MATES 2007
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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 fifth time the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence in cooperation 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 four successful predecessors in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, MATES 2007 takes place from 24th to 26th of September 2007 in Leipzig under the umbrella of the SABRE event.
We solicit papers that report on recent advances in the domain of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general but specifically encourage elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for these domains in the context of the above mentioned topics.
Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning • Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations • Agents and autonomic computing • Agent and multi-agent architectures • Agents and peer-to-peer computing • Agents and pervasive computing • Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition • Agent communication languages • Agents for e-business and e-government • Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and architectures • Agent to non-agent interoperability • Agents in novel applications, e.g. bioinformatics and the semantic Web • Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice • Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation • Autonomous robots and robot teams • Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and hybrid societies • Complex systems and their management • Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution • Deployed agent-based business applications • Hybrid human and agent societies • User modeling and interface agents • Embodied conversational agents and believable agents • Mobile agents • Model-driven design of multi-agent systems • Multi-agent planning and scheduling • Multi-agent platforms and tools • Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents • Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, scalability and performance measurement • Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement • Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models • Semantic of the dynamics of organizational models • Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
Multiagent System Technologies (edited volume, 2007) — Paolo Petta, Jörg P. Müller, Matthias Klusch, Michael Georgeff