MATES 2017

 MATES 2017 - 15th German Conference on Multiagent System
Technologies
MATES 2017
15th German Conference on Multiagent System
Technologies
in conjunction with
2017
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2017)

August 23 - 26, 2017
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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Conference Program

The MATES 2017 conference program will comprise various regular
paper sessions, invited keynote talks, a PhD mentoring program
including a special panel discussion, as well as social events.

Schedule
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-12:00 Doctoral Mentoring
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 Doctoral Mentoring (individual
discussions)
15:30-17:00 Panel
Discussion on Reproducibility: A Problem for AI Reasearch?
18:00-21:00 Pre-Conference Reception
Thursday, August 24, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Inauguration
09:30-10:30 Keynote 1 (Amith Sheth)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 2 (Christine Preisach)
12:00-13:00 Keynote 3 (Cristiano
Castelfranchi)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
break
14:30-16:00 Paper Session 1:
Knowledge Representation & Learning (Chair: N.N.)
Lixin Tao
Extending OWL with Custom Relations for Knowledge-Driven
Intelligent Agents
Thomas Gabel, Alaa Tharwat and Eicke
Godehardt
Eavesdropping Opponent Agent Communication Using Deep
Learning
Theocharis Kravaris, George Vouros, Christos
Spatharis, Konstantinos Blekas, Georgios Chalkiadakis and Jose
Manuel Cordero Garcia
Learning Policies for Resolving Demand-Capacity Imbalances
during Pre-tactical Air Traffic Management
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 City Walk
18:00-22:00 Welcome Reception
Friday, August 25, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Paper Session 2: Modeling & Analysis
of Personalities, Motivations, Opinions (Chair: Paolo Petta)
Sebastian Ahrndt and Sahin Albayrak
Learning about Human Personalities
Stephanie C. Rodermund, Fabian Lorig, Jan Ole
Berndt and Ingo J. Timm
An Agent Architecture for Simulating Communication Dynamics
in Social Media
Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti
Two Analytic Models of Compromise in Multi-Agent Systems
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 4 (Raj Reddy)
12:00-13:00 Keynote 5 (Frank Leymann)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:00 Paper Session 3: Agent-based
Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 & Distributed Scheduling (Chair: Jan Ole
Berndt)
Arndt Lüder, Jacek Zawisza and Alexander
Becker
Advancing the Performance of Complex Manufacturing Systems
Through Agent-based Production Control
Frank Nedwed, Ingo Zinnikus, Maxat Nukhayev,
Matthias Klusch and Luca Mazzola
shopST: Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling with Agent-Based
Simulated Trading
Georg Weichhart and Alexander Hämmerle
Lagrangian Relaxation realised in the NgMPPS Multi Actor
Architecture
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Paper Session 4: Demo Session (Chair:
N.N.)
N.N.
TBA
N.N.
TBA
18:00-22:00 Conference Gala
Saturday, August 26, 2017
08:00-17:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Paper Session 5: Agent Teamwork,
Collaboration & Grouping Behavior (Chair: Rainer Unland)
Masoud Barati and Richard St-Denis
Team Formation through Preference-Based Behavior
Composition
Oudom Kem, Balbo Flavien and Antoine
Zimmermann
Collaborative Search for Multi-goal Pathfinding in
Ubiquitous Environments
Joshua Brown and Terry Bossomaier
Flock Stability in the Vicsek Model
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Keynote 6 (Matthias Klusch)
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Paper Session 6: Agent Deliberation,
Learning & Decision-Making (Chair: N.N.)
Wulfrano-Arturo Luna-Ramírez and Maria Fasli
Plan Acquisition in a BDI Agent Framework Through
Intentional Learning
João Guilherme Faccin, Ingrid Nunes and Ana
Bazzan
Understanding the Behaviour of Learning-based BDI Agents in
the Braess' Paradox
Sajad Ghorbani, R. Rahmani and Rainer Unland
Multi-Agent Autonomous Decision Making in Smart
Micro-grids' Energy Management: A Decentralized Approach
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Paper Session 7: Applications of
Multiagent Technology (Chair: Georg Weichhart)
Stefania Monica and Federico Bergenti
Indoor Localization of JADE Agents without a Dedicated
Infrastructure
Zohreh Akbari and Rainer Unland
A Holonic Multi-Agent System Approach to Differential
Diagnosis
16:30-17:00 Conference Closing