MATES 2008

 MATES 2008
September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE):
May 9, 2008
Notification of authors:
Juni 12, 2008
Camera-ready papers:
July 3, 2008
Conference:
Sept. 23-26, 2008
Co-located with the
31st German Conference in Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008)
Last Update: 23.1.2008

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 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.

DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM

MATES 2008 will include a doctoral mentoring program, aimed at PhD students at advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers.

Applications to this program should comprise a short Curriculum Vitae and a
description of the current work of the PhD candidate of about 5 pages.
Please, send your application due to the 29th of August 2008 directly to the Doctoral Mentoring Program Chair
Gabriela Lindemann: lindeman@informatik.hu-berlin.de
MATES will issue a "MATES 2008 Best Paper Award".

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of MATES 2008 is published in
Bergmann, Ralph; Lindemann, Gabriela; Kirn, Stefan; Pechoucek, Michal (Eds.). Multiagent System Technologies. 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 5244, Springer, 2008.

Conference Brochure
The Conference Brochure
is now available. It includes the detailed schedule of the MATES2008 and the KI2008 conference program.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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MATES 2008
September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE):
May 9, 2008
Notification of authors:
Juni 12, 2008
Camera-ready papers:
July 3, 2008
Conference:
Sept. 23-26, 2008
Co-located with the
31st German Conference in Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008)
Last Update: 14.12.2007

Topics of interest of MATES 2008 include all aspects of agent-oriented computing and agent technologies. Moreover, the principles and methods of agent-oriented computing in the context of service-oriented architectures (SOA) are of interest for the MATES community. Furthermore, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new emerging area for the application for agent-oriented computing, including, for example, agent-based mobile environments or sensor networks.

We solicit research papers that report on recent advances in the area of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general. Also papers reporting on the successful application of agent technologies in any kind of domain are very welcome. Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application.

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

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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MATES 2008
September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE):
May 9, 2008
Notification of authors:
Juni 12, 2008
Camera-ready papers:
July 3, 2008
Conference:
Sept. 23-26, 2008
Co-located with the
31st German Conference in Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008)
Last Update: 7.2.2008
General Chairs:
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Michal Pechoucek (CTU Prag, CZ)
Program Co-Chairs:
Ralph Bergmann (U Trier, Germany)
Gabriela Lindemann (HU Berlin, 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)
Local Arrangements
Stefan Zinsmeister (DFKI, Germany)
Email: zinsmeis [at] dfki.uni-kl.de

CONTACT

Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann
Universität Trier
Wirtschaftsinformatik II
D-54286 Trier
Deutschland
Tel: +49-651-2013876
Fax: +49-651-2013396
Email: bergmann [at] uni-trier.de
Dr. Gabriela Lindemann-v.Trzebiatowski
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Informatik
Rudower Chaussee 25
D-10099 Berlin
Deutschland
Tel. +49-30-20933170
Fax. +49-30-20933168
Email: lindeman[at]informatik.hu-berlin.de

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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MATES 2008
September 23 - 26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Important Dates:
Submission of papers (EXTENDED DEADLINE):
May 9, 2008
Notification of authors:
Juni 12, 2008
Camera-ready papers:
July 3, 2008
Conference:
Sept. 23-26, 2008
Co-located with the
31st German Conference in Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008)
Last Update: 23.1.2008
Program Committee:

The following distinguished researchers and practitioners are members of the program committee of MATES 08.

Klaus-Dieter Althoff (U Hildesheim, Germany)
Bernhard Bauer (U Augsburg, Germany)
Federico Bergenti (U Parma, Italy)
Michael Berger (Siemens AG, Germany)
Ralph Bergmann (U Trier, Germany)
Lars Braubach (U Hamburg , Germany)
Gerhard Brewka (U Leipzig, Germany)
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland)
Mehdi Dastani (U Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Jörg Denzinger (U Calgary , Canada)
Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Torsten Eymann (U Bayreuth, Germany)
Jean-Pierre George (U Paul Sabatier, France)
Paolo Giorgini (U Trento , Italy)
Heikki Helin (TeliaSonera, Finland)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, 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)
Stefano Lodi (U Bologna, Italy)
Beatriz Lopez (U Girona, Spain)
Mirjam Minor (U Trier, Germany)
Heinz-Jürgen Müller (BA Mannheim , Germany)
Jörg Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Volker Nissen (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
Andrea Omicini (U Bologna , Italy)
Michal Pechoucek (CTU Prag, CZ)
Wolfgang Renz (HAW Hamburg , Germany)
Abdel Badeh Salem (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
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)
Georg Weichhart (Profactor, Austria)