Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2006, held in Bhubaneswar, India in December 2006. This book features the papers addressing and covering the areas distributed computing, internet technology, system security, data mining, and software engineering.

The Role of Programming Languages in Future Data-Centric and Net-Centric Applications.- The Role of Programming Languages in Future Data-Centric and Net-Centric Applications.- Wireless Sensor Network I – Routing and Power Control.- Net-Centric Computing: The Future of Computers and Networking.- Optimisation Problems Based on the Maximal Breach Path Measure for Wireless Sensor Network Coverage.- Energy-Aware Improved Directed Diffusion Algorithm for Area Event Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Network.- Distributed Node-Based Transmission Power Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Wireless Sensor Network II – Localization and Coverage.- Ticket-Based Binding Update Protocol for Mobile IPv6.- Data Rate Adaptive Route Optimization for Sink Mobility Support in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Localization Control to Locate Mobile Sensors.- Static and Dynamic Allocation Algorithms in Mesh Structured Networks.- Mobile AdHoc Networks - Security and Reliability.- A Key Management Scheme with Encoding and Improved Security for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Key Inheritance-Based False Data Filtering Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Anonymous Agreed Order Multicast: Performance and Free Riding.- On Reliability Analysis of Forward Loop Forward Hop Networks.- Quality of Service I.- A Dynamic Paging Scheme for Minimizing Signaling Costs in Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks.- QoS-Aware Routing Based on Local Information for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Kalman Filter Based H.264 Motion Vector Recovery for Error Resilient Video Service over Mobile GRID.- Quality of Service II.- Throughput and Delay Analysis Considering Packet Arrival in IEEE 802.11.- A Routing Optimization Algorithm for BGP Egress Selection.- Enhanced OTIS k-Ary n-Cube Networks.- Multimedia Traffic Distribution UsingCapacitated Multicast Tree.- Grid and Distributed Computing.- Application-Level Checkpointing Techniques for Parallel Programs.- A Generalized Linear Programming Based Approach to Optimal Divisible Load Scheduling.- Improving the Deployability of Existing Windows-Based Client/Server Business Information Systems Using ActiveX.- Web Services and E-Commerce.- An Automatic Approach to Displaying Web Applications as Portlets.- Allocating QOS-Constrained Applications in a Web Service-Oriented Grid.- Multicontext-Aware Recommendation for Ubiquitous Commerce.- An Improved E-Commerce Protocol for Fair Exchange.- Requirements-Driven Modeling of the Web Service Execution and Adaptation Lifecycle.- Modified Raymond’s Algorithm for Priority (MRA-P) Based Mutual Exclusion in Distributed Systems.- Efficient Remote User Authentication and Key Establishment for Multi-server Environment.- Web Databases.- Materialized View Tuning Mechanism and Usability Enhancement.- Research into Verifying Semistructured Data.- An Empirical Study on a Web Server Queueing System and Traffic Generation by Simulation.- Dynamic Primary Copy with Piggy-Backing Mechanism for Replicated UDDI Registry.- Data Mining.- Mining Images of Material Nanostructure Data.- Mining Sequential Support Affinity Patterns with Weight Constraints.- Lossless Data Hiding for High Embedding Capacity.- Spatio-temporal Databases.- Extension of R-Tree for Spatio-temporal OLAP Operations.- Multimedia Data Hiding in Spatial and Transformed Domain.- Indexing and Retrieval of Document Images by Spatial Reasoning.