Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cypr

This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2009 held in Ayia Napa, Cyprus during October 13-14, 2009. The 36 contributions in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing, including: actor-agent systems, agentbased simulation, autonomic computing, computational service economies, defeasible reasoning, distributed data mining, distributed logic programming, e-learning, emergent properties in complex systems, formal methods of intelligent distributed systems, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, information retrieval, knowledge fusion, multi-sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, mobile computing, ontologies and metadata, peer-to-peer networks, process modeling and integration, remote sensing distributed systems, secure e-payment systems, social networks, surveillance and disaster management applications, swarm computing, Web services and systems.

Intelligent Distributed Computing III presents the current research in the field in one comprehensive reference. Topics like actor-agent systems, agent-based simulation, autonomic computing and distributed data mining are among the many areas discussed.

Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques - rived from classical arti?cial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Distributed computing studies systems that contain loosely-coupled components running on networked computers and that c- municateandcoordinatetheiractionsbyexchangeofmessages.Theemergent ?eld of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special ch- lenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC Symposium Series was started as an initiative of research groups from: (i) Systems Research Institute, P- ish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and (ii) Software Engineering Department of the University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania. IDC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners involved in all aspects of - telligent distributed computing. IDC 2009 was the third event in this series and was hosted by Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus in Ayia Napa, Cyprus during October 13-14, 2009.

From the contents: Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications.- Challenges of Data Processing for Earth Observation in Distributed Environments.- A Protocol for Execution of Distributed Logic Programs.- A Framework for Agent-Based Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms.- Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding.- The Assessment of Expertise in Social Networks.- Web Services for Search Integration.- Fusing Approximate Knowledge from Distributed Sources.- Case-study for TeamLog, a Theory of Teamwork.- Hot Topic Detection Based on Opinion Analysis for Web Forums in Distributed Environment.- A Case Study on Availability of Sensor Data in Agent Cooperation.- Interoperability, Standards and Metadata for e-Learning.- Studying the Cache Size in a Gossip-based Evolutionary Algorithm.- A Topic Map for "subject-centric" Learning.- Emergent Properties for Data Distribution in a Cognitive MAS.- Dynamic Process Integration Framework: Toward Efficient Information Processing in Complex Distributed Systems.- WELSA: An Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational System.- Autonomous Execution of Tasks by Swarm Carrier Agents in Swarm-Array Computing.