This book is about Future Information Technology, Application, and Service (FutureTech 2012 volume 2). 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.

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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...

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Hybrid Information Technology.- High Performance Computing.- Cloud and Cluster Computing.- Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications.- Digital Convergence.- 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.- Game and Graphics.- Human-centric Computing and Social Networks.