Intelligent Distributed Computing III presents the current research in the field in one comprehensive reference. Topics like actor-agent systems, agent-based simulation, autonomic computing and distributed data mining are among the many areas discussed.

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 MultiuserApplications.- 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.

This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009 held in Ayia Napa, Cyprus during October 13-14, 2009. The 36 contributions in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing, including: actor-agent systems, agentbased simulation, autonomic computing, computational service economies, defeasible reasoning, distributed data mining, distributed logic programming, e-learning, emergent properties in complex systems, formal methods of intelligent distributed systems, genetic and evolutionary algorithms, information retrieval, knowledge fusion, multi-sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, mobile computing, ontologies and metadata, peer-to-peer networks, process modeling and integration, remote sensing distributed systems, secure e-payment systems, social networks, surveillance and disaster management applications, swarm computing, Web services and systems.