MATES 2005

 MATES 2004 Program
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MATES 2005 Preliminary Program
Sunday, Sept 11, 2005
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 14:45 Opening of Doctoral Mentoring Programme
14:45 – 16:15 PhD Project Presentations and Discussion (1)
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00 PhD Project Presentations and Discussion (2)

18:00 – ........ Barbecue (jointly with Participants of KI Workshops and Tutorials)

Monday, Sept 12, 2005
9:00 Welcome to MATES 2005 Scientific Program
9:15 – 10:15 MATES Invited Talk I

On the Convergence of Retrieval, Structured Search and Trust in Distributed Systems

Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1a "Workflows and Group Interaction"
10:30 - 11:00

Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi–Agent Platform.

L.Guo, Dave Robertson, Yun–Heh Chen–Burger
11:00 - 11:30
BSCA–P: Privacy Preserving Coalition Formation
Bastian Blankenburg and Matthias Klusch
11:30 - 12:00

Towards Service Coalitions: Coordinating the Commitments in a Workflow

Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns
12:00 - 12:15 Short Break

12:15 – 12:45 Session 1b "Poster Presentations" (6 minutes for each poster advertisement; slides are to be copied on central WinXP presentation machine via USB stick during previous short break)

Collaborative Agent–based Knowledge Support for Empirical and Knowledge–intense Processes

Andrea Freßmann, Kerstin Maximini, Rainer Maximini, Thomas Sauer

A Framework based on Multi–Agent Systems for Information Retrieval through Mobile Devices

Angela Carrillo Ramos, Jérôme Gensel, Marlène Villanova–Oliver, Hervé Martin

CASCOM: Context–Aware Service Co–ordination in Mobile P2P Environments

Heikki Helin, Matthias Klusch, Antonio Lopes, Alberto Fernandez, Michael Schumacher, Heiko Schuldt, Federico Bergenti, Ari Kinnunen

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 MATES Invited Talk II
Semantic Methods for Peer-To-Peer Query Routing
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz, Germany)
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45 Session 2 "Reasoning about Utility"
15:15 - 15:45
Modeling Minority Games with BDI Agents – A Case Study
Wolfgang Renz und Jan Sudeikat
15:45 - 16:15
A Goal Deliberation Strategy for BDI Agent Systems
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, and Winfried Lamersdorf
16:15 - 16:45

Estimating Utility–Functions for Negotiating Agents: Using Conjoint Analysis as an Alternative Approach to Expected Utility Measurement

Marc Becker, Hans Czap, Malte Poppensieker, Alexander Stotz
16:45 – 17:00 Short Break

17:00 – 18:15 Session 3 "The Shorts" (slides are to be copied on central WinXP presentation machine via USB stick during previous short break)

17:00 - 17:15
A Direct Reputation Model for VOs Formation
Arturo Avila–Rosas
17:15 - 17:30
Realising Reusable Agent Behaviours with ALPHA
R. Collier, R. Ross, G. M. P. O'Hare
17:30 - 17:45
Multi–Agent System Specification using TCOZ
Tim Miller and Peter McBurney
17:45 - 18.00
ABACO, Coordination of Autonomous Entities
René Schumann and Jürgen Sauer
18:00 - 18:15

Agent–based simulation for testing control software of high bay warehouses

Cornelia Triebig , Tanja Credner, Peter Fischer, Titus Leskien, Andreas Deppisch, Stefan Landvogt

18:39 - 18:44 Regular bus to the city centre; 10 min walk to the city hall (see map)

19:00 KI & MATES Conference Reception at the Koblenz City Hall (Welcome by the Mayor)

Tuesday, Sept 13, 2005
9:00 – 10:00 MATES/KI Joint Invited Talk
Emergent Semantics in Multi-Agent Systems

Luc Steels (SONY Computer Science Lab Paris and Free University of Brussels (VUB))

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 12:15 Session 4 "The Dynamics of Knowledge"
10:15 - 10:45
Reconciling Agent Ontologies for Web Service Applications

Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Benito Mendoza García, and Michael N. Huhns

10:45 - 11:15
An Agent–Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform
David Sánchez, David Isern, Antonio Moreno
11:15 - 11:45

An Agent Architecture for Ensuring Quality of Service by Dynamic Capability Certification

Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Spittel
11:45 - 12:15

Engineering a Multi Agent Platform with Dynamic Semantic Service Discovery and Invocation Capability

Oguz Dikenelli, Özgür Gümüs, Ali Murat Tiryaki, Geylani Kardas

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 MATES Invited Talk III
Programming Cognitive Agents
John-Jules C. Meyer (U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
14:30 – 15:00 Session 5a "System Demonstration I"
Nominee for the CIA System Innovation Award 2005
14:30 - 14:45

Andrea Freßmann, Kerstin Maximini, Rainer Maximini, Thomas Sauer (Germany)

CAKE - Collaborative Agent-Based Knowledge Support for Empirical and Knowledge-intense Processes

14:45 - 15:00
David Sánchez, David Isern, Antonio Moreno (Spain)
GruSMA: An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15– 15:45 Session 5b "System Demonstration II"
Nominee for the CIA System Innovation Award 2005 :
15:15 - 15:30

Jeen Broekstra, Marc Ehrig, Peter Haase, Frank van Harmelen, Maarten

Menken, Peter Mika, Michal Plechawski, Pawel Pyszlak, Björn Schnizler,

Ronny Siebes, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich (Germany)
Bibster - Semantic P2P Query Routing
15:30 - 15:45
Q&A on demonstrated systems
Final public voting
15:45 – 16:45 Session 6 "Methodology and Simulation"
15:45 - 16:15

Towards a Formal Methodology for Designing Multi–Agent Applications

Amira Regayeg, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, and Mohamed Jmaiel
16:15 - 16:45

LEADSTO: a Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn

Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der Meij, Jan Treur

16:45 – 17:00 Short Break
17:00 – 18:00 Session 7 "Agent Tools and Agent Education"
17:00 - 17:30
Towards a Distributed Tool Platform Based on Mobile Agents
Kolja Lehmann, Lawrence Cabac, Daniel Moldt and Heiko Rölke
17:30 - 18:00

The Distributed Weighing Problem: A Lesson in Cooperation without Communication

Tibor Bosse, Mark Hoogendoorn, and Catholijn M. Jonker

18:00 – 18:15 Closing of MATES w/ Best Paper Award and System Innovation Award Giving; Announcement of CIA 2006