The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence is an annual
forum that brings together ideas projects lessons etc. associated with distr- uted 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 S- tem and Educational Technology Research Group of
the Univ- sity 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 c-
ference is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to complex
problems. The artificial intelligence is changing our society. Its application in distr- uted
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.
