Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management

Intelligent methods are used in distributed environments in countless ways, with examples such as propagation, communication, collaboration, and cooperation. With the abundant purposes for intelligence in distributed systems, it is pertinent for researchers, technicians, and students in various areas of computer science to discover the most current and definitive advances in the field. Intelligence Integration in Distributed Knowledge Management provides recent technologies and practices in intelligence for distributed systems while covering major aspects of the agent based systems. This book is a must for those striving to enhance their understanding of distributed knowledge management and extend their ideas of cooperation using for numerous real-world problems.

Dariusz Król is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology. He received M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1990 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2001, both from the Wroclaw University of Technology. His major research interests are open distributed systems, semantic collaboration and communication and intelligent evaluation. His teaching includes database systems, Java and Internet technologies. He is an author of over 60 scientific publications (including journal and conference papers) and a co-author of 2 books in C programming and business information systems. In 2005 he won the IBM Award for the work on Eclipse Didactic Distribution.

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen currently works as a professor of computer science in Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland). His scientific interests consist of knowledge integration methods, intelligent technologies for conflict resolution, multi-agent systems, and e-learning methods. He has edited 6 special issues in international journals and two books. He is the author of 4 monographs, editor of 7 volumes and author of about 150 other publications. He serves as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, editor-in-chief of two book series for IGI Global (Advances in Applied Intelligence Technologies and Computational Intelligence and its Applications), associate editor of International Journal of Computer Science & Applications; Journal of Information Knowledge System Management and KES Journal and a member of editorial boards of several other international journals. He is the chair of KES symposium series on agent and multi-agent systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.