MATES 2004
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The German conference on Multi-agent system TEchnologieS (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users (members of business and industry) and developers, to present and discuss latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents. The conference covers the whole range from theory to application of agent- and multi-agent technologies in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. The conference features an exhibition of practical applications with an advanced concept of agency, as well as introductory and expert keynotes/tutorials on practical aspects of agent-based computing.
For the second time the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence jointly with the steering committee of MATES organizes this international conference in order to promote theory and application of agents and multi-agent systems. 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), the MATES conference series (MATES03) now is exclusively devoted to agents and multi-agent systems, and the cross-fertilization between agent theory and application. MATES'04 is conducted as an integral part of the fifth international conference NetObjectDays 2004 in an exciting joint event. The conference language is English.
Moreover, it is co-located with other agent-related events, especially the 8th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA) 2004 , and the autumn FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents) meeting. Finally, it is intended to exhibit and present the most relevant agent platforms and real-world agent-based applications.
Agent architectures and multi-agent platforms • Agents for e-business and e-government • Agents in novel applications, e.g. bioinformatics and the semantic web • Agent to non-agent interoperability, mobile agents, agent-based services • Agent-oriented software engineering • Autonomous robots and robot teams • Coordination, collaboration, and agent communication languages • Interface agents, believable agents and user modelling • Modelling of teams, groups, and organizations • Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies • Semantic of the dynamics of organizational models • Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models • Multi-agent learning and planning • Negotiation, auctions, argumentation, and conflict resolution • Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement • Social simulation and cognitive modelling with agents • Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
Multiagent System Technologies (edited volume, 2004) — Gabriela Lindemann, Jörg Denzinger, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Unland