MATES 2008
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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 covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to promote its theory and applications.
For the sixth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering committee of MATES and thereby continues this very successful track of events. MATES 2008 is co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008) and will take place from September 23 to 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern. The participants of MATES 2008 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the KI 2008 conference.
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 and ambient intelligence • 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 • 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 • 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, 2008) — Ralph Bergmann, Gabriela Lindemann, Stefan Kirn, Michal Pěchouček