MATES 2011

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Ninth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies
October 6-7, 2011
Berlin, Germany
MATES 2011
MATES-2011 PROGRAM: OVERVIEW
Tuesday, October 4
11:00 - 13:30
German Academic Exchange Service: Presentations (Joint Event with KI/INFORMATIK Conferences)

14:00 - 15:30
Doctoral Consortium: Session 1 (Joint Event with KI Conference)

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Doctoral Consortium: Session 2 (Joint Event with KI Conference)

17:30 - 18:30
Doctoral Consortium: Panel (Joint Event with KI Conference)
Thursday, October 6
08:50 - 09:00
Opening
09:00 - 10:30
Invited Talk: Olivier Boissier
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1: Development and Engineering
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30
Session 2: Teamwork
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Invited Talk: Sven Koenig (Joint Event with KI Conference)
Friday, October 7
09:00 - 10:30
Invited Talk: Hartmut Schmeck
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Session 3: Learning and Adaptation
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4: Decision Making
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Session 5: Simulation and Optimization
17:30 - 18:00
Best Paper Award and Closing
CONFERENCE PROGRAM: BY SESSION

Thursday, October 6, 11:00-12:30, Development and Engineering

Chair: Rainer Unland

Agent Factory: A Framework for Prototyping Heterogeneous AOP Languages

Sean Russell, Howell Jordan, G.M.P. O'Hare and Rem Collier
An Infrastructure for Enterprise Cloud Applications
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr and Kai Jander

Agentification of Objects in Heterogeneous Dynamic Environments (Short Paper)

Sebastian Bader

Gateway Architecture for Web-Based Agent Services (Short Paper)

Tobias Betz, Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus and Lawrence Cabac
Thursday, October 6, 14:00-15:30, Teamwork
Chair: Ingo Timm
Value of incomplete information in mobile target allocation
Marin Lujak, Stefano Giordani and Sascha Ossowski
Hybrid Multi-agent Planning
Mohamed Elkawkagy and Susanne Biundo
HAI - A Human Agent Interface for JIAC (Short Paper)

Sebastian Ahrndt, Marco Luetzenberger, Axel Heßler and Sahin Albayrak

Representing Emotion and Mood States for Virtual Agents (Short Paper)

Luis Peña, Jose-Maria Peña and Sascha Ossowski
Friday, October 7, 11:00-12:30, Learning and Adaptation
Chair: Lars Braubach

On the Power of Global Reward Signals in Reinforcement Learning

Thomas Kemmerich and Hans Kleine Büning

Learning Dynamic Adaptation Strategies in Agent-based Traffic Simulation Experiments

Andreas Lattner, Jörg Dallmeyer and Ingo Timm

An Artificial Market for Efficient Allocation of Road Transport Networks (Short Paper)

Matteo Vasirani and Sascha Ossowski

Self-Organization of Roles Based on Multilateral Negotiation for Task Allocation (Short Paper)

Florin Leon
Friday, October 7, 14:00-15:30, Decision Making
Chair: Matteo Vasirani

Monotonic Mixing of Decision Strategies for Agent-based Bargaining

Jan Richter, Matthias Klusch and Ryszard Kowalczyk

Motivating Agents in Unreliable Environments: A Computational Model

Patrick Krümpelmann, Matthias Thimm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner and Regina Fritsch

Social Welfare for Automatic Innovation
Juan A. Garcia-Pardo and Carlos Carrascosa
Friday, October 7, 16:00-17:30, Simulation and Optimization
Chair: Matthias Klusch
An Agent-Based Simulation of Payment Behavior in E-Commerce
Axel Hummel, Heiko Kern and Arndt Döhler
Agent-Based Container Terminal Optimisation

Michael Winikoff, Hanno-Felix Wagner, Thomas Young, Stephen Cranefield, Roger Jarquin, Guannan Li, Brent Martin and Rainer Unland

Dynamic coalition adaptation for efficient agent-based virtual power plants

Radu-Casian Mihailescu, Matteo Vasirani and Sascha Ossowski
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: BY SESSION
Tuesday, October 4, 14:00-15:30, Session 1
Outline of Doctoral work by
Michael Baumann (University of Paderborn)
Radu-Casian Mihailescu (Rey Juan Carlos University)
René Leistikow (University of Rostock)
Felix Rabe (Bielefeld University)
Michael Siebers (Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg)
Tuesday, October 4, 16:00-17:30, Session 2
Outline of Doctoral work by
Jan Ole Berndt (TZI, Bremen)
Kristina Yordanova (University of Rostock)
Nico Potyka (FernUniversität Hagen)
Andreas Scheuermann (University of Hohenheim)
Individual Discussions: Mentees and Mentors
Tuesday, October 4, 17:30-18:30, Panel Session

Discussion with Bernhard Nebel (University of Freiburg), Ingo Timm (University of Trier), Franz Baader (TU Dresden), and Ulrich Frank (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Tuesday, October 4, 11:00-13:30, DAAD Session
Presentations by
Dr. Christian Schäfer
Alexander Rabe

University Rey Juan Carlos | Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA)