21-23 Sep 2010
Karlsruhe, Germany
M A T E S 2 0 1 0
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Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies
September 21 - 23, 2010,
Karslruhe, Germany
http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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AIMS & SCOPE
The German Conference on Multi-Agent system Technologies (MATES) provides a
n 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-ag
ent systems. The conference
covers the whole range of agent- and multi-agent technologies and aims to p
romote its theory and
applications. For the eighth time, the German special interest group on Dis
tributed Artificial Intelligence
organizes this international conference in cooperation with the steering co
mmittee of MATES and
thereby continues this successful track of events.
Building on the successful predecessors from 2003 to 2009, MATES 2010 will
be co-located with the
33st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010) and will take p
lace from September 21 to
24, 2010 in Karlsruhe. The participants of MATES 2010 will also have full a
ccess to the concurrently
running program of the KI 2010 conference.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest of MATES 2010 include all aspects of agent-oriented comp
uting and agent
technologies.
We solicit both basic as well as applied research papers 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 i
n any kind of domain are
very welcome.
MATES 2010 encourages especially submissions from recent and emerging areas
of interest such as
autonomic computing, distributed coordination and robust multi-agent system
s. Additionally, we
encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that dis
cuss mid-term and long-
term directions for research and application.
Topics of interest for MATES 2010 include, but are not limited to:
=09Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
=09Advanced theories of collaboration:
Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and organizat
ions
=09Agents and autonomic computing
=09Agent and multi-agent architectures
=09Agents and peer-to-peer computing
=09Agents and pervasive computing
=09Agents for Ambient Intelligence
=09Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
=09Agent communication languages
=09Agents for e-business and e-government
=09Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and arc
hitectures
=09Agent to non-agent interoperability
=09Agents in novel applications
=09Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
=09Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and
reputation
=09Autonomous robots and robot teams
=09Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial a
nd hybrid societies
=09Complex systems and their management
=09Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
=09Deployed agent-based business applications
=09Hybrid human and agent societies
=09User modelling and interface agents
=09Embodied conversational actors and believable agents
=09Mobile agents
=09Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
=09Multi-agent planning and scheduling
=09Multi-agent platforms and tools
=09Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modelling with agents
=09Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault toler
ance, scalability and
performance measurement
=09Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational
models
=09Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
=09Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM
MATES 2010 will include a doctoral mentoring program, chaired by Ingo Timm,
aimed at PhD students
at advanced stages of their research.
This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely w
ith established researchers in
their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managi
ng their careers.
PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of MATES 2010 will appear in the Springer-Verlag series,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
AWARDS
MATES will issue a "MATES 2010 Best Paper Award".
SUBMISSION DETAILS
For the preparation of papers to be submitted, please follow the instructio
ns for authors available at
the Springer LNCS Web page:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The length of each paper, including figures and references, should not exce
ed 12 pages. Papers that
have been accepted or are under review by other conferences or journals are
not eligible for
submission. However, we encourage interdisciplinary contributions submitted
or presented in part to a
forum outside of agent technology. The only acceptable document format is P
DF. All papers must be
written in English. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements ma
y be rejected without
review. Papers are to submit by the EasyChair system.
Please follow the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2
010
Important Dates
=09Submission Deadline: =09=09 9. 4. 2010
=09Notification of Acceptance: =0928. 5. 2010
=09Camera Ready Copy: =09 11. 6. 2010
=09Conference Date: =09=0921. 9. 2010
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
Program Co-Chairs:
Juergen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
Steering Committee:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Joerg P. Mueller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
Program Committee:
Klaus-Dieter Althoff
Federico Bergenti
Ralph Bergmann
Vicent Botti
Lars Braubach
Longbing Cao
Torsten Eymann
Klaus Fischer
Maria Ganzha
Paolo Giorgini
Christian Guttmann
Koen Hindriks
Benjamin Hirsch
Wiebe van der Hoek
Stefan Kirn
Franziska Klgl
Gabriela Lindemann
Stefano Lodi
Beatriz Lpez
Viviana Mascardi
Mirjam Minor
Daniel Moldt
Joerg Mueller
Peter Novk
Andrea Omicini
Sascha Ossowski
Marcin Paprzycki
Alexander Pokahr
Alessandro Ricci
Abdel-Badeeh Salem
Amal Seghrouchni
Ingo Timm
Rainer Unland
Doctoral Consortium:
Ingo Timm (U. Frankfurt, Germany)
CONTACTS
Juergen Dix
Clausthal University of Technology
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Germany
Tel:=09+49 5323 727180
Fax:=09+49 5323 727189
Email dix"at"tu-clausthal.de
Cees Witteveen
Delft University of Technology
Dept. of Software Technology
Tel. +31-15-2782521
Fax. +31-15-2786632
Email: C.Witteveen"at"tudelft.nl