Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009

✍ Scribed by Nicholas R. Jennings, Alex Rogers (auth.), George Angelos Papadopoulos, Costin Badica (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 237
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications....Pages 1-7
Challenges of Data Processing for Earth Observation in Distributed Environments....Pages 9-19
A Protocol for Execution of Distributed Logic Programs....Pages 21-30
A Framework for Agent-Based Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms....Pages 31-41
Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding....Pages 43-52
The Assessment of Expertise in Social Networks....Pages 53-62
Web Services for Search Integration....Pages 63-73
Fusing Approximate Knowledge from Distributed Sources....Pages 75-86
Case-Study for TeamLog, a Theory of Teamwork....Pages 87-100
Hot Topic Detection Based on Opinion Analysis for Web Forums in Distributed Environment....Pages 101-110
A Case Study on Availability of Sensor Data in Agent Cooperation....Pages 111-120
Interoperability, Standards and Metadata for E-Learning....Pages 121-130
Studying the Cache Size in a Gossip-Based Evolutionary Algorithm....Pages 131-140
A Topic Map for “Subject-Centric” Learning....Pages 141-150
Emergent Properties for Data Distribution in a Cognitive MAS....Pages 151-159
Dynamic Process Integration Framework: Toward Efficient Information Processing in Complex Distributed Systems....Pages 161-174
WELSA: An Intelligent and Adaptive Web-Based Educational System....Pages 175-185
Autonomous Execution of Tasks by Swarm Carrier Agents in Swarm-Array Computing....Pages 187-196
A Privacy Preserving E-Payment Scheme....Pages 197-202
Monitoring a BitTorrent Tracker for Peer-to-Peer System Analysis....Pages 203-208
A Memory Assistant for the Elderly....Pages 209-214
Automatic Ontology Extraction with Text Clustering....Pages 215-220
Distributed Information Sharing in Mobile Environments....Pages 221-226
Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings....Pages 227-236
Actor-Agent Communities: Design Approaches....Pages 237-242
A Trusted Defeasible Reasoning Service for Brokering Agents in the Semantic Web....Pages 243-248
Self-Built Grid....Pages 249-255
Obtaining Knowledge Using Educational Data Mining....Pages 257-262
TN4PM: A Textual Notation for Process Modelling....Pages 263-268
Group-Based Interactions for Multiuser Applications....Pages 269-275
Blueprint: A Continuation-Based Web Framework....Pages 277-282
Towards Reliable Trust Management in Insecure P2P Environments....Pages 283-288
Middleware Support in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance Applications....Pages 289-296
SimRad.NBC – Simulation and Information System for Rescue Units at CBRN Disasters....Pages 297-303
Distributed Goal-Oriented Reasoning Engine for Multi-agent Systems: Initial Implementation....Pages 305-311
Global Military Conflict Simulator....Pages 313-318
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Applications of Mathematics