MATES 2005
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The German conference on Multi-Agent System TEchnologieS (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users and developers, to present and discuss latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference aims to promote theory and application and covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies.
For the third 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 two successful predecessors in 2003 and 2004, the MATES 05 will be collocated with the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2005
In addition, the MATES 2005 conference is incorporating the 9th international workshop on cooperative information agents CIA 2005 . Therefore, the topics of interest of MATES 2005 include the domain of intelligent information agents, and agent based information systems for the Internet, Web and semantic Web.
We solicit papers that report on recent advances in the domain of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general, and information agents and agent-based information systems in particular. We also specifically encourage vision and challenge papers that lay out mid-term and long-term directions for these domains.
Coordination and conflict resolution • Negotiation and argumentation • Artificial social systems: conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation • Hybrid human and agent societies • Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations • Multi-agent planning and scheduling • Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning • Complex systems and their management • Agent and multi-agent architectures • Agent communication languages • Agent-oriented software engineering • Multi-agent platforms and tools • Deployed agent-based bussiness applications • Architectures, prototypes, and fielded systems of information agents • Agents in novel application domains, e.g. Bioinformatics and Healthcare • Autonomous robots and robot teams • Interface agents, believable agents and user modelling • Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, scalability and performance measurement • Multi-Agent simulation and modelling • Recommender systems • Agent-based distributed knowledge discovery and data mining • Agent-based semantic Web service discovery • Agent-based semantic Web service composition planning • Agent-based semantic Web service negotiation • Secure multi-agent systems • Agent-based distributed ontology management • Mobile information agents • Human-agent interaction for (systems of) information agents • Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information spaces • Agent-based Web usage mining • Agents and Quantum Computing • Agents and Grid Computing • Agents and Autonomic Computing • Agents and Pervasive Computing
Multiagent System Technologies (curatela, 2005) — Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, Michael N. Huhns