This book gathers a wealth of research contributions on recent advances in intelligent and
distributed computing and which present both architectural and algorithmic findings in these
fields. A major focus is placed on new techniques and applications for evolutionary computation
swarm intelligence multi-agent systems multi-criteria optimization and Deep Shallow machine
learning models all of which are approached as technological drivers to enable autonomous
reasoning and decision-making in complex distributed environments. Part of the book is also
devoted to new scheduling and resource allocation methods for distributed computing systems.
The book represents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on
Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2018) which was held in Bilbao Spain from October 15
to 17 2018.
