Distributed processing has been motivated by many objectives. Among these are a desire to share resources, reduce communications costs (as compared to a centralized processing scheme), increase performance and decrease response time by partitioning tasks and achieve higher system availability...

This document is a collection of 157 abstracts received during the National Seminar on "Integrated Rural Development and Management: Issues, Strategies and Policy Options" held at the IRDM Faculty Centre of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University during 17-18 December, 2010

Mr. Jack Pendray is Executive in Residence and Visiting Professor of Management at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. From 1993-96, Jack was President of the International Group of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc., Cincinnati OH, where he was responsible for all non-North...