MATES 2003

 MATES 2003

AIMS & SCOPE

For the first time, the German special
interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes a conference
to promote the theory and application of agents and multiagent systems. The
German conference on M ulti A gent system TE chnologie S
(MATES) covers the whole range from theory to application of agent- and multiagent
technology. It aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum for both, researchers
and members of business and industry, to present and discuss latest advances
in theoretic work on, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent
agents. The conference features an exhibition of practical applications with
an advanced concept of agency, as well as workshops and introductory and expert
courses on practical aspects of agent-based computing.
Building on the sequence of agent-related
events in Germany in the past such as VDI 1998 (Chemnitz), VertIS 2001 (Bamberg),
and KI 2002 (Aachen), MATES'03 now is exclusively devoted to agents and multiagent
systems, and the cross-fertilization between agent theory and application.
In addition, it builds on the success of the past international workshop on
"Agent Technology and Software Engineering (AgeS'02)", and the international
symposium on "Multiagent Systems, Large Complex Systems, and E-Businesses
(MALCEB'02)".
MATES'03 is co-located with the fourth international
conference NetObject
Days 2003 in an exciting point event. The conference language of MATES'03
is English; special conference sessions such as the annual meeting of the
German SIG on DAI and the panel discussion on an "Agentcities Germany"
project initiative are held in German.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of MATES'03 will be published
as a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI).

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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MATES 2003 Topics of Interest
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Topics
of interest for MATES'03 include, but are not limited to:
- Agent architectures
- Agent communication languages and protocols
- Agent technology for requirements engineering
- Agent technology for synthesizing software specifications

- Agent technology for verification and validation of software

- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Agents and social navigation on the web
- Agents for e-business and e-government

- Agents in enterprise application integration and business process (re-)engineering

- Agents in novel applications, e.g. bioinformatics, the semantic web

- Argumentation, conflicts and conflict resolution
- Artificial life

- Artificial social systems, theories and implementations based on sociology,
socionics
- Auctions, negotiation, and coalition formation
- Autonomous robots and robot teams
- Best practices in agent-oriented development
- Computational complexity and agent systems

- Coordination of multiple agents/activities & coordination infrastructures

- Economics principles for multi-agent systems
- Engineering of large-scale open systems

- Ethical and political issues in creating or deploying agent systems

- Evolution and adaptation in multiagent systems

- Experiences and case studies of using agent concepts in software engineering

- Formal methods for agent-oriented systems, including specification and verification
logics

- Human-like, lifelike, and believable qualities of synthetic agents

- Interface agents, conversational agents and user modelling
- Logics & formal models of agency and multiagent systems
- Methodologies for agent-oriented analysis and design
- Mobile agent systems
- Model checking for agent-oriented systems
- Motivation, goal selection and theories of rational agency

- Multiagent groups, teams, organizations, and societies, holonic multiagent
systems
- Multiagent learning and planning
- Multiagent platforms and design tools

- Multiagent-based simulation for sociobiological, social, economic, and environmental
issues

- Ontologies for agents and social modelling ontologies in agent-based information
systems and knowledge management
- Performance measurement for multiagent systems
- Philosophical foundations of agents

- Privacy, security and agents: conceptual, technical, and legal issues

- Relationship between agents and component technologies (e.g., EJB)

- Relationship between agents and web services

- Relationship of AOSE to other software engineering paradigms (e.g., OO, P2P)

- Re-use approaches for agent-oriented software (design patterns, frameworks,
components, and architectures)
- RoboCup Soccer and RoboCup Rescue

- Robustness, fault tolerance, and failure detection, scalability issues

- Self-organizing systems and emergent organization

- Social order, conventions, norms, social control, and institutions

- Social simulation and cognitive modelling with agents

- Software development environments and CASE tools for agent-based systems

- Standards for agents and multiagent systems
- Theories of agency and autonomy
- UML and agent systems
- Use of semantic information in software engineering

- User and agent modelling, social reasoning, and social intelligence

- Virtual office and office automation
- Virtual organizations/enterprises

SUBMISSION DETAILS
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MATES 2003 Submission Details
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For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the
instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .
For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be formatted
in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available, please use one
of the similar fonts widely used in phototypesetting.) Printing area should
be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, and the interline distance should be arranged in such a
way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a full-text page.

The length of each paper including figures and references may
not exceed 12 pages . All papers must be written in English and submitted
in PDF format. Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other
conferences, workshops, or journals are not eligible for submission. Submissions
not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. You
may submit your paper
- via E-Mail to MATES03.submission@gi-vki.de
(strongly preferred; please send zipped files)
or

- via postal Mail: please send 3 hard copies (unstapled pages)
of your contribution to
Michael Schillo
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbrücken
Germany
Submission of papers: April 28,
2003
Submission of course proposals: May 26, 2003
Submission of exhibit/demo: May 26, 2003
Notification of authors: June 16, 2003
Camera-ready papers: June 30, 2003
Proceedings
The proceedings of MATES'03 will be published as a volume
in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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MATES 2003 Conference Officials
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Program Co-Chairs:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jörg Müller (Siemens AG, Germany)
Michael Schillo (DFKI, Germany)
Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Local Organisation Co-Chair:
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Advisory Board:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jörg Müller (Siemens AG, Germany)
Michael Schillo (DFKI, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (TU München, Germany)
Tutorials/Courses Chair:
Matthias Klusch
DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-3025297
Fax: +49-681-3022235
klusch@dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch
Exhibition Chair:
Jörg Müller
Siemens AG, München, Germany
Phone: ++49 89 636 43135
Fax: ++49 89 636 41423
Joerg.Mueller@mchp.siemens.de
General Inquiries:
Michael Schillo
DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49-681-3024578
Fax: +49-681-3022235
schillo@dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/~schillo/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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MATES 2003 Program Committee
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Elisabeth Andre (U Augsburg, Germany)
Bernhard Bauer (U Augsburg, Germany)
Wolfgang Benn (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
Michael Berger (Siemens AG, Germany)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Wilfried Brauer (TU München, Germany)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (NRC Rome, Italy)
Paolo Ciancarini (U Bologna, Italy)
Rosaria Conte (NRC Rome, Italy)
Hans Czap (Uni Trier)
Kerstin Dautenhahn (U Hertfordshire)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
Norbert Fuhr (U Dortmund, Germany)
Ulrich Fuhrbach (U Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Petra Funk (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland)
Otthein Herzog (U Bremen, Germany)
Michael Huhns (U South Carolina, USA)
Heinrich Hussmann (TU Dresden, Germany)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Liz Kendall (Monash U, Australia)
Stefan Kirn (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Franziska Klügl (U Würzburg, Germany)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (CSIRO, Australia)
Gerhard Kraetzschmar (U Ulm, Germany)
Karl Kurbel (U Frankfurt/Oder, Germany)
Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen)
Jürgen Lind (Iteratec GmbH, Germany)
Gabriele Lindemann (HU Berlin,Germany)
Jiming Liu (Hong-Kong Baptist U, China)
Kecheng Liu (U Reading, UK)
Peter B. Luh (U Connecticut, USA)
Jürgen Müller (BeeBetter GmbH, Germany)
James Odell (James Odell Associates, USA)
Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia)
Mike Papazoglou (U Tilburg, The Netherlands)
Anna Perini (ITC Trento, Italy)
Paolo Petta (TU Wien, Austria)
Frank Puppe (U Würzburg, Germany)
Giovanni Rimassa (U Parma, Italy)
Michael Rovatsos (TU München, Germany)
Rudi Studer (U Karlsruhe, Germany)
Ingo Timm (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Robert Tolksdorf (TU Berlin, Germany)
Mihaela Ulieru (U Calgary, Canada)
Gerhard Weiss (TU München, Germany)
Mike Wooldridge (U Liverpool, UK)
David Zhang (U Exeter, UK)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes U, UK)
The
following distinguished researchers and practitioners have confirmed their participation
in the program committee of MATES'03: