Part of a four-volume set, this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2007, held in Beijing, China in May 2007. The papers cover a large volume of topics in computational science and related areas, from multiscale physics to wireless networks, and from graph theory to tools for program development.

A Composite Finite Element-Finite Difference Model Applied to Turbulence Modelling.- Vortex Identification in the Wall Region of Turbulent Channel Flow.- Numerical Solution of a Two-Class LWR Traffic Flow Model by High-Resolution Central-Upwind Scheme.- User-Controllable GPGPU-Based Target-Driven Smoke Simulation.- Variable Relaxation Solve for Nonlinear Thermal Conduction.- A Moving Boundary Wave Run-Up Model.- Enabling Very-Large Scale Earthquake Simulations on Parallel Machines.- Fast Insolation Computation in Large Territories.- Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, Thermomechanics, Geodynamics.- A Finite Element Model for Epidermal Wound Healing.- Predicting Binding Sites of Hepatitis C Virus Complexes Using Residue Binding Propensity and Sequence Entropy.- Use of Parallel Simulated Annealing for Computational Modeling of Human Head Conductivity.- Mining Molecular Structure Data for the Patterns of Interactions Between Protein and RNA.- Detecting Periodically Expression in Unevenly Spaced Microarray Time Series.- Creating Individual Based Models of the Plankton Ecosystem.- A Hybrid Agent-Based Model of Chemotaxis.- Block-Based Approach to Solving Linear Systems.- Numerical Tests with Gauss-Type Nested Implicit Runge-Kutta Formulas.- An Efficient Implementation of the Thomas-Algorithm for Block Penta-diagonal Systems on Vector Computers.- Compatibility of Scalapack with the Discrete Wavelet Transform.- A Model for Representing Topological Relations Between Simple Concave Regions.- Speech Emotion Recognition Based on a Fusion of All-Class and Pairwise-Class Feature Selection.- Regularized Knowledge-Based Kernel Machine.- Three-Phase Inverse Design Stefan Problem.- Semi-supervised Clustering Using Incomplete Prior Knowledge.- Distributed Reasoning with Fuzzy Description Logics.- Effective Pattern Similarity Match for Multidimensional Sequence Data Sets.- GPU-Accelerated Montgomery Exponentiation.- Hierarchical-Matrix Preconditioners for Parabolic Optimal Control Problems.- Searching and Updating Metric Space Databases Using the Parallel EGNAT.- An Efficient Algorithm and Its Parallelization for Computing PageRank.- A Query Index for Stream Data Using Interval Skip Lists Exploiting Locality.- Accelerating XML Structural Matching Using Suffix Bitmaps.- Improving XML Querying with Maximal Frequent Query Patterns.- A Logic-Based Approach to Mining Inductive Databases.- An Efficient Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization for Multiprocessor Scheduling.- Toward Optimizing Particle-Simulation Systems.- A Modified Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization.- Neural Networks for Predicting the Behavior of Preconditioned Iterative Solvers.- On the Normal Boundary Intersection Method for Generation of Efficient Front.- An Improved Laplacian Smoothing Approach for Surface Meshes.- Red-Black Half-Sweep Iterative Method Using Triangle Finite Element Approximation for 2D Poisson Equations.- Optimizing Surface Triangulation Via Near Isometry with Reference Meshes.- Efficient Adaptive Strategy for Solving Inverse Problems.- Topology Preserving Tetrahedral Decomposition of Trilinear Cell.- FITTING: A Portal to Fit Potential Energy Functionals to ab initio Points.- Impact of QoS on Replica Placement in Tree Networks.- Generating Traffic Time Series Based on Generalized Cauchy Process.- Reliable and Scalable State Management Using Migration of State Information in Web Services.- Efficient and Reliable Execution of Legacy Codes Exposed as Services.- Provenance Provisioning in Mobile Agent-Based Distributed Job Workflow Execution.- EPLAS: An Epistemic Programming Language for All Scientists.- Translation of Common Information Model to Web Ontology Language.- XML Based Semantic Data Grid Service.- Communication-Aware Scheduling Algorithm Based on Heterogeneous Computing Systems.- Macro Adjustment Based Task Scheduling in Hierarchical Grid Market.- DGSS: A Dependability Guided Job Scheduling System for Grid Environment.- An Exact Algorithm for the Servers Allocation, Capacity and Flow Assignment Problem with Cost Criterion and Delay Constraint in Wide Area Networks.- Adaptive Divisible Load Model for Scheduling Data-Intensive Grid Applications.- Providing Fault-Tolerance in Unreliable Grid Systems Through Adaptive Checkpointing and Replication.- A Machine-Learning Based Load Prediction Approach for Distributed Service-Oriented Applications.- A Balanced Resource Allocation and Overload Control Infrastructure for the Service Grid Environment.- Recognition and Optimization of Loop-Carried Stream Reusing of Scientific Computing Applications on the Stream Processor.- A Scalable Parallel Software Volume Rendering Algorithm for Large-Scale Unstructured Data.- Geometry-Driven Nonlinear Equation with an Accelerating Coupled Scheme for Image Enhancement.- A Graph Clustering Algorithm Based on Minimum and Normalized Cut.- A-PARM: Adaptive Division of Sub-cells in the PARM for Efficient Volume Ray Casting.- Inaccuracies of Shape Averaging Method Using Dynamic Time Warping for Time Series Data.- An Algebraic Substructuring Method for High-Frequency Response Analysis of Micro-systems.- Multilevel Task Partition Algorithm for Parallel Simulation of Power System Dynamics.- An Extended Implementation of the Great Deluge Algorithm for Course Timetabling.- Cubage-Weight Balance Algorithm for the Scattered Goods Loading with Two Aims.- Modeling VaR in Crude Oil Market: A Multi Scale Nonlinear Ensemble Approach Incorporating Wavelet Analysis and ANN.- On the Assessment of Petroleum Corporation’s Sustainability Based on Linguistic Fuzzy Method.- A Multiagent Model for Supporting Tourism Policy-Making by Market Simulations.- An Improved Chaos-Based Image Encryption Scheme.- A Factory Pattern in Fortran 95.- Mapping Pipeline Skeletons onto Heterogeneous Platforms.- On the Optimal Object-Oriented Program Re-modularization.- A Buffered-Mode MPI Implementation for the Cell BETM Processor.- Implementation of the Parallel Superposition inBulk-Synchronous Parallel ML.- Parallelization of Generic Libraries Based on Type Properties.- Traffic Routing Through Off-Line LSP Creation.- Simulating Trust Overlay in P2P Networks.- Detecting Shrew HTTP Flood Attacks for Flash Crowds.- A New Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for m-ary n-cube Multi-computers and Its Performance Analysis.- CARP: Context-Aware Resource Provisioning for Multimedia over 4G Wireless Networks.- Improved Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 over IEEE 802.16e Network.- Advanced Bounded Shortest Multicast Algorithm for Delay Constrained Minimum Cost.- Efficient Deadlock Detection in Parallel Computer Systems with Wormhole Routing.- Type-Based Query Expansion for Sentence Retrieval.- An Extended R-Tree Indexing Method Using Selective Prefetching in Main Memory.- Single Data Copying for MPI Communication Optimization on Shared Memory System.- Adaptive Sparse Grid Classification Using Grid Environments.- Latency-Optimized Parallelization of the FMM Near-Field Computations.- Efficient Generation of Parallel Quasirandom Faure Sequences Via Scrambling.- Complexity of Monte Carlo Algorithms for a Class of Integral Equations.- Modeling of Carrier Transport in Nanowires.- Monte Carlo Numerical Treatment of Large Linear Algebra Problems.- Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems: Introduction to the ICCS’2007 Workshop.- Simulating Weed Propagation Via Hierarchical, Patch-Based Cellular Automata.- A Multiscale, Cell-Based Framework for Modeling Cancer Development.- Stochastic Modelling and Simulation of Coupled Autoregulated Oscillators in a Multicellular Environment: The her1/her7 Genes.- Multiscale Modeling of Biopolymer Translocation Through a Nanopore.- Multi-physics and Multi-scale Modelling in Cardiovascular Physiology: Advanced User Methods for Simulation of Biological Systems with ANSYS/CFX.- Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Mixed Convection in a Driven Cavity Packed with Porous Medium.- Numerical Study of Cross Diffusion Effects on Double Diffusive Convection with Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Some Nonlinear Complex Equations.- A General Long-Time Molecular Dynamics Scheme in Atomistic Systems: Hyperdynamics in Entropy Dominated Systems.- A New Constitutive Model for the Analysis of Semi-flexible Polymers with Internal Viscosity.- Coupled Navier-Stokes/DSMC Method for Transient and Steady-State Gas Flows.- Multi-scale Simulations of Gas Flows with Unified Flow Solver.- Coupling Atomistic and Continuum Models for Multi-scale Simulations of Gas Flows.- Modelling Macroscopic Phenomena with Cellular Automata and Parallel Genetic Algorithms: An Application to Lava Flows.- Acceleration of Preconditioned Krylov Solvers for Bubbly Flow Problems.- An Efficient Characteristic Method for the Magnetic Induction Equation with Various Resistivity Scales.- Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Modeling Flow and Transport in Porous Media.- Fourier Spectral Solver for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Volume-Penalization.- High Quality Surface Mesh Generation for Multi-physics Bio-medical Simulations.- Macro-micro Interlocked Simulation for Multiscale Phenomena.- Towards a Complex Automata Framework for Multi-scale Modeling: Formalism and the Scale Separation Map.- Multilingual Interfaces for Parallel Coupling in Multiphysics and Multiscale Systems.- On a New Isothermal Quantum Euler Model: Derivation, Asymptotic Analysis and Simulation.- Grate Furnace Combustion: A Submodel for the Solid Fuel Layer.- to the ICCS 2007 Workshop on Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems.- Pharmaceutical Informatics and the Pathway to Personalized Medicines.- Towards Real-Time Distributed Signal Modeling for Brain-Machine Interfaces.- Using Cyber-Infrastructure for Dynamic Data Driven Laser Treatment of Cancer.- Grid-Enabled Software Environment for Enhanced Dynamic Data-Driven Visualization and Navigation During Image-Guided Neurosurgery.- From Data Reverence to Data Relevance: Model-Mediated Wireless Sensing of the Physical Environment.- AMBROSia: An Autonomous Model-Based Reactive Observing System.- Dynamically Identifying and Tracking Contaminants in Water Bodies.- Hessian-Based Model Reduction for Large-Scale Data Assimilation Problems.- Localized Ensemble Kalman Dynamic Data Assimilation for Atmospheric Chemistry.- Data Assimilation in Multiscale Chemical Transport Models.- Building a Dynamic Data Driven Application System for Hurricane Forecasting.- A Dynamic Data Driven Wildland Fire Model.- Ad Hoc Distributed Simulation of Surface Transportation Systems.- Cyberinfrastructure for Contamination Source Characterization in Water Distribution Systems.- Integrated Decision Algorithms for Auto-steered Electric Transmission System Asset Management.- DDDAS for Autonomic Interconnected Systems: The National Energy Infrastructure.- Implementing Virtual Buffer for Electric Power Grids.- Enhanced Situational Awareness: Application of DDDAS Concepts to Emergency and Disaster Management.- AIMSS: An Architecture for Data Driven Simulations in the Social Sciences.- Bio-terror Preparedness Exercise in a Mixed Reality Environment.- Dynamic Tracking of Facial Expressions Using Adaptive, Overlapping Subspaces.- Realization of Dynamically Adaptive Weather Analysis and Forecasting in LEAD: Four Years Down the Road.- Active Learning with Support Vector Machines for Tornado Prediction.- Adaptive Observation Strategies for Forecast Error Minimization.- Two Extensions of Data Assimilation by Field Alignment.- A Realtime Observatory for Laboratory Simulation of Planetary Circulation.- Planet-in-a-Bottle: A Numerical Fluid-Laboratory System.- Compressed Sensing and Time-Parallel Reduced-Order Modeling for Structural Health Monitoring Using a DDDAS.- Multi-level Coupling of Dynamic Data-Driven Experimentation with Material Identification.- Evaluation of Fluid-Thermal Systems by Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - Part II.- Dynamic Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Systems.- Building Verifiable Sensing Applications Through Temporal Logic Specification.- Dynamic Data-Driven Systems Approach for Simulation Based Optimizations.- DDDAS/ITR: A Data Mining and Exploration Middleware for Grid and Distributed Computing.- A Combined Hardware/Software Optimization Framework for Signal Representation and Recognition.- Validating Evolving Simulations in COERCE.- Equivalent Semantic Translation from Parallel DEVS Models to Time Automata.