Costin Badica & Jason J. Jung 
Intelligent Distributed Computing VII [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing — IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013

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 — i R-2013.All the events were held in Prague, Czech Republic during September 4-6, 2013.The 41 contributions published in this book address many topicsrelated to theory and applications of intelligent distributedcomputing 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.