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The following topics are dealt with: robust communication system; Internet computing; Web applications; wireless mesh networks; fault tolerant systems; vehicular networks; energy-efficient wireless sensor networks; intelligent systems; distributed database; data mining; communication protocols; pervasive computing; intelligent computing; intelligent networks; distributed systems; distributed networking; semantics computing; semantics networks; mobile ad hoc networks; routing; P2P networks; trusted computing; cloud computing; QoS; service-oriented architecture; social networking; multimedia; authentication system security; cryptographic techniques; green computing; autonomic computing; dependable systems; SOA; ubiquitous computing; peer-to-peer computing; and scalable systems.