The Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience journal presents papers presented at the International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC) held in 2014 in Madrid. Alexander Pokahr and and Lars Braubach focus on the effective utilization of theoretically unlimited distributed and virtual resources, which are provided by the Cloud computing paradigm. They present a component-based Cloud platform that provides autonomic management of applications using scale-out and on-demand deployment of computing resources at IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) level. Tri Nguyen Tuong, Dosam Hwang and Jason J. Jung propose a method to predict the location of unlabeled resources on social networking services. The described approach uses the Naive Bayes and Support Vector Machine methods to classify the resources that are collected by using the term frequency of the tags in each class. Davide Carneiro, AndreÁ Pimenta, Sérgio GoncA○alves, JoseÁ Neves and Paulo Novais discuss about monitoring and management of individual's performance in workplace contexts.