Advanced Distributed Systems: Third International School and Symposium, ISSADS 2004, Guadalajara, Mexico, January 24-30, 2004. Revised Selected Papers

Adolfo Guzman Arenas (auth.), Félix F. Ramos, Herwig Unger, Victor Larios (eds.)3540221727, 9783540221722, 9783540259589

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems, ISSADS 2004, held in Guadalajara, Mexico in January 2004.

The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.

Among the topics addressed are virtual characters, distributed toolkits, serial visual presentation, multi-agent architectures, MAS, agent-object hybrid languages, robot soccer agents, distributed querying, semantic search engines, coordination, distributed collaboration, virtual communities, peer-to-peer networks, P2P systems, distributed search mobile objects, load balancing, distributed algorithms, scheduling, and distributed information systems.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Myths, Beliefs and Superstitions about the Quality of Software and of Its Teaching….Pages 1-8
Enhancing a Telerobotics Java Tool with Augmented Reality….Pages 9-18
VIBES: Bringing Autonomy to Virtual Characters….Pages 19-30
An Overview of the Virtuosi Toolkit….Pages 31-41
Assessing the Impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP): A Reading Technique….Pages 42-53
An Open Multiagent Architecture to Improve Reliability and Adaptability of Systems….Pages 54-66
Toward a Generic MAS Test Bed….Pages 67-77
State Controlled Execution for Agent-Object Hybrid Languages….Pages 78-90
Cognitive Agents and Paraconsistent Logic….Pages 91-104
A Multiagent Infrastructure for Self-organized Physical Embodied Systems: An Application to Wireless Communication Management….Pages 105-117
Tlachtli*: A Framework for Soccer Agents Based on GeDa-3D….Pages 118-124
Evaluating Location Dependent Queries Using ISLANDS….Pages 125-136
Conceptual Information Retrieval….Pages 137-144
Semantic Search Engines….Pages 145-157
The Internal-Local-Remote Dependency Model for Generic Coordination in Distributed Collaboration Sessions….Pages 158-169
About the Value of Virtual Communities in P2P Networks….Pages 170-185
Search in Communities: An Approach Derived from the Physic Analogue of Thermal Fields….Pages 186-196
A Component-Based Design Approach for Collaborative Distributed Systems….Pages 197-206
Architecture for Locating Mobile CORBA Objects in Wireless Mobile Environment….Pages 207-218
Integration of Load Balancing into a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm….Pages 219-230
Random Distributed Self-stabilizing Structures Maintenance….Pages 231-240
A New On-Line Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Real-Time System….Pages 241-251
Facing Combinatory Explosion in NAC Networks….Pages 252-260
Multiple Correspondences and Log-linear Adjustment in E-commerce….Pages 261-273
A Distributed Digital Text Accessing and Acquisition System….Pages 274-283
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