Advances in Intelligent and Distributed Computing [electronic resource] / edited by Costin Badica, Marcin Paprzycki.

Invited Papers -- The world of autonomous distributed systems -- Time and Space Coordination of Mobile Agents -- The Difficulty of Search and an Interesting Solution -- Distributed Decision Making for Robot Teams -- Fully Coupled and Feedforward Neural Networks with Complex-Valued Neurons -- Regular Papers -- Cluster-Based Route Discovery Protocol -- Object-Oriented High Level Petri Nets as a Formal Language for Modelling and Design Multi-Agent Systems -- Considerations on the Design and Implementation of an Agent-Based Auction Service -- Automatic Streaming Processing of XSLT Transformations Based on Tree Transducers -- Knowledge Processing for Web Search — An Integrated Model -- Applying Social Behaviours to Model Trusting -- Using Ant’s Alarm Pheromone to Improve Software Testing Automation * -- Aspects Concerning SVM Method’s Scalability -- On Interchange between JBoss Rules and Jess -- A Cross-Entropy Approach to Solving Dec-POMDPs -- Polyphony, a Knowledge-based Chat System Supporting Collaborative Work -- Decomposition and Processing Strategies of Global XQuery Queries over Distributed Environments -- Description and Organization of Instructional Resources in an Adaptive Educational System Focused on Learning Styles -- JTangPS: Content-Based Publish/Subscribe over Structured P2P Networks -- Using the color set back-projection algorithm in retrieval and evaluation of endoscopic images -- Granularity of Medical Software Agents in ICU -Trade-off Performance versus Flexibility -- APP: Agent Planning Package -- Converting Programs into Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Regular Papers -- Models for Temporal and Spatial Terrain Coverage -- Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimise Rough Set Partition Sizes for HIV Data Analysis -- Semantic Web and Rule Reasoning inside of E-Learning Systems -- Web-based Remote Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Laboratory Using the Integrated Learning Methodology (ILM) -- Reasoning on Activity-centered Semantics in Request-Service Matchmaking -- Marked-Controlled Rewriting EFPN for Dynamic Knowledge Inference -- Off-Line Signature Verification using Feature Based Image Registration -- Collaboration of Intelligent, Autonomous Systems: Situation Aware Behavior Change -- On the Distributed Water Pollution Control Solving with an Agent-Based Approach -- Learn Reversi using Parallel Genetic Algorithms -- Graph-based semantic description and information extraction in analysis of 3D coronary vessels visualizations.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing – IDC’2007, held in Craiova, Romania, October 2007. IDC 2007 was the first International Symposium bringing together researchers involved in intelligent and distributed computing to allow cross-fertilization and search for synergies of ideas and to enable advancement of research in these exciting sub-fields of computer science. The 34 contributions in this book cover a broad area of topics related to intelligent and distributed computing, systems and applications, including: autonomous and adaptive computing; constraint satisfaction; cooperation and coordination; data mining and knowledge discovery; distributed problem solving and decision making; e-business, e-health and e-learning; genetic algorithms; image processing; information retrieval; or intelligence in mobile and ubiquitous computing.