Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2008, Catania, Italy, 2008

✍ Scribed by Alberto Montresor (auth.), Costin Badica, Giuseppe Mangioni, Vincenza Carchiolo, Dumitru Dan Burdescu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 162
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2008 held in Catania, Italy during September 18-19, 2008.

The 35 contributions in this book address many topics related to intelligent and distributed computing, systems and applications, including: adaptivity and learning; agents and multi-agent systems; argumentation; auctions; case-based reasoning; collaborative systems; data structures; distributed algorithms; formal modeling and verification; genetic and immune algorithms; grid computing; information extraction, annotation and integration; network and security protocols; mobile and ubiquitous computing; ontologies and metadata; P2P computing; planning; recommender systems; rules; semantic Web; services and processes; trust and social computing; virtual organizations; wireless networks; XML technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Intelligent Gossip....Pages 3-10
Infrastructure for Ontological Resource Matching in a Virtual Organization....Pages 11-21
Architecture and Metaphors for Eternally Adaptive Service Ecosystems....Pages 23-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
An Agent Based Approach to the Selection Dilemma in CBR....Pages 35-44
Modeling Interactions in Agent-Based English Auctions with Matchmaking Capabilities....Pages 45-54
Output-Driven XQuery Evaluation....Pages 55-64
Approximating All-to-All Broadcast in Wireless Networks....Pages 65-74
Trusting Evaluation by Social Reputation....Pages 75-84
Linguistic Extraction for Semantic Annotation....Pages 85-94
Xord: An Implementation Framework for Efficient XSLT Processing....Pages 95-104
A Simple Trust model for On-Demand Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 105-114
A Platform for Collaborative Management of Semantic Grid Metadata....Pages 115-125
Distributed Approach for Genetic Test Generation in the Field of Digital Electronics....Pages 127-136
A Planning-Based Approach for Enacting World Wide Argument Web....Pages 137-146
A Distributed Immune Algorithm for Solving Optimization Problems....Pages 147-155
Evaluation of Selective Distributed Discovery within Distributed Bio-active Agent Community....Pages 157-166
VPOET: Using a Distributed Collaborative Platform for Semantic Web Applications....Pages 167-176
Are Many Heads Better Than One—On Combining Information from Multiple Internet Sources....Pages 177-186
Formal Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems: The REMM Framework....Pages 187-196
Email Archiving and Discovery as a Service....Pages 197-206
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Similarity of DTDs Based on Edit Distance and Semantics....Pages 207-216
Timer-Based Composition of Fault-Containing Self-stabilizing Protocols....Pages 217-226
Calibrating an Embedded Protocol on an Asynchronous System....Pages 227-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
On Establishing and Fixing a Parallel Session Attack in a Security Protocol....Pages 239-244
Constructing Security Protocol Specifications for Web Services....Pages 245-250
On the Foundations of Web-Based Registries for Business Rules....Pages 251-255
Large-Scale Data Dictionaries Based on Hash Tables....Pages 257-262
Undo in Context-Aware Collaborative Ubiquitous-Computing Environments....Pages 263-268
Understanding Distributed Program Behavior Using a Multicast Communication Scheme....Pages 269-274
Multi-agent Conflict Resolution with Trust for Ontology Mapping....Pages 275-280
Algorithmic Trading on an Artificial Stock Market....Pages 281-286
Towards a Visual Definition of a Process in a Distributed Environment....Pages 287-292
A Multi-agent Recommender System for Supporting Device Adaptivity in E-Commerce....Pages 293-298
Dynamically Computing Reputation of Recommender Agents with Learning Capabilities....Pages 299-304
Topic Map for Medical E-Learning....Pages 305-310
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

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