Studies in Computational Intelligence 78: Advances in intelligent and Distributed Computing IDC 2007

Intelligent computing is becoming a mature field of information and communication technology, covering a hybrid palette of methods and techniques derived from classical artifcial intelligence, computational intelligence, multi-agent systems etc. Intelligent computing is generally known to be computationally intensive from the point of view of resources required: time, memory, bandwidth. As such high resources assumption is one of its main drawbacks, distributed computing is expected to give an impetus to its practical utilization. Moreover, intelligent techniques have also proved their usefulness to the core distributed computing technologies like planning and scheduling, load balancing, replication, resource allocation and management, and its applications. Therefore, the emerging field of intelligent distributed computing can be expected both, to bring a fruitful cooperation and to pose new challenges of adaptation of both areas. Intelligent and Distributed Computing 2007 IDC 2007 was the first International Symposium aimed at bringing together researchers involved in intelligent and distributed computing to allow cross-fertilization and search for synergies of ideas and to enable advancement of research in these exciting sub fields of computer science. IDC was started as an initiative of research groups from: (i) Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and (ii) Software Engineering Department of the University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania. IDC 2007 was held in Craiova, Romania during October 18-19, 2007. This book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the IDC 2007. We - ceived 52 submissions from 24 countries.