Intelligent Distributed Computing III Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, October 2009

Intelligent computing covers a hybrid palette of methods and techniques - rived from classical arti?cial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems a.o. Distributed computing studies systems that contain loosely-coupled components running on networked computers and that c- municateandcoordinatetheiractionsbyexchangeofmessages.Theemergent ?eld of intelligent distributed computing is expected to pose special ch- lenges of adaptation and fruitful combination of results of both areas with a great impact on the development of new generation intelligent distributed information systems. Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC Symposium Series was started as an initiative of research groups from: (i) Systems Research Institute, P- ish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and (ii) Software Engineering Department of the University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania. IDC aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners involved in all aspects of - telligent distributed computing. IDC 2009 was the third event in this series and was hosted by Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus in Ayia Napa, Cyprus during October 13-14, 2009.

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 “Subject-Centric” 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.