Intelligent Distributed Computing III [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009 / edited by George Angelos Papadopoulos, Costin Badica.

Invited Papers -- Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications -- Challenges of Data Processing for Earth Observation in Distributed Environments -- Regular Papers -- 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 ǣSubject-Centricǥ 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 -- Short Papers -- A Privacy Preserving E-Payment Scheme -- Monitoring a BitTorrent Tracker for Peer-to-Peer System Analysis -- A Memory Assistant for the Elderly -- Automatic Ontology Extraction with Text Clustering -- Distributed Information Sharing in Mobile Environments -- Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings -- Actor-Agent Communities: Design Approaches -- A Trusted Defeasible Reasoning Service for Brokering Agents in the Semantic Web -- Self-Built Grid -- Obtaining Knowledge Using Educational Data Mining -- TN4PM: A Textual Notation for Process Modelling -- Group-Based Interactions for Multiuser Applications -- Blueprint: A Continuation-Based Web Framework -- Towards Reliable Trust Management in Insecure P2P Environments -- Middleware Support in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance Applications -- SimRad.NBC Simulation and Information System for Rescue Units at CBRN Disasters -- Distributed Goal-Oriented Reasoning Engine for Multi-agent Systems: Initial Implementation -- Global Military Conflict Simulator.

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.

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