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.

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.