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Due to numerous requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for
MATES 2006. The new deadline will however be hard.
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Fourth German Conference on
Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 06)
September 19 - 21, 2006 in Erfurt, Germany
http://www.dfki.de/MATES
Co-located with Net.ObjectDays 2006; September 18 - 21, 2006
http://www.netobjectdays.org/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: April 21, 2006 (extended)
Notification of authors: May 22, 2006
Camera-ready papers: June 18, 2006
Conference: September 19-21, 2006
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
aims to
promote theory and application and covers the whole range of
agent- and
multi-agent technologies.
For the fourth time the German special interest group on
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with the steering committee of
MATES
organizes this international conference in order to promote
theory and
application of agents and multi-agent systems. Building on the
three
successful predecessors in 2003, 2004, and 2005, MATES 2006 takes
place
from19th to 21st of September 2006 in Erfurt in the context
of the
Net.ObjectDays 2006. The Net.ObjectDays (NODe
2006,
http://http://www.netobjectdays.org/de/index.html) provide an umbrella
for a
set of conferences - such as GSEM (International Conference on Grid
Service
Engineering and Management) and SOAS (International
Conference on
Self-Organization and Adaptation of Multi-agent and Grid Systems) - that
cover
aspects of almost any area of agent technologies, autonomic
computing,
aspect-driven and model-driven architectures, and component-based
programming
as well as the intersections of these research areas.
Topics of interest of MATES 2006 are all aspects of agent-oriented
computing
and agent technologies. However, while service-oriented
architectures in
general become more and more popular, agent technologies need
to be
re-considered and discussed in the context of up-coming trends in the
design
of such architectures. Web service technologies and the semantic Web
are the
most obvious examples of this development. But also up-coming
trends in
general software design like the model-driven architecture and
workflow
patterns for service composition need to be discussed. In this context
agents
operate in a heterogeneous and possibly geographically
distributed
environment. A key challenge of developing agent-based systems in this
context
is to search for services that meet the agent's objectives and compose
them in
a flexible manner. In the composition of these services complex
patterns of
interaction might be involved and an intuitive and easy to read and
understand
representation of these patterns is highly desirable.
We solicit papers that report on recent advances in the domain of
intelligent
agents and multi-agent systems in general but specifically
encourage
elaborated vision and challenge papers that discuss mid-term and
long-term
directions for these domains in the context of the above mentioned topics.
TOPICS
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Agent and multi-agent architectures
* Multi-agent platforms and tools
* Agent-oriented software engineering
* Model-driven design of multi-agent systems
* Agent technologies in the context of service-oriented computing and
architectures
* Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and composition
* Complex systems and their management
* Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness,
scalability and
performance measurement
* Agent to non-agent interoperability
* Advanced theories of collaboration: Modeling and formation of teams,
coalitions, groups, and organizations
* Agent communication languages
* Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
* Hybrid human and agent societies
* User modeling and interface agents
* Embodied conversational agents and believable agents
* Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in artificial and
hybrid societies
* Semantic of the dynamics of organizational models
* Roles and structures, adaptive learning and cognition in organizational
models
* Multi-agent planning and scheduling
* Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
* Robustness, fault tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
* Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and
reputation
* Multi-agent (social) simulation and (cognitive) modeling with agents
* Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
* Agents and peer-to-peer computing
* Agents and autonomic computing
* Agents and pervasive computing
* Mobile agents
* Autonomous robots and robot teams
* Agents for e-business and e-government
* Deployed agent-based business applications
* Application of agent-technologies in industrial practice
* Agents in novel applications, e.g. bioinformatics and the semantic Web
AWARDS
MATES issues a "MATES 2006 Best Paper Award".
DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM
MATES 2006 intends to include a doctoral mentoring program, aimed
at PhD
students in 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 2006 are planned to be published in the
Springer
series "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" (LNAI).
SUBMISSION DETAILS
For 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. All
papers must
be written in English and submitted either in postscript or PDF format.
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. Submissions not conforming to the
above
requirements may be rejected without review.
All submissions must be sent electronically to
mates06@tzi.de
Acceptable formats are PDF and PostScript.
ORGANIZATION
General Co-Chairs:
Elisabeth Andre (University Augsburg, D)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi IT, J)
Program Co-Chairs:
Klaus Fischer (DFKI Saarbrücken, D)
Ingo Timm (TZI Bremen, D)
Steering Committee:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, D)
Stefan Kirn (University Hohenheim, D)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, D)
Jörg Müller (Siemens AG, D)
Rainer Unland (University Duisburg-Essen, D)
Gerhard Weiss (TU München, D)
Program Committee:
Bernhard Bauer, U Augsburg, D
Michael Beetz, U Bonn, D
Wolfgang Benn, TU Chemnitz, D
Federico Bergenti, U Parma, I
Hans-Dieter Burkhard, HU Berlin, D
Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, CH
Cristiano Castelfranchi , CNR, I
Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer AIS, D
Rosaria Conte, NRC Rome, IT
Stephen Cranefield, U Otago, NZ
Hans Czap, U Trier, D
Mehdi Dastani, U Utrecht, NL
Yves Demazeau, LEIBNIZ/IMAG, F
Jörg Denziger, U Calgary, CDN
Torsten Eymann, U Bayreuth, D
Ana Garcia Serrano, TU Madrid, E
Fausto Giunchiglia, U Trento, I
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT Toulouse, F
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge TH, S
Heikki Helin, TeliaSonera Helsinki, FIN
Heinrich Hussmann, TU Dresden, D
Toru Ishida, U Kyoto, J
Catholijn Jonker, U Nijmengen, NL
Hillol Kargupta, UMBC Baltimore, USA
Stefan Kirn, U Hohenheim, D
Franziska Klügl-Frohmeyer, U Würzburg, D
Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, D
Ryszard Kowalczyk, TU Swinburne, A
Daniel Kudenko, U York, UK
Karl Kurbel, EU Viadrina Frankfurt, D
Winfried Lamersdorf, U Hamburg, D
Jürgen Lind, iteratec, D
Gabriela Lindemann, HU Berlin, D
Jiming Liu, Hongkong Baptist U, TJ
Stefano Lodi, U Bologna, I
Beatriz Lopez, U Girona, E
Thomas Malsch, TU Hamburg-Harburg, D
Heinz-Jürgen Müller, Berufsakademie Mannheim, D
Jörg Müller, Siemens, D
Werner Nutt, Heriot-Watt U Edinburgh, UK
James Odell, Agentis Software, USA
Andrea Omicini, U Bologna, I
Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, E
Paolo Petta, OEFAI Vienna, A
Stefan Poslad , Queen Mary U London, UK
Frank Puppe, U Würzburg, D
Alois Reitbauer, ProFACTOR, A
Wolfgang Renz, HAW Hamburg, D
Heiko Schuldt, UMIT Innsbruck, A
Onn Shehory, IBM Research, IT
John Shepherdson, British Telecom, UK
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua U, TW
Steffen Staab, U Koblenz, D
Robert Tolksdorf, FU Berlin, D
Adelinde Uhrmacher, U Rostock, D
Rainer Unland, U Duisburg-Essen, D
Wiebe Van der Hoek, U Liverpool, UK
Laszlo Zsolt Varga, MTA SZTAKI, H
Daniel Veit, U Karlsruhe, D
CONTACT
Klaus Fischer
German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH)
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Phone: +49 (681) 302-3917
Fax : +49 (681) 302-2235
Email: Klaus.Fischer@dfki.de
Ingo Timm
University of Bremen
Center for Computing Technologies (TZI)
Intelligent Systems
D-28334 Bremen
Phone: +49 (421) 218 - 81 76
Fax : +49 (421) 218 - 71 96
Email: itimm@acm.org
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Unland
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems (ICB)
Practical Computer Science, especially Data
Management Systems and Knowledge Representation
Schuetzenbahn 70
45117 Essen, Germany
Tel.: (+49) 201-183 3421
Skype: unlandr
Fax: (+49) 201-183 4460
email: Rainer.Unland@icb.uni-due.de
WWW: http://www.cs.uni-essen.de/dawis/
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