16-20 Sep 2013
Koblenz, Germany
================================================================= == CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================= == == MATES 2013 == == 11th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies and == 4th Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy (JAWS) == == September 16-20, 2013 == Koblenz, Germany == == http://www.mates2013.de == ================================================================= The MATES conference series aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains. In 2013 the MATES conference is accompanied by the fourth installment of the Joint Agent Workshops in Synergy (JAWS 2013), a series of international workshops on different issues of agent technology: - Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation (ABC:MI 2013) - Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&M 2013) - Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems (SEN-MAS 2013) - Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems and Agents (CyPhySysA 2013) This European joint event on agent technologies (MATES+JAWS) is co-located with - the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence(KI 2013) and - the 43th Symposium of the German Computer Science Association GI (Informatik 2013). Moreover, the event will also host a doctoral mentoring to support young researchers of this broad field in their PhD studies. Topics of Interest ================== MATES 2013 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Multiagent platform and tools * Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of multiagent systems * Agent communication languages * Autonomous robots and robot teams * Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions,and organizations * Multiagent systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation * Adaptive agents and multiagent learning * Multiagent planning and scheduling * Agent-based information retrieval * Agents and P2P computing * Agent-based service coordination (discovery, composition, negotiation, execution) * Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications * Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling * Hybrid human and agent societies * Semantic Web (services) and agents * Agents for the Social Web * Agents for the Internet of Services * Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing * Agents for cloud computing * Mobile agents * Standards for agents and multiagent systems * Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy). Invited Speakers ================ In keeping with its tradition, MATES 2013 also offers several invited keynotes which are delivered by highly renowned scientists on relevant topics of the broad area of intelligent agent technology. For details see: http://www.mates2013.de/keynotes/ Important Dates =============== Deadline for Submission: May 1, 2013 Notification of Authors: June 7, 2013 Camera-Ready Papers: June 28, 2013 Workshops: September 16/17, 2013 Conference: September 18-20, 2013 Paper Submission and Publication ================================ Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS style. Over-length submissions will be rejected without review. Submissions are expected to report on new research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the field. In particular, submitted research must be unpublished and not under review in any other conference or journal (submissions that violate this requirement will be regarded as self-plagiarism). For the doctoral mentoring track, the submitted paper must not exceed 4 pages. The abstract should outline the PhD project and should contain an introduction to the research field, a description of related works and a description of the research (done and/or planned). The abstract has to be written without co-authors. The proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series. Please follow the guidelines on the website of the conference: http://www.mates2013.de. Conference Chairs ================= Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany) Marcin Paprzycki (Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences) Matthias Thimm (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Doctoral Mentoring Chair ======================== Lars Braubach (University of Hamburg, Germany) For more information on the MATES conference series, please visit:http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/mates-series