This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings

of the Seventh International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC-2013, of the Second Workshop on Agents for Clouds - A4C-2013, of the Fifth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics - MASTS-2013,

and of the International Workshop on Intelligent Robots - iR-2013.

All the events were held in Prague, Czech Republic during September 4-6, 2013.

The 41 contributions published in this book address many topics

related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed

computing and multi-agent systems, including:

agent-based data processing, ambient intelligence, bio-informatics, collaborative systems, cryptography and security, distributed algorithms, grid and cloud computing, information extraction, intelligent robotics, knowledge management, linked data, mobile agents, ontologies, pervasive computing, self-organizing systems, peer-to-peer computing, social networks and trust, and swarm intelligence.