Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications -

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Résumé :
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.

Sommaire:
Invited Papers.- Intelligent Gossip.- Infrastructure for Ontological Resource Matching in a Virtual Organization.- Architecture and Metaphors for Eternally Adaptive Service Ecosystems.- Regular Papers.- An Agent Based Approach to the Selection Dilemma in CBR.- Modeling Interactions in Agent-Based English Auctions with Matchmaking Capabilities.- Output-Driven XQuery Evaluation.- Approximating All-to-All Broadcast in Wireless Networks.- Trusting Evaluation by Social Reputation.- Linguistic Extraction for Semantic Annotation.- Xord: An Implementation Framework for Efficient XSLT Processing.- A Simple Trust model for On-Demand Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- A Platform for Collaborative Management of Semantic Grid Metadata.- Distributed Approach for Genetic Test Generation in the Field of Digital Electronics.- A Planning-Based Approach for Enacting World Wide Argument Web.- A Distributed Immune Algorithm for Solving Optimization Problems.- Evaluation of Selective Distributed Discovery within Distributed Bio-active Agent Community.- VPOET: Using a Distributed Collaborative Platform for Semantic Web Applications.- Are Many Heads Better Than One?On Combining Information from Multiple Internet Sources.- Formal Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Multi-Agent Systems: The REMM Framework.- Email Archiving and Discovery as a Service.- Similarity of DTDs Based on Edit Distance and Semantics.- Timer-Based Composition of Fault-Containing Self-stabilizing Protocols.- Calibrating an Embedded Protocol on an Asynchronous System.- Short Papers.- On Establishing and Fixing a Parallel Session Attack in a Security Protocol.- Constructing Security Protocol Specifications for Web Services.- On the Foundations of Web-Based Registries for Business Rules.- Large-Scale Data Dictionaries Based on Hash Tables.- Undo in Context-Aware Collaborative Ubiquitous-Computing Environments.- Understanding Distributed Program Behavior Using a Multicast Communication Scheme.- Multi-agent Conflict Resolution with Trust for Ontology Mapping.- Algorithmic Trading on an Artificial Stock Market.- Towards a Visual Definition of a Process in a Distributed Environment.- A Multi-agent Recommender System for Supporting Device Adaptivity in E-Commerce.- Dynamically Computing Reputation of Recommender Agents with Learning Capabilities.- Topic Map for Medical E-Learning.