MATES 2007

 MATES 2007
September 24 - 26, 2007 in Leipzig, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers:
April 15, 2007
Notification of authors:
June 11, 2007
Camera-ready papers:
July 2, 2007
Conference:
September 24-26, 2007
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2007-07-20 : The Conference Program has been published.

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 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.

DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM

MATES 2007 will include a doctoral mentoring program, intended for PhD
students. This program will provide an opportunity for students to
interact closely with researchers established in their fields, to
receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their
careers. The program will consist of the following components:

to match each student with an established researcher who will act as a
mentor.

to allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly
audience of other students, as well as mentors.

to provide students with contacts and networking opportunities.

The doctoral mentoring program consists mainly of a one day doctoral
symposium scheduled for September 24, 2007.
MATES issues a "MATES 2007 Best Paper Award".

PROCEEDINGS

Paolo Petta, Jörg P. Müller,
Matthias Klusch, Michael Georgeff (Eds.).
Multiagent System
Technologies. 5th German Conference, MATES 2007.
Leipzig,
Germany, EU, September 24-26, 2007.
Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence Volume 4687.
Springer. 2007.

FLYER

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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MATES 2007
September 24 - 26, 2007 in Leipzig, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers:
April 15, 2007
Notification of authors:
June 11, 2007
Camera-ready papers:
July 2, 2007
Conference:
September 24-26, 2007
Do you want to learn more
about Leipzig? Click here
Last Update: 27.06.2007

Topics of interest for MATES'07 include, but are not limited to:

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

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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MATES 2007
September 24 - 26, 2007 in Leipzig, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers:
April 15, 2007
Notification of authors:
June 11, 2007
Camera-ready papers:
July 2, 2007
Conference:
September 24-26, 2007
Do you want to learn more
about Leipzig? Click here
Last Update: 27.06.2007
General Chairs:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Mike Georgeff (Monash University, Australia)
Program Co-Chairs:
Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Paolo Petta (MUW, Vienna, Austria)
Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Franziska Klügl (U Würzburg, Germany)
Steering Committee:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (University Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (SCCH Hagenberg, Austria)

CONTACT

Prof. Dr. Jörg P. Müller
Clausthal University of Technology
D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Phone: +49 (5323) 72-7141
Fax: +49 (5323) 72-7149
Email: joerg.mueller [at] tu-clausthal [dot] de
URL: http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de
Dr. Paolo Petta
Institut für Medizinische Kybernetik
und Artificial Intelligence
Zentrum für Hirnforschung
Medizinische Universität Wien
Freyung 6/II, A 1010 Vienna
Email: paolo [dot] petta [at] MeduniWien [dot] ac [dot] at
Fax: +43-1-5336112-77
Tel: +43-1-5336112-12

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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MATES 2007
September 24 - 26, 2007 in Leipzig, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers:
April 15, 2007
Notification of authors:
June 11, 2007
Camera-ready papers:
July 2, 2007
Conference:
September 24-26, 2007
Do you want to learn more
about Leipzig? Click here
Last Update: 27.06.2007
Program Committee:
Elisabeth Andre (U Augsburg, Germany)
Bernhard Bauer (U Augsburg, Germany)
Federico Bergenti (U Parma, Italy)
Michael Berger (Siemens AG, Germany)
Lars Braubach (U Hamburg , Germany)
Gerhard Brewka (U Leipzig, Germany)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (U Siena / CNR, Italy)
Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)
Hans Czap (U Trier, Germany)
Mehdi Dastani (U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Jörg Denzinger (U Calgary , Canada)
Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Torsten Eymann (U Bayreuth, Germany)
Klaus Fischer (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Ana Garcia Serrano (U Madrid, Spain)
Paolo Giorgini (U Trento , Italy)
Rune Gustavsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Heikki Helin (TeliaSonera, Finland)
Heinrich Hussmann (LMU München , Germany)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Franziska Klügl-Frohnmeyer (U Würzburg, Germany)
Ryszard Kowalczyk (U Swinburne, Australia)
Daniel Kudenko (U York, UK)
Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany)
Jürgen Lind (iteratec , Germany)
Gabriela Lindemann (HU Berlin, Germany)
Jiming Liu (Baptist University, Hong-Kong)
Stefano Lodi (U Bologna, Italy)
Beatriz Lopez (U Girona, Spain)
Heinz-Jürgen Müller (BA Mannheim , Germany)
Volker Nissen (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
James Odell (Agentis Software, USA)
Andrea Omicini (U Bologna , Italy)
Sascha Ossowski (U Madrid, Spain)
Stefan Poslad (QMW, UK)
Wolfgang Renz (HAW Hamburg , Germany)
Von-Wun Soo (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz, Germany)
Ingo Timm (U Frankfurt, Germany)
Robert Tolksdorf (FU Berlin, Germany)
Adelinde Uhrmacher (U Rostock, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Wiebe Van der Hoek (U Liverpool, UK)
Laszlo Zsolt Varga (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary)
Danny Weyns (K.U. Leuven, The Netherlands)
Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Michael Wooldridge (U Liverpool, UK)
Jean-Pierre George (U Paul Sabatier, France)
Georg Weichhart (Profactor, Austria)