Autonomic Management of Object Replication for FT-CORBA Based Intelligent Transportation Systems -- Meshlization of Irregular Grid Resource Topologies by Heuristic Square-Packing Methods -- An Architecture and Supporting Environment of Service-Oriented Computing Based-On Context Awareness -- Relaxed Time Slot Negotiation for Grid Resource Allocation -- A Brokering Protocol for Agent-Based Grid Resource Discovery -- Towards a Better Understanding of Locality-Awareness in Peer-to-Peer Systems -- Default ?-Logic for Modeling Customizable Failure Semantics in Workflow Systems Using Dynamic Reconfiguration Constraints -- A Back Propagation Neural Network for Evaluating Collaborative Performance in Cloud Computing -- SCAIMO – A Case for Enabling Security in Semantic Web Service Composition -- Automatic Synthesis and Deployment of Intensional Kahn Process Networks -- Extended Heartbeat Mechanism for Fault Detection Service Methodology -- Trust-Oriented Multi-objective Workflow Scheduling in Grids -- Empirical Comparison of Race Detection Tools for OpenMP Programs -- Efficient Service Recommendation System for Cloud Computing Market -- Scalable Cooperative Positioning System in Wireless Sensor Networks -- One-to-One Embedding between Hyper Petersen and Petersen-Torus Networks -- A Dynamic Mobile Grid System for 4G Networks -- Authorization Framework for Resource Sharing in Grid Environments -- Design and Implementation of a SOA-Based Medical Grid Platform -- RFID-Based Onion Skin Location Estimation Technique in Indoor Environment -- Harmonized Media Service Middleware Using to Emotional Knowledge -- A Trust Evaluation Model for Cloud Computing -- Multiple Reduced Hypercube MRH(n): A New Interconnection Network Reducing Both Diameter and Edge of Hypercube -- Embedding Algorithm between MRH(n) and Hypercube -- Fuzzy Based Approach for Load Balanced Distributing Database on Sensor Network -- An Ontology-Based Resource Selection Service on Science Cloud.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Grid and Distributed Computing, GDC 2009, held as part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conferences, FGIT 2009, held on Jeju Island, Korea in December 2009. The 26 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.