Dear colleague,
due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline for
The Fifth German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies
(MATES 2007) has been extended until
April 15, 2007.
For your convenience, please find the call for papers attached.
Best regards
Joerg P. Mueller and Paolo Petta
MATES 2007 PC Co-Chairs
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* Call for Papers *** Call for Papers *** Call for Papers *
* MATES 2007 *** MATES 2007 *** MATES 2007 *
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The Fifth German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies
MATES 2007
September 24-26, 2007, Leipzig, Germany
http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/mates07/
Papers submissions due: April 15, 2007 (new!)
Co-located with SABRE 2007
http://www.sabre-conference.com
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of papers: April 15, 2007 (new!)
Notification of authors: May 28, 2007
Camera-ready papers: June 15, 2007
INTRODUCTION
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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 fifth time the German special
interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence in
cooperation with the steering committee of MATES organises this
international conference in order to promote theory and
application of agents and multi-agent systems. Building on the
four successful predecessors in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006,
MATES 2007 takes place from 24th to 26th of September 2007 in
Leipzig, Germany in the context of SABRE 2007 (www.sabre-conference.com).
SABRE 2007 (Software Agents and Services for Business, Research, and
E-Sciences) provides an umbrella for a set of conferences---including
CEEMAS (International Central and Eastern European Conference on
Multi-Agent Systems), GSEM (International Conference on Grid Service
Engineering and Management), MAGS*BIOMED 2007 (International Workshop
on Multi-Agent and Grid Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology,
and Bioinformatics), POSE (Process-Oriented Software Engineering), and
SOAS (International Conference on Self-Organization and Adaptation of
Multi-Agent and Grid Systems)---providing ample coverage of agent
technologies, autonomic computing, self-*, and process modelling,
as well as the intersections of these research areas.
EXHIBITION & COURSES
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As integral part of the technical program, an exhibition at the conference
venue will feature showcases of a variety of tools for the development,
and prototypes of a broad range of practical applications of agent and
multiagent technology. Introductory and advanced courses offered by
experts in the field will focus particularly on practical aspects of
agent technology, including the engineering and effective use of software
agents and multi-agent systems in industrial applications in different
domains.
Those who wish to present a course should specify the topic, contents,
and length of their course.
AWARDS
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MATES issues a "MATES 2007 Best Paper Award".
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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.
Topics of interest for MATES 2007 include, but are not limited to:
- Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
- Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation
of teams, coalitions, groups, and organisations
- Agents and autonomic computing
- Agent and multi-agent architectures
- Agents and peer-to-peer computing
- Agents and pervasive computing
- 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, e.g. bioinformatics and the
Semantic Web
- 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 agents 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 organisational models
- Semantics of the dynamics of organisational models
- Standards for agents and multi-agent systems
DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM
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MATES 2007 will include a doctoral mentoring program, 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
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The proceedings of MATES 2007 will appear in the Springer-Verlag series,
"Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence" (LNAI).
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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The only acceptable document format is PDF.
All papers must be written in English.
Submissions should be made through the conference management site of the
SABRE
conference, which will be available soon, and where you will need to
register
as an author:
http://www.sabre-conference.com
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. 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.
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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General Chairs:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Mike Georgeff (Monash University, Australia)
Program Co-Chairs:
Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Paolo Petta (Medical U of Vienna, Austria)
Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Franziska Klügl (U Würzburg, Germany)
Steering Committee:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (University Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (SCCH Hagenberg, Austria)
CONTACTS
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Matthias Klusch (Tutorials & Courses)
DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Tel: +49-681-302-5297
Fax: +49-681-302-2235
Email: klusch at dfki.de
Franziska Klügl (Doctoral Consortium)
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Tel: +49-931-888-6742
Fax: +49-931-888-6732
Email: kluegl at informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Jörg P. Müller (Exhibits)
Technische Universität Clausthal
Institut für Informatik
Zimmer 201
Julius-Albert-Str. 4
D-38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Deutschland (EU)
Tel: +49 5323 727 141
Fax: +49 5323 727 149
Email: joerg.mueller at tu-clausthal.de
Paolo Petta (Papers Submissions)
Institut für Medizinische Kybernetik und Artificial Intelligence
Zentrum für Hirnforschung
Medizinische Universität Wien
Freyung 6/II
A 1010 Wien, Österreich (EU)
Tel: +43 1 5336112 12
Fax: +43 1 5336112 77
Email: paolo.petta at MeduniWien.ac.at
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