Advances in Intelligent and Distributed Computing, 2008 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing IDC 2007, Craiova, Romania, October 2007 Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 78

Invited Papers.- The world of autonomous distributed systems.- Time and Space Coordination of Mobile Agents.- The Difficulty of Search and an Interesting Solution.- Distributed Decision Making for Robot Teams.- Fully Coupled and Feedforward Neural Networks with Complex-Valued Neurons.- Regular Papers.- Cluster-Based Route Discovery Protocol.- Object-Oriented High Level Petri Nets as a Formal Language for Modelling and Design Multi-Agent Systems.- Considerations on the Design and Implementation of an Agent-Based Auction Service.- Automatic Streaming Processing of XSLT Transformations Based on Tree Transducers.- Knowledge Processing for Web Search — An Integrated Model.- Applying Social Behaviours to Model Trusting.- Using Ant’s Alarm Pheromone to Improve Software Testing Automation *.- Aspects Concerning SVM Method’s Scalability.- On Interchange between JBoss Rules and Jess.- A Cross-Entropy Approach to Solving Dec-POMDPs.- Polyphony, a Knowledge-based Chat System Supporting Collaborative Work.- Decomposition and Processing Strategies of Global XQuery Queries over Distributed Environments.- Description and Organization of Instructional Resources in an Adaptive Educational System Focused on Learning Styles.- JTangPS: Content-Based Publish/Subscribe over Structured P2P Networks.- Using the color set back-projection algorithm in retrieval and evaluation of endoscopic images.- Granularity of Medical Software Agents in ICU -Trade-off Performance versus Flexibility.- APP: Agent Planning Package.- Converting Programs into Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Regular Papers.- Models for Temporal and Spatial Terrain Coverage.- Using Genetic Algorithms to Optimise Rough Set Partition Sizes for HIV Data Analysis.- Semantic Web and Rule Reasoning inside of E-Learning Systems.- Web-based Remote Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Laboratory Using the Integrated Learning Methodology (ILM).- Reasoning on Activity-centered Semantics in Request-Service Matchmaking.- Marked-Controlled Rewriting EFPN for Dynamic Knowledge Inference.- Off-Line Signature Verification using Feature Based Image Registration.- Collaboration of Intelligent, Autonomous Systems: Situation Aware Behavior Change.- On the Distributed Water Pollution Control Solving with an Agent-Based Approach.- Learn Reversi using Parallel Genetic Algorithms.- Graph-based semantic description and information extraction in analysis of 3D coronary vessels visualizations.