This book is proceedings of the 7th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012). The topics of FutureTech 2012 cover the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs.
The FutureTech 2012 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in all future IT areas, including their models, services, and novel applications associated with their utilization. The FutureTech 2012 will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in this area. In addition, the conference will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories, modeling, and practical applications in many types of future technology. The main scope of FutureTech 2012 is as follows.
Hybrid Information Technology
Cloud and Cluster Computing
Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications
Multimedia Convergence
Intelligent and Pervasive Applications
Security and Trust Computing
IT Management and Service
Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing
Database and Data Mining
Knowledge System and Intelligent Agent
Human-centric Computing and Social Networks
The FutureTech is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of future technologies.
Jong Hyuk Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chairs, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is President of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA) and Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS). He is editor-in-chief of International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC), InderScience and Journal of Convergence (JoC), FTRA Publishing. He is Associate Editor / Editor of 14 international journals including 8 journals indexed by SCI(E). In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Hindawi, Emerald, Inderscience. His research interests include security and digital forensics, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, context awareness, multimedia services, etc. He got the best paper award in ISA-08 conference and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09 and ICA3PP-10. Dr. Park' s research interests include Digital Forensics, Security, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Context Awareness, Multimedia Service, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, KICS, KIISC, KMMS, KDFS and KIIT.
Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the Universityof British Columbia (U.B.C.) in 1977, and was awarded the APEBC Gold Medal as the head of the graduating class in the Faculty of Applied Science. He attended graduate school at U.B.C. on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981. From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), specializing in the planning, design and analysis of satellite communication systems. He also held a part-time position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in 1986 and 1987. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to U.B.C. as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at U.B.C. He also holds Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin University, Beijing Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Dr. Leung has authored/co-authored more than 500 journal/conference papers and book chapters. His research interests are in the areas of architectural and protocol design and performance analysis for computer and telecommunication networks, with a current focus on wireless networks and mobile systems. Dr. Leung is a registered member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC), Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a voting member of ACM. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Societyfrom 2009 to 2012. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computer Communications, the Journal of Communications and Networks, the International Journal of Sensor Networks, the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking and the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. He has guest-edited several special journal issues, and served on the technical program committee of numerous international conferences. He was the General Chair of the International Conference on Wireless Communications (WC 2010), Second International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdhocNets 2010) and 4th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine 2007). He is the General Co-chair of the Mobility Management in the Networks of the Future World (MobiWorld) and Green Communications and Networking (GCN) Workshops of IEEE Infocom 2011, the 6th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (Chinacom 2011), and the 3rd FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-11). He was the General Co-chair of 5th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets 2010), 5th International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing (EMC 2010), IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC2009), and 8th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2005). He was TPC chair of the wireless networks and cognitive radio track of IEEE VTC-fall 2008 and a TPC Vice-chair of IEEE WCNC 2005.
Dr. Cho‐Li Wang received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1985. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering fromUniversity of Southern California in 1990 and 1995 respectively. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wang's research interests include parallel architecture, software systems for Cluster and Grid computing, and virtualization techniques for Cloud computing. Dr. Wang has published more than 130 papers in various peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals, including, IEEE TC, JISE, JPCC, MGS, ICST TNC, ICST SIS, IJIEI, and FTRA HCIS. He is the program chair for Cluster’03, CCGrid'09, InfoScale’09, and ICPADS’09, ISPA’11, FCST’11, and FutureTech’12; and the General Chair for IPDPS2012. He is also the regional coordinator (Hong Kong) of IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Dr. Wang is the primary investigator of China 863 project "Hong Kong University Grid Point''. The HKU Grid point consists of 3004 CPU cores (31.45 TeraFlops), which offers parallel computing services for the China National Grid (CNGrid) and is used as a testbed for Cloud‐related systems development.
Taeshik Shon received his Ph.D. degree in Information Security from Korea University, Seoul, Korea and his M.S. and B.S. degree in computer engineering from Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. While he was working toward his Ph.D. degree, he was awarded a KOSEF scholarship to be a research scholar in the Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, from February 2004 to February 2005. From Aug. 2005 to Feb. 2011, Dr. Shon had been a senior engineer in the Convergence S/W Lab, DMC R&D Center of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. He is currently a professor at the Division of Information and Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea. He was awarded the Gold Prize for the Sixth Information Security Best Paper Award from the Korea InformationSecurity Agency in 2003, the Honorable Prize for the 24th Student Best Paper Award from Microsoft-KISS, 2005, the Bronze Prize for the Samsung Best Paper Award, 2006, and the Second Level of TRIZ Specialist certification in compliance with the International TRIZ Association requirements, 2008. He is also serving as a guest editor, an editorial staff and review committee of Computers and Electrical Engineering - Elsevier, Mobile Network & Applications – Springer, Security and Communication Networks - Wiley InterScience, Wireless Personal Communications – Springer, Journal of The Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, and other journals. His research interests include Convergence Platform Security, Mobile Cloud Computing Security, Mobile/Wireless Network Security, WPAN/WSN Security, anomaly detection algorithms, and machine learning applications.
