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Symposium Program

IDC 2009 - 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed ComputingOctober 13-14, 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
Symposium Programme
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:20 Welcome Address
9:20 - 10:20 Invited Paper: Nicholas R. Jennings and Alex Rogers
Computational Service Economies: Design and Applications
Chair: George A. Papadopoulos
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:50 Session 1: Cooperative Systems       
Chair: Elvira Popescu
10:50 - 11:10 Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Linh Anh Nguyen, and Andrzej Szałas
Fusing Approximate Knowledge from Distributed Sources
11:10 - 11:30 Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge, and Michał Slizak
Case-study for TeamLog, a Theory of Teamwork
11:30 - 11:50 Andrei Olaru, Cristian Gratie, and Adina Magda Florea (Andrei-Horia Mogos)
Emergent Properties for Data Distribution in a Cognitive MAS
11:50 - 12:10

Alon Grubshtein and Amnon Meisels
Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings

12:10 - 12:20 Joe Gorman and Ulrik Johansen
Distributed Information Sharing in Mobile Environments
12:20 - 12:30 Carmen Morgado, Jose C. Cunha, Nuno Correia, and Jorge Custodio
Group-based Interactions for Multiuser Applications
12:30 - 12:40 S. M. Iacob, C. H. M. Nieuwenhuis, N. J. E. Wijngaards, G. Pavlin, and J. B. van Veelen
Actor-Agent Communities: Design Approaches
12:40 - 12:50 Laszlo Aszalos and Andreas Herzig
A Protocol for Execution of Distributed Logic Programs
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00 Invited Paper: Dana Petcu
Challenges of Data Processing for Earth Observation in Distributed Environments
Chair: Costin Badica
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:30 Session 2: Autonomic and P2P Systems       
Chair: Barbara Keplicz 
16:30 - 16:50 Juan Luis J. Laredo, Carlos Fernandes, Antonio Mora, Pedro A. Castillo, Pablo Garcıa-Sanchez, and Juan Julian Merelo
Studying the Cache Size in a Gossip-based Evolutionary Algorithm
16:50 - 17:10 Blesson Varghese and Gerard McKee
Autonomous Execution of Tasks by Swarm Carrier Agents in Swarm-Array Computing
17:10 - 17:30 Christian Johansson, Fredrik Wernstedt, and Paul Davidsson
A Case Study on Availability of Sensor Data in Agent Cooperation
17:30 - 17:40 Mircea Bardac, George Milescu, and Razvan Deaconescu (Andreea Urzica)
Monitoring a BitTorrent Tracker for Peer-to-Peer System Analysis
17:40 - 17:50

Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Armando Morado Ferreia, Carlos Eduardo Pereira, and Tony Larsson
Middleware Support in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance Applications

17:50 - 18:00 Mihnea Scafes and Costin Badica
Distributed Goal-Oriented Reasoning Engine for Multi-Agent Systems: Initial Implementation
18:00 - 18:10

Eusebiu Marcu
Self-built Grid

18:10 - 18:30 Doina Bein, Ajoy K. Datta, and Balaji ashok Sathyanarayanan
E client Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding
20:00 Social Event (Dinner in a traditional Cypriot taverna)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:20 Session 3: Services, Ontologies and Frameworks
Chair: David Camacho 
9:00 - 9:20 Gregor Pavlin, Michiel Kamermans, and Mihnea Scafes
Dynamic Process Integration Framework: Toward E cient Information Processing in Complex Distributed Systems
9:20 - 9:40 Mirel Cosulschi, Oana Nicolae, Mihai Gabroveanu, and Nicolae Constantinescu (Cristian Mihaescu)
Web Services for Search Integration
9:40 - 9:50 Beniamino Di Martino and Pasquale CantielloAutomatic Ontology Extraction with Text Clustering
9:50 - 10:00 Andrei-Horia Mogos and Andreea Urzica
A Textual Notation for Process Modelling
10:00 - 10:10 Kalliopi Kravari, Efstratios Kontopoulos, and Nick Bassiliades
A Trusted Defeasible Reasoning Service for Brokering Agents in the SemanticWeb
10:10 - 10:20 Alex Muscar and Mirel Cosulschi (Cristian Mihaescu)
Blueprint. A Continuation-based Web Framework
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:50 Session 4: Applications
Chair: Michele Malgeri 
10:50 - 11:10 David F. Barrero, David Camacho, and Maria D. R-Moreno
A Framework for Agent-Based Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms
11:10 - 11:30 Elvira Popescu, Costin Badica, and Lucian MoraretWELSA: An Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational System
11:30 - 11:50 Eugenijus Kurilovas
Interoperability, Standards and Metadata for e-Learning
11:50 - 12:10

Gabriel Mihai, Liana Stanescu, Dumitru Burdescu, Marius Brezovan, and Cosmin Stoica Spahiu (Elvira Popescu)
A Topic Map for ”subject-centric” Learning

12:10 - 12:20 Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Ricardo Costa, Jose Machado, and Jose Neves
A Memory Assistant for the Elderly
12:20 - 12:30 Claudiu Tanase and Andreea Urzica
Global Military Conflict Simulator
12:30 - 12:40 Cristian Mihaescu, Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Mihai Mocanu, and Costel Ionascu
Obtaining Knowledge Using Educational Data Mining
12:40 - 12:50

Karin Rainer, Nadine Sturm, Stefan Sch¨onhacker, and Gerhard Chroust
SimRad.NBC – Simulation and Information System for Rescue Units at CBRN Disasters

12:50 - 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00 Session 5: Trust and Privacy
Chair: Gregor Pavlin 
15:00 - 15:20 Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri, and Giuseppe Mangioni
The Assessment of Expertise in Social Networks
15:20 - 15:40 Changjun Hu, Yu Weng, Xuechun Zhang, and Chengxiu Xue
Hot Topic Detection Based on Opinion Analysis for Web Forums in Distributed Environment
15:40 - 15:50 Miroslav Novotny and Filip Zavoral
Towards Reliable Trust Management in Insecure P2P Environments
15:50 - 16:00 Giannakis Antoniou, Lynn Batten, Shivaramakrishnan Narayan, and Udaya Parampalli
A Privacy Preserving e-Payment Scheme
16:00 - 16:10 Closing Session  


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Accepted Papers

Regular Papers
A Protocol for Execution of Distributed Logic Programs
Laszlo Aszalos and Andreas Herzig

A Framework for Agent-Based Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms
David F. Barrero, David Camacho, and Maria D. R-Moreno

Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding
Doina Bein, Ajoy K. Datta, and Balaji ashok Sathyanarayanan

The Assessment of Expertise in Social Networks
Vincenza Carchiolo, Alessandro Longheu, Michele Malgeri, and Giuseppe Mangioni

Web Services for Search Integration
Mirel Cosulschi, Oana Nicolae, Mihai Gabroveanu, and Nicolae Constantinescu

Fusing Approximate Knowledge from Distributed Sources
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Linh Anh Nguyen, and Andrzej Szałas

Case-study for TeamLog, a Theory of Teamwork
Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Rineke Verbrugge, and Michał Slizak

Hot Topic Detection Based on Opinion Analysis for Web Forums in Distributed Environment
Changjun Hu, Yu Weng, Xuechun Zhang, and Chengxiu Xue

A Case Study on Availability of Sensor Data in Agent Cooperation
Christian Johansson, Fredrik Wernstedt, and Paul Davidsson

Interoperability, Standards and Metadata for e-Learning
Eugenijus Kurilovas

Studying the Cache Size in a Gossip-based Evolutionary Algorithm
Juan Luis J. Laredo, Carlos Fernandes, Antonio Mora, Pedro A. Castillo, Pablo Garcia-Sanchez, and Juan Julian Merelo

A Topic Map for ”subject-centric” Learning
Gabriel Mihai, Liana Stanescu, Dumitru Burdescu, Marius Brezovan, and Cosmin Stoica Spahiu

Emergent Properties for Data Distribution in a Cognitive MAS
Andrei Olaru, Cristian Gratie, and Adina Magda Florea

Dynamic Process Integration Framework: Toward Efficient Information Processing in Complex Distributed Systems
Gregor Pavlin, Michiel Kamermans, and Mihnea Scafes

WELSA: An Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational System
Elvira Popescu, Costin Badica, and Lucian Moraret

Autonomous Execution of Tasks by Swarm Carrier Agents in Swarm-Array Computing
Blesson Varghese and Gerard McKee

Short Papers
A Privacy Preserving e-Payment Scheme
Giannakis Antoniou, Lynn Batten, Shivaramakrishnan Narayan, and Udaya Parampalli

Monitoring a BitTorrent Tracker for Peer-to-Peer System Analysis
Mircea Bardac, George Milescu, and Razvan Deaconescu

A Memory Assistant for the Elderly
Angelo Costa, Paulo Novais, Ricardo Costa, Jose Machado, and Jose Neves

Automatic Ontology Extraction with Text Clustering
Beniamino Di Martino and Pasquale Cantiello

Distributed Information Sharing in Mobile Environments
Joe Gorman and Ulrik Johansen

Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings
Alon Grubshtein and Amnon Meisels

Actor-Agent Communities: Design Approaches
S. M. Iacob, C. H. M. Nieuwenhuis, N. J. E. Wijngaards, G. Pavlin, and J. B. Van Veelen

A Trusted Defeasible Reasoning Service for Brokering Agents in the SemanticWeb
Kalliopi Kravari, Efstratios Kontopoulos, and Nick Bassiliades

Self-built Grid
Eusebiu Marcu

Obtaining Knowledge Using Educational Data Mining
Cristian Mihaescu, Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Mihai Mocanu, and Costel Ionascu

TN4PM. A Textual Notation for Process Modelling
Andrei-Horia Mogos and Andreea Urzica

Group-based Interactions for Multiuser Applications
Carmen Morgado, Jose C. Cunha, Nuno Correia, and Jorge Custodio

Blueprint. A Continuation-based Web Framework
Alex Muscar and Mirel Cosulschi

Towards Reliable Trust Management in Insecure P2P Environments
Miroslav Novotny and Filip Zavoral

Middleware Support in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance Applications
Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Armando Morado Ferreia, Carlos Eduardo Pereira, and Tony Larsson

SimRad.NBC – Simulation and Information System for Rescue Units at CBRN Disasters
Karin Rainer, Nadine Sturm, Stefan Schonhacker, and Gerhard Chroust

Distributed Goal-Oriented Reasoning Engine for Multi-Agent Systems: Initial Implementation
Mihnea Scafes and Costin Badica

Global Military Conflict Simulator

Claudiu Tanase and Andreea Urzica