systems, A. S. Prayati, A. P. Kalogeras, K. Lorentz, and S. Koubias
15:00-15:20	Coffee Break
15:20-16:20 Session 4 Network Control: Dr. Kenji Ishida, Hiroshima City University	On the Stability of Autonomous Decentralized Flow Control in High-Speed Networks with Asymmetric Configurations, Chisa Takano, Masaki Aida, and Shin-ichi Kuribayashi
	Simulated Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid MAC-Layer Protocol for Dependable Multi-Channel Distributed Systems  with Hard-Real-Time Requirements, S. A. Koubias
16:20-17:20 Session 5 Fault Tolerance: Dr. Stavros Koubias, University of Patras	Survivable Multi-Level Ad-Hoc Group Operations, Dan Zhou and Jie Wu
	An Optimal Early Stopping Uniform Consensus Protocol in Synchronous Distributed Systems with Orderly Crash Failures, Xianbing Wang and Jiannong Cao
17:20-17:30	Closing Vice Chair: Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan