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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 ================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================== 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) 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 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
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