This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2013, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2013. The papers cover various research aspects in distributed computing, internet technology, computer networks, and machine learning.

Theoretical Distributed Computing Meets Biology: A Review.- Participatory Sensing: Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Smartphones in Urban Spaces.- Energy Efficient Distributed Computing on Mobile Devices.- Data Insertion and Archiving in Erasure-Coding Based Large-Scale Storage Systems.- Medical Software – Issues and Best Practices.- Improved Interference in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Trust Based Secure Gateway Discovery Mechanism for Integrated Internet and MANET.- Improving MapReduce Performance through Complexity and Performance Based Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters.- Online Recommendation of Learning Path for an E-Learner under Virtual University.- A Parallel 2-Approximation NC-Algorithm for Range Assignment Problem in Packet Radio Networks.- An Efficient Localization of Nodes in a Sensor Network Using Conflict Minimization with Controlled Initialization.- Abstract Interpretation of Recursive Queries.- Verification of Message Sequence Structures.- Neural Networks Training Based on Differential Evolution in Radial Basis Function Networks for Classification of Web Logs.- Circle Formation by Asynchronous Transparent Fat Robots.- Controlling Packet Loss of Bursty and Correlated Traffics in a Variant of Multiple Vacation Policy.- Consistent Coordination Decoupling in Tuple Space Based Mobile Middleware: Design and Formal Specifications.- Power Efficient Data Gathering for Sensor Network.- Computing on Encrypted Character Strings in Clouds.- Design of a New OFTM Algorithm towards Abort-Free Execution.- GAR: An Energy Efficient GA-Based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Prediction of Processor Utilization for Real-Time Multimedia Stream Processing Tasks.- An Architecture for Dynamic Web Service Provisioning Using Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Network of Social Listeners.- Computational Social Science: A Bird’s Eye View.- Localization Based on Two-Bound Reflected Signals in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Trading of Grade BasedIncentives to Avoid Free Riding and Starvation in P2P Network.- Supporting Location Information Privacy in Mobile Devices.- Adaptive Task Scheduling in Service Oriented Crowd Using SLURM.- An Efficient Method for Synchronizing Clocks of Networked ECUs in Automotive Systems.- A Local Search Based Approximation Algorithm for Strong Minimum Energy Topology Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks.- MSSA: A M-Level Sufferage-Based Scheduling Algorithm in Grid Environment.- Privacy Preserving Distributed K-Means Clustering in Malicious Model Using Zero Knowledge Proof.- Solving the 4QBF Problem in Polynomial Time by Using the Biological-Inspired Mobility.- Slicing XML Documents Using Dependence Graph.- Effective Web-Service Discovery Using K-Means Clustering.- SPARSHA: A Low Cost Refreshable Braille for Deaf-Blind People for Communication with Deaf-Blind and Non-disabled Persons.- A New Approach to Design a Domain Specific Web Search Crawler Using Multilevel Domain Classifier.- An Efficient and Dynamic Concept Hierarchy Generation for Data Anonymization.- Wikipedia Articles Representation with Matrix’u.- Recovery Protocols for Flash File Systems.- Semantic Concurrency Control on Continuously Evolving OODBMS Using Access Control Lists.- Querying a Service from Repository of SMaps.- Faster Query Execution for Partitioned RDF Data.- A Selection Algorithm for Focused Crawlers Incorporating Semantic Metadata.- Participatory Sensing: Crowdsourcing Data from Mobile Smartphones in Urban Spaces.- Energy Efficient Distributed Computing on Mobile Devices.- Data Insertion and Archiving in Erasure-Coding Based Large-Scale Storage Systems.- Medical Software – Issues and Best Practices.- Improved Interference in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Trust Based Secure Gateway Discovery Mechanism for Integrated Internet and MANET.- Improving MapReduce Performance through Complexity and Performance Based Data Placement in Heterogeneous Hadoop Clusters.- OnlineRecommendation of Learning Path for an E-Learner under Virtual University.- A Parallel 2-Approximation NC-Algorithm for Range Assignment Problem in Packet Radio Networks.- An Efficient Localization of Nodes in a Sensor Network Using Conflict Minimization with Controlled Initialization.- Abstract Interpretation of Recursive Queries.- Verification of Message Sequence Structures.- Neural Networks Training Based on Differential Evolution in Radial Basis Function Networks for Classification of Web Logs.- Circle Formation by Asynchronous Transparent Fat Robots.- Controlling Packet Loss of Bursty and Correlated Traffics in a Variant of Multiple Vacation Policy.- Consistent Coordination Decoupling in Tuple Space Based Mobile Middleware: Design and Formal Specifications.- Power Efficient Data Gathering for Sensor Network.- Computing on Encrypted Character Strings in Clouds.- Design of a New OFTM Algorithm towards Abort-Free Execution.- GAR: An Energy Efficient GA-Based Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Prediction of Processor Utilization for Real-Time Multimedia Stream Processing Tasks.- An Architecture for Dynamic Web Service Provisioning Using Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Network of Social Listeners.- Computational Social Science: A Bird’s Eye View.- Localization Based on Two-Bound Reflected Signals in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Trading of Grade Based Incentives to Avoid Free Riding and Starvation in P2P Network.- Supporting Location Information Privacy in Mobile Devices.- Adaptive Task Scheduling in Service Oriented Crowd Using SLURM.- An Efficient Method for Synchronizing Clocks of Networked ECUs in Automotive Systems.- A Local Search Based Approximation Algorithm for Strong Minimum Energy Topology Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks.- MSSA: A M-Level Sufferage-Based Scheduling Algorithm in Grid Environment.- Privacy Preserving Distributed K-Means Clustering in Malicious Model Using Zero Knowledge Proof.- Solving the 4QBF Problem in PolynomialTime by Using the Biological-Inspired Mobility.- Slicing XML Documents Using Dependence Graph.- Effective Web-Service Discovery Using K-Means Clustering.- SPARSHA: A Low Cost Refreshable Braille for Deaf-Blind People for Communication with Deaf-Blind and Non-disabled Persons.- A New Approach to Design a Domain Specific Web Search Crawler Using Multilevel Domain Classifier.- An Efficient and Dynamic Concept Hierarchy Generation for Data Anonymization.- Wikipedia Articles Representation with Matrix’u.- Recovery Protocols for Flash File Systems.- Semantic Concurrency Control on Continuously Evolving OODBMS Using Access Control Lists.- Querying a Service from Repository of SMaps.- Faster Query Execution for Partitioned RDF Data.- A Selection Algorithm for Focused Crawlers Incorporating Semantic Metadata. 

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2013, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in February 2013. The 40 full papers presented together with 5 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The papers cover various research aspects in distributed computing, internet technology, computer networks, and machine learning.

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