Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks -- A Simple Statistical Methodology for Testing Ad Hoc Networks -- Sensor-Actuator Communication Protocols in Wireless Networks -- The Effect of Routing Protocol Dynamics on TCP Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Battery and Power Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Wireless Balloon Network for Disaster Information System -- Wireless Networks as an Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Business Applications -- Network Security -- The DecoyPort: Redirecting Hackers to Honeypots -- Network Security Improvement with Isolation Implementation Based on ISO-17799 Standard -- Positive and Negative Authorizations to Access Protected Web Resources -- An Analysis of Mobile WiMAX Security: Vulnerabilities and Solutions -- An Automatic Meta-revised Mechanism for Anti-malicious Injection -- SKEMON: A Simple Certificate-Less Method for Key Exchange by Using Mobile Network -- Secure System Applications -- A Secure Authentication Scheme for a Public Terminal Before a Transaction -- Development and Evaluation of New User Interface for Security Scanner with Usability in Human Interface Study -- A Key Predistribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Using the Small-World Concept -- Multigroup Rekeying for a Wireless Network -- Web Technologies and Middleware Systems -- Rich Internet Architectures for Browser-Based Multiplayer Real-Time Games – Design and Implementation Issues of virtual-kicker.com -- Distribution of Lecture Concepts and Relations in Digital Contents -- Design of the Middleware Enabling Context Awareness and Energy Optimizing for Smart Environment -- Multilayer Quality and Grade of Service Support for High Speed GMPLS IP/DWDM Networks -- Distributed Systems and Applications -- Implementing Range Queries with a Decentralized Balanced Tree over Distributed Hash Tables -- Byzantine-Tolerant, Information Propagation in Untrustworthy and Unreliable Networks -- COMICS: A Global Constraint Manager for Interactive Component Database Systems -- Guidelines for Network Service Pricing: An Extended Model Considering Increase of Network Users -- Scheduling -- Role-Based Scheduling and Synchronization Algorithms to Prevent Illegal Information Flow -- A Probabilistic Multi-agent Scheduler Implemented in JXTA -- Scheduling Real-Time Requests in On-Demand Broadcast Environments -- A Fair Replica Placement for Parallel Download on Cluster Grid -- Network Analysis -- Querying Similarity in Metric Social Networks -- Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Probabilistic Flooding Using Local Density Information in MANETs -- A Token Bucket Model with Assured Forwarding for Web Traffic -- An Analytical Approach to the Efficient Real-Time Events/Services Handling in Converged Network Environment -- Command Transition Probability Analysis on Mobile Internet Command Sequences -- A Solution for Congestion and Performance Enhancement by Dynamic Packet Bursting in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- P2P Systems and Applications -- Empirical Study of Design Pattern Usage in Peer-to-Peer Systems -- Improvement of JXTA Protocols for Supporting Reliable Distributed Applications in P2P Systems -- A Ring Infrastructure for Neighbor-Centric Peer-to-Peer Applications -- Semantic Query Routing in SenPeer, a P2P Data Management System -- Jamjuree Cluster: A Peer-to-Peer Cluster Computing System -- Evaluations on Classified Selection of Dense Vectors for Vegetable Geographical Origin Identification System Using Trace Elements -- Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems -- Integrated Biomedical System for Ubiquitous Health Monitoring -- Tree Graph Views for a Distributed Pervasive Environment -- A Distributed Resource Furnishing to Offload Resource-Constrained Devices in Cyber Foraging Toward Pervasive Computing -- Trust Model for Mobile Devices in Ubiquitous Environment -- Network Applications and Protocols -- PoQBA: A New Path Admission Control for Diffserv Networks -- An Adaptive Call Admission Control Approach for Multimedia 3G Network -- Spatial Correlation Code Based Data Aggregation Scheme for Maximizing Network Lifetime -- A Mesh-Based QoS Aware Multicast Routing Protocol -- Embedded Systems -- Virtual Large-Scale Disk System for PC-Room -- Application of Default Logic in an Intelligent Tutoring System -- Consolidating with Media Streaming Server and Network Storage Card -- Design of the Tile-Based Embedded Multimedia Processor –TEMP– -- Fuzzy Systems and Their Applications -- A Fuzzy-Based Speed-Aware Handoff System for Wireless Cellular Networks -- WPS and Voice-XML-Based Multi-Modal Fusion Agent Using SNNR and Fuzzy Value -- A Fuzzy Neural Network Based Scheduling Algorithm for Job Assignment on Computational Grids.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction with Dexa 2007. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recommender systems, business process / design aspects, mobile commerce, security and e-payment, Web services computing / semantic Web, e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, and issues in Web advertising.