This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems, ISSADS 2004, held in Guadalajara, Mexico in January 2004.The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.

International School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems.- Myths, Beliefs and Superstitions about the Quality of Software and of Its Teaching.- Enhancing a Telerobotics Java Tool with Augmented Reality.- VIBES: Bringing Autonomy to Virtual Characters.- An Overview of the Virtuosi Toolkit.- Assessing the Impact of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP): A Reading Technique.- An Open Multiagent Architecture to Improve Reliability and Adaptability of Systems.- Toward a Generic MAS Test Bed.- State Controlled Execution for Agent-Object Hybrid Languages.- Cognitive Agents and Paraconsistent Logic.- A Multiagent Infrastructure for Self-organized Physical Embodied Systems: An Application to Wireless Communication Management.- Tlachtli*: A Framework for Soccer Agents Based on GeDa-3D.- Evaluating Location Dependent Queries Using ISLANDS.- Conceptual Information Retrieval.- Semantic Search Engines.- The Internal-Local-Remote Dependency Model for Generic Coordination in Distributed Collaboration Sessions.- About the Value of Virtual Communities in P2P Networks.- Search in Communities: An Approach Derived from the Physic Analogue of Thermal Fields.- A Component-Based Design Approach for Collaborative Distributed Systems.- Architecture for Locating Mobile CORBA Objects in Wireless Mobile Environment.- Integration of Load Balancing into a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm.- Random Distributed Self-stabilizing Structures Maintenance.- A New On-Line Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Real-Time System.- Facing Combinatory Explosion in NAC Networks.- Multiple Correspondences and Log-linear Adjustment in E-commerce.- A Distributed Digital Text Accessing and Acquisition System.