Intelligent Distributed Computing VI: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2012, Calabria, Italy, September 2012

The 37 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: adaptive and autonomous
distributed systems, agent programming, ambient assisted
living systems, business process modeling and verification, cloud
computing, coalition formation, decision support systems, distributed optimization and constraint satisfaction, gesture recognition, intelligent energy management in WSNs, intelligent logistics, machine learning, mobile agents, parallel and distributed computational intelligence, parallel evolutionary computing, trust metrics and security, scheduling in distributed heterogenous computing environments, semantic Web service composition, social simulation, and software agents for WSNs.