Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 2010)

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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 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 eighth 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 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 place from September 21 to 24, 2010 in Karlsruhe. The participants of MATES 2010 will also have full access 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 computing 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 in 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 systems.  Additionally, we encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and application. 

Topics of interest for MATES 2010 include, but are not limited to: 

• 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
• Agents for 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 modelling and interface agents
• Embodied conversational actors 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, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
• Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational models
• Semantics of the dynamics of organizational models
• Standards 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 with established researchers in
their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing 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 instructions 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 exceed 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 PDF. All papers must be written in English. Submissions not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. Papers are to submit by the EasyChair system. 
Please follow the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2010

Important Dates

 Submission Deadline:         9. 4. 2010 
 Notification of Acceptance:  28. 5. 2010
 Camera Ready Copy:           11. 6. 2010
 Conference Date:           21. 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)
Jˆrg P. M¸ller (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 Klügl
Gabriela Lindemann
Stefano Lodi
Beatriz López
Viviana Mascardi
Mirjam Minor
Daniel Moldt
Joerg Mueller
Peter Novák
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: +49 5323 727180
Fax: +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