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The following topics are dealt with: cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery; wireless body area networks; information system; multi-classifier strategy; heterogeneous databases; spatial data mining; distributed database; parallel database; wireless ad hoc networks; multi-channel wireless mesh networks; WLAN environments; data compression; mobile networks; underwater acoustic sensor networks; middleware; Web browser; service discovery; signcryption schemes; active queue management; multi-agent systems; self-healing architectures; decision tree machine learning; least squares support vector machines; MPS Techniques; distributed Monte Carlo simulation; row-oriented database; shortest path routing algorithm; parallel hierarchical clustering algorithm; PRAM model.