The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2005, held in Marina del Rey, California, USA in June/July 2005.

The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions; also included are the abstracts of 3 invited talks, 2 short papers, 9 invited poster abstracts, and 10 contributed abstracts.The papers address all current aspects of distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems, including systematic design techniques and tools, algorithms, and applications.

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Invited Talks.- Algorithmic Problems in Ad Hoc Networks.- Five Challenges in Wide-Area Sensor Systems.- Challenges in Programming Sensor Networks.- Regular Papers.- Distributed Proximity Maintenance in Ad Hoc Mobile Networks.- Adaptive Triangular Deployment Algorithm for Unattended Mobile Sensor Networks.- An Adaptive Blind Algorithm for Energy Balanced Data Propagation in Wireless Sensors Networks.- Sensor Localization in an Obstructed Environment.- Stably Computable Properties of Network Graphs.- Routing Explicit Side Information for Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Database-Centric Programming for Wide-Area Sensor Systems.- Using Clustering Information for Sensor Network Localization.- Macro-programming Wireless Sensor Networks Using Kairos.- Sensor Network Calculus A Framework for Worst Case Analysis.- Design and Comparison of Lightweight Group Management Strategies in EnviroSuite.- Design of Adaptive Overlays for Multi-scale Communication in Sensor Networks.- Fault-Tolerant Self-organization in Sensor Networks.- TARA: Thermal-Aware Routing Algorithm for Implanted Sensor Networks.- Multiresolutional Filtering of a Class of Dynamic Multiscale System Subject to Colored State Equation Noise.- Design and Analysis of Wave Sensing Scheduling Protocols for Object-Tracking Applications.- Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks.- Analysis of Gradient-Based Routing Protocols in Sensor Networks.- Analysis of Target Detection Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Collaborative Sensing Using Sensors of Uncoordinated Mobility.- Multi-query Optimization for Sensor Networks.- Distributed Energy-Efficient Hierarchical Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Distributed Greedy Algorithm for Connected SensorCover in Dense Sensor Networks.- Infrastructure-Establishment from Scratch in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Short Papers.- A Local Facility Location Algorithm for Sensor Networks.- jWebDust : A Java-Based Generic Application Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Invited Posters.- Networked Active Sensing of Structures.- Wireless Technologies for Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) in Petroleum Plants.- SensorNet Operational Prototypes: Building Wide-Area Interoperable Sensor Networks Extended Abstract.- Project ExScal.- NetRad: Distributed, Collaborative and Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere Calibration and Initial Benchmarks.- Service-Oriented Computing in Sensor Networks.- Wireless Sensors: Oyster Habitat Monitoring in the Bras d'Or Lakes.- Heavy Industry Applications of Sensornets.- Coordinated Static and Mobile Sensing for Environmental Monitoring.- Contributed Posters.- Ayushman: A Wireless Sensor Network Based Health Monitoring Infrastructure and Testbed.- Studying Upper Bounds on Sensor Network Lifetime by Genetic Clustering.- Sensor Network Coverage Restoration.- A Biologically-Inspired Data-Centric Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks.- RAGOBOT: A New Platform for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks.- Energy Conservation Stratedgy for Sensor Networks.- Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Based on Embedded System and Wireless Network.- An Architecture Model for Supporting Power Saving Services for Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks.- Distributed Recovery Units for Demodulation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- System Integration Using Embedded Web Server and Wireless Communication.