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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Badica, Costin (Editor), Mangioni, Giuseppe (Editor), Carchiolo, Vincenza (Editor), Burdescu, Dumitru Dan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 162
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
• Physical Description: XIV, 312 p. 92 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540852575
• ISSN: 1860-949X ;

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.