Advances in Intelligent and Distributed Computing : Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing IDC 2007, Craiova, Romania, October 2007

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The world of autonomous distributed systems....Pages 3-7 Time and Space Coordination of Mobile Agents....Pages 9-23 The Difficulty of Search and an Interesting Solution....Pages 25-34 Distributed Decision Making for Robot Teams....Pages 35-40 Fully Coupled and Feedforward Neural Networks with Complex-Valued Neurons....Pages 41-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Cluster-Based Route Discovery Protocol....Pages 53-62 Object-Oriented High Level Petri Nets as a Formal Language for Modelling and Design Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 63-74 Considerations on the Design and Implementation of an Agent-Based Auction Service....Pages 75-83 Automatic Streaming Processing of XSLT Transformations Based on Tree Transducers....Pages 86-94 Knowledge Processing for Web Search — An Integrated Model....Pages 96-104 Applying Social Behaviours to Model Trusting....Pages 105-114 Using Ant’s Alarm Pheromone to Improve Software Testing Automation *....Pages 115-124 Aspects Concerning SVM Method’s Scalability....Pages 125-134 On Interchange between JBoss Rules and Jess....Pages 135-144 A Cross-Entropy Approach to Solving Dec-POMDPs....Pages 145-154 Polyphony, a Knowledge-based Chat System Supporting Collaborative Work....Pages 155-164 Decomposition and Processing Strategies of Global XQuery Queries over Distributed Environments....Pages 165-175 Description and Organization of Instructional Resources in an Adaptive Educational System Focused on Learning Styles....Pages 177-186 JTangPS: Content-Based Publish/Subscribe over Structured P2P Networks....Pages 187-196 Using the color set back-projection algorithm in retrieval and evaluation of endoscopic images....Pages 197-206 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Granularity of Medical Software Agents in ICU -Trade-off Performance versus Flexibility....Pages 207-216 APP: Agent Planning Package....Pages 217-226 Converting Programs into Constraint Satisfaction Problems....Pages 228-236 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 Models for Temporal and Spatial Terrain Coverage....Pages 239-244 Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimise Rough Set Partition Sizes for HIV Data Analysis....Pages 245-250 Semantic Web and Rule Reasoning inside of E-Learning Systems....Pages 251-256 Web-based Remote Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Laboratory Using the Integrated Learning Methodology (ILM)....Pages 257-262 Reasoning on Activity-centered Semantics in Request-Service Matchmaking....Pages 263-268 Marked-Controlled Rewriting EFPN for Dynamic Knowledge Inference....Pages 269-276 Off-Line Signature Verification using Feature Based Image Registration....Pages 277-282 Collaboration of Intelligent, Autonomous Systems: Situation Aware Behavior Change....Pages 283-288 On the Distributed Water Pollution Control Solving with an Agent-Based Approach....Pages 289-294 Learn Reversi using Parallel Genetic Algorithms....Pages 295-301 Graph-based semantic description and information extraction in analysis of 3D coronary vessels visualizations....Pages 303-309 Intelligent computing is becoming a mature?eld of information and communication technology, covering a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from clas- cal arti?cial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems etc. Int- ligent computing is generally known to be computationally intensive from the point of view of resources required: time, memory, bandwidth. As such high resource c- sumption is one of its main drawbacks, distributed computing is expected to give an impetus to its practical utilization. Moreover, intelligent techniques have also proved their usefulness to the core distributed computing technologies like planning and scheduling, load balancing, replication, resource allocation and management, and its applications. Therefore, the emerging?eld of intelligent distributed computing can be expected both, to bring a fruitful cooperation and to pose new challenges of adaptation of both areas. Intelligent and Distributed Computing 2007 – IDC 2007 was the?rst Inter- tional Symposium aimed at 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-?elds of computer s- ence. IDC was started as an initiative of research groups from: (i) Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and (ii) Software Engine- ing Department of the University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania. IDC 2007 was held in Craiova, Romania during October 18-19, 2007. This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the IDC 2007. We - ceived 52 submissions from 24 countries. This Book Presents The Proceedings Of The 1st International Symposium On Intelligent And Distributed Computing, Idc 2007, Held In Craiova, Romania, October 2007. Coverage Includes: Autonomous And Adaptive Computing; Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery; Distributed Problem Solving And Decision Making; E-business, E-health And E-learning; Genetic Algorithms; Image Processing; Information Retrieval; Intelligence In Mobile And Ubiquitous Computing.