Part I Invited Papers.-

Part II Self-organization and Bio-Inspiration.-

Part III Multi-Agent Systems.-

Part IV Agent-based Intelligent Applications.-

Part V Distributed Systems.-

Part VI Parallel Computing.-

Part VIII Agents and Sensor Networks.-

Part IX Collaborative Computing, Mobile Networks and Intelligence.-

Part X A4C 2012.-

Part XI MASTS 2012.

This book represents the combined peer-reviewed proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing -- IDC~2012, of the International Workshop on Agents for Cloud -- A4C~2012 and of the Fourth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics -- MASTS~2012. All the events were held in Calabria, Italy during September 24-26, 2012.

The 37 contributions published in this book address many topics related to theory and applications of intelligent distributed computing and multi-agent systems, including: adaptive and autonomous
distributed systems, agent programming, ambient assisted
living systems, business process modeling and verification, cloud
computing, coalition formation, decision support systems, distributed optimization and constraint satisfaction, gesture recognition, intelligent energy management in WSNs, intelligent logistics, machine learning, mobile agents, parallel and distributed computational intelligence, parallel evolutionary computing, trust metrics and security, scheduling in distributed heterogenous computing environments, semantic Web service composition, social simulation, and software agents for WSNs.