International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI´08)

The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence is an
annual forum that brings together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distributed
computing, artificial intelligence and its applications in different themes. This
meeting has been held at the University of Salamanca from the 22th to the 24th of
October 2008. This symposium has be organized by the Biomedicine, Intelligent System
and Educational Technology Research Group (http://bisite.usal.es/) of the University
of Salamanca. The technology transfer in this field is still a challenge and for that
reason this type of contributions has been specially considered in this edition. This conference
is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to complex
problems. The artificial intelligence is changing our society. Its application in distributed
environments, such as the Internet, electronic commerce, mobile communications,
wireless devices, distributed computing, and so on is increasing and is becoming an
element of high added value and economic potential, both industrial and research. These
technologies are changing constantly as a result of the large research and technical effort
being undertaken in both universities and businesses. The exchange of ideas between
scientists and technicians from both academic and business areas is essential to facilitate
the development of systems that meet the demands of today’s society.
This symposium has evolved from the Iberoamerican Symposium on Distributed
Computing and continues to grow and prosper in its role as one of the premier conferences
devoted to the quickly changing landscape of distributed computing, artificial
intelligence and the application of AI to distributed systems. This year’s technical
program is extremely strong and diverse, with contributions in both established and
evolving areas of research. Submitted papers came from over 16 different countries,
representing a truly “wide area network” of research activity. The DCAI technical program
includes 88 papers (74 long papers, 12 short papers and 2 doctoral consortium)
selected from a submission pool of 142 papers, from 16 different countries. In addition
to the main DCAI program, DCAI’08 is host to several other events: Third Symposium
of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence 2008, Second International Workshop
on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, and Second
International Workshop on User-Centric Technologies and applications.
We thank the excellent work of the local organization members and also from the
members of the Program Committee for their excellent reviewing work.
October 2008 Juan M. Corchado
Sara Rodríguez
James Llinas
José M. Molina