E-Business and Telecommunication Networks [electronic resource] : Third International Conference, ICETE 2006, SetȦbal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006. Selected Papers / edited by Joaquim Filipe, Mohammad S. Obaidat.

ICE-B -- Towards Automated Service Trading -- SAGA: An Adaptive Infrastructure for Secure Available GRID on Ad-Hoc Networks -- Variable Quantity Market Clearing Algorithms -- Modeling the Dynamics of Social Networks -- Reputation Management Service for Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Architectures -- A New Approach for the Trust Calculation in Social Networks -- SECRYPT -- Spoofed ARP Packets Detection in Switched LAN Networks -- Efficient All-or-Nothing Encryption Using CTR Mode -- Proposals for Iterated Hash Functions -- Secure Online English Auctions -- Using Microsoft Office InfoPath to Generate XACML Policies -- Least Privilege in Separation Kernels -- Inter-node Relationship Labeling: A Fine-Grained XML Access Control Implementation Using Generic Security Labels -- SIGMAP -- Using Placeholder Slices and MPEG-21 BSDL for ROI Extraction in H.264/AVC FMO-Encoded Bitstreams -- Design and Implementation of Video on Demand Services over a Peer-to-Peer Multioverlay Network -- Traffic Trunk Parameters for Voice Transport over MPLS -- On-the-Fly Time Scaling for Compressed Audio Streams -- Improving Multiscale Recurrent Pattern Image Coding with Deblocking Filtering -- A Network Scheduler for an Adaptive VoD Server -- Enhanced Interaction for Streaming Media -- An E-Librarian Service That Yields Pertinent Resources from a Multimedia Knowledge Base -- WINSYS -- A Transceiver Concept Based on a Software Defined Radio Approach -- Evaluation of an Orthogonal SFBC Channel Estimation Scheme for MIMO OFDM Wireless Systems -- A New Signal Detection Method for TR-UWB: By Time Delayed Sampling and Correlation (TDSC) -- Image Transmission with Adaptive Power and Rate Allocation over Flat Fading Channels Using Joint Source Channel Coding -- Directional Spectrum Modelling in Inhomogeneous Forests at 20 and 62.4 GHz -- Use of AGPS Call Data Records for Non-GPS Terminal Positioning in Cellular Networks -- A Telephony Application for Manets: Voice over a MANET-Extended JXTA Virtual Overlay Network -- A Context-Aware Architecture for Mobile Knowledge Management.

This book constitutes the best papers of the Third International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, ICETE 2006, held in SetȦbal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 326 submissions. The papers are organized in four parts according to their conferences: ICE-B, SECRYPT, SIGMAP and WINSYS.

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