Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013 eBook

This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC-2013, of the Second Workshop on Agents for Clouds – A4C-2013, of the Fifth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics – MASTS-2013, and of the International Workshop on Intelligent Robots – iR-2013. All the events were held in Prague, Czech Republic during September 4-6, 2013. The 41 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: agent-based data processing, ambient intelligence, bio-informatics, collaborative systems, cryptography and security, distributed algorithms, grid and cloud computing, information extraction, intelligent robotics, knowledge management, linked data, mobile agents, ontologies, pervasive computing, self-organizing systems, peer-to-peer computing, social networks and trust, and swarm intelligence.