MATES 2005

 MATES 2005
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AIMS & SCOPE

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.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the MATES 2005 conference will be published as volume
number 3550 in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI). These proceedings are considered as joint
proceedings with CIA 2005.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF BEST PAPERS

It is intended to publish selected best papers of this conference in
a special issue of an international journal.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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MATES 2004 Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest for MATES'05 include, but are not limited to:

- 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

- Information agents for/applied to digital cities

- 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

SUBMISSION DETAILS
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MATES 2004 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 should not exceed 12 pages.
All papers must be written in English and submitted either in postscript or PDF format.

Papers that have been accepted or are under review by other conferences, workshops, or
journals are not eligible for submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted pr presented in part to
a forum outside of agent technology. Submissions not conforming to the above
requirements may be rejected without review.
You may submit your paper
- using the online submission tool
(strongly preferred)
or
- via E-Mail to submission@mates2005.de
please send zipped files, only PDF or PS
or

- via postal Mail: please send 5 hard copies (unstapled pages)
of your contribution to
Torsten Eymann
University of Bayreuth
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Universitätsstraße 30
Gebäude B9
95440 Bayreuth, Deutschland
Submission of papers: April 18,
2005 (!New: Extended Deadline)
Notification of authors: June 3, 2005
Camera-ready papers: June 20, 2005
Proceedings
The proceedings of MATES 05 will be published as a volume
in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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MATES 2004 Conference Officials
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General Co-Chairs:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, D)
Michael Huhns (U South Carolina, USA)
Program Co-Chairs:
Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, D)
Franziska Klügl(U Würzburg, D)
Thorsten Eymann (U Bayreuth, D)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, D)
Stefan Kirn (TU Ilmenau, D)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, D)
Jörg Müller (Siemens AG, D)
Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, D)
Gerhard Weiss (TU Munich, D)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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MATES 2004 Program Committee
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Karl Aberer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Elisabeth Andre, U Augsburg, D
Bernhard Bauer, U Augsburg, D
Wolfgang Benn, TU Chemnitz, D
Monique Calisti, Whitestein AG, Zürich, CH
Cristiano Castelfranchi , CNR, Italy
Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer AIS, D
Rosaria Conte, NRC Rome, IT
Stephen Cranefield, U Otago, New Zealand
Mehdi Dastani, U Utrecht, The Netherlands
Yves Demazeau, LEIBNIZ/IMAG, France
Jörg Denziger, U Calgary, Canada
Klaus Fischer, DFKI Saarbrücken, D
Ana Garcia Serrano, TU Madrid, Spain
Fausto Giunchiglia, U Trento, Italy
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT Toulouse, France
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge TH, Sweden
Heikki Helin, TeliaSonera Helsinki, Finland
Heinrich Hussmann, U Munich, D
Toru Ishida, U Kyoto, Japan
Stefan Kirn, U Hohenheim, D
Ryszard Kowalczyk, TU Swinburne, Australia
Daniel Kudenko, U York, UK
Jürgen Lind, Agentlab, München, D
Gabriela Lindemann, HU Berlin, D
Jiming Liu, Hongkong Baptist U, China
Stefano Lodi, U Bologna, Italy
Beatriz Lopez, U Girona, Spain
Jörg Müller, Siemens, D
Heinz-Jürgen Müller, Berufsakademie Mannheim, D
Werner Nutt, Heriot-Watt U Edinburgh, UK
Andrea Omicini, U Bologna, Italy
Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Michal Pechoucek, TU Prague, Czech Republic
Paolo Petta, Medical University of Vienna & OFAI, Austria
Stefan Poslad , Queen Mary U London, UK
Frank Puppe, U Würzburg, D
Alois Reitbauer, ProFACTOR, Austria
Franz Rothlauf, U Mannheim, D
Marie-Christine Rousset, U Paris-Sud, France
Heiko Schuldt, UMIT Innsbruck, Austria
Onn Shehory, IBM Research, Israel
John Shepherdson, British Telecom, UK
Steffen Staab, U Koblenz, D
Rudi Studer, U Karlsruhe, D
Ingo Timm, TZI U Bremen, D
Robert Tolksdorf , TU Berlin, D
Lin Uhrmacher, U Rostock, D
Rainer Unland, U Duisburg-Essen, D
Thomas Uthmann , Johannes-Gutenberg U Mainz, D
Wiebe Van der Hoek, U Liverpool, UK
Laszlo Zsolt Varga, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Daniel Veit, U Karlsruhe, D
Ning Zhong, Maebashi IT, Japan