Contents -- preface -- medium access control protocols in passive optical networks based on ethernet (epons) -- anon-routine problem solving mechanism for a comprehensive cognitive agent architecture -- speech acts and prosodic modeling in service-oriented dialog systems -- nctuns tool for ieee 802.16j mobile wimax relay network simulations -- mobile multicast protocols in wireless networks -- on strong user authentication for remote access: combining authentication and 3d secure e-commerce -- new scalable varied density clustering algorithm for large datasets
