The 33 peer-reviewed contributions published in this book address a wide range of topics related to the theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems. They cover topics from bio-informatics to semantic web services.

Invited Papers.- Multi-Agent Systems: A Paradigm to Design Ambient Intelligent Applications.- Information Extraction and Web Applications.- High-Level Web Data Abstraction Using Language Integrated Query.- Semantic Web Service Clustering for Efficient Discovery Using an Ant-Based Method.- A Distributed Service-Based Software Infrastructure for Trip Planning in Motorway Auto-routes Context.- WebKM - Online Data Mining System.- A New Framework for the Extraction of Contour Lines in Scanned Topographic Maps.- Collaborative Systems.- A Collaborative Approach to Construction of Complex Service Oriented Systems.- Collaborative Distributed Fault Simulation for Digital Electronic Circuits.- Go4Flex: Goal-Oriented Process Modelling.- Towards a Reference Model for the Runtime-Phase of Semantic Data Mediation.- Distributed Algorithms and Complex Systems.- A Distributed Algorithm for Personalized Trust Evaluation in Social Networks.- A Distributed Associative Classification Algorithm.- Distributed Multi-agent System for Solving Traveling Salesman Problem Using Ant Colony Optimization.- Optimal Message Interchange in a Self-organizing Multi-agent System.- Pervasive, Ambiental and Grid Computing.- Compromised Resources Tolerance in Grid Computing Systems.- Pervasive Home Security: An Intelligent Domotics Application.- Ambient Intelligence: From Scenario Analysis towards a Bottom-Up Design.- Equitable Leach-E Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks.- Ontologies and Rules.- Evaluation of Semi-automated Ontology Instance Migration.- Morality in Group Decision Support Systems in Medicine.- A Domain Ontology Learning from Web Documents.- Articulation and Sharing of Distributed Design Project and Process Knowledge.- Modeling and Security.- High-Level Petri Nets with Object-Orientation – A High-Level Petri Net Model Allowing Multiple Inheritance and Multiple Polymorphism.- Mobile Agents with Timers, and Their Implementation.- Improving the Security of CHAP Protocol by Quantum Cryptography.- Simulation of Botnets: Agent-Based Approach.- Parallel Computational Intelligence.- Parallel Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm Approaches for Protein Structure Prediction Using the 3DHP-SC Model.- Parallel Constraint-Based Local Search on the Cell/BE Multicore Architecture.- Analysis of Huge Volume of Documents on a Hybrid HPC Cluster.- MASTS’2010 Papers.- Agent-Based Information Sharing for Ambient Intelligence.- An Economy Model Based on Barter Exchanges between Software Agents.- Finding Network Resources by Using Mobile Agents.- VICAL: Visual Cognitive Architecture to Understanding Image Semantic Content.

This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC 2010 and of the Second International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics -- MASTS'2010. Both events were held in Tangier, Morocco during September 16-18, 2010. The 33 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: agent-based e-business, ambient intelligence, bio-informatics, collaborative systems, cryptography and security, distributed algorithms, distributed data mining, distributed simulation, grid computing, image processing, information extraction, knowledge management, logic programming, mobile agents, ontologies, pervasive computing, Petri nets, process modeling, self-organizing systems, semantic web services, service oriented computing, social networks and trust, swarm intelligence, web applications, wireless sensor networks.

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