Preface

Funding

We owe thanks to all workshop organizers and members of the Program Committee for their diligent work, which led to the very high quality of the event. We would like to express our gratitude to Emory University and Emory College in general, and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in particular, for their wholehearted support of ICCS 2005. We are indebted to all the members of the Local Organizing Committee for their enthusiastic work towards the success of ICCS 2005, and to numerous colleagues from various Emory University units for their help in different aspects of organization. We very much appreciate the help of Emory University students during the conference. We owe special thanks to our corporate sponsors: Intel, IBM, Microsoft Research, SGI, and Springer; and to ICIS, Math & Computer Science, Emory College, the Provost’s Office, and the Graduate School at Emory University for their generous support. ICCS 2005 was organized by the Distributed Computing Laboratory at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Emory University, with support from the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and the Computational Science Section at the University of Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe-