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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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Third German Conference on
Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 05)
September 11 - 13, 2005
Koblenz, Germany
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http://www.mates2005.de/
Incorporating the
9th Intl Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2005)
Co-located with
28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005)
Co-sponsored by
Siemens, Germany
Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
German Computer Society (GI)
European Coordination Action for Agent-Based Computing (AgentLink III)
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: APRIL 1, 2005
Notification of authors: June 3, 2005
Camera-ready papers: June 20, 2005
Conference: September 11-13, 2005
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AIMS & SCOPE
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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 third time the German special interest group on Distributed
Artificial Intelligence jointly 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 two
successful predecessors in 2003 and 2004, MATES 2005 is co-located with
the 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(KI 2005, http://ki2005.uni-koblenz.de/).
In addition, the MATES 2005 conference is incorporating the
9th international workshop on cooperative information agents (CIA 2005,
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/IWS-CIA-home.html). Thus, the topics of
interest of MATES 2005 also cover the domain of information agents
and agent-based information systems for the Internet, Web, and semantic
Web. We solicit papers that report on recent advances in the domain of
intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in general, and information
agents and agent-based information systems in particular. We also
specifically encourage elaborated vision and challenge papers that lay
out mid-term and long-term directions for these domains.
TOPICS
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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Coordination and conflict resolution
* Negotiation and argumentation
* Artificial social systems: conventions, norms, institutions;
trust and reputation
* Hybrid human and agent societies
* Advanced theories of collaboration:
Modelling and formation of teams, coalitions, groups, and
organizations
* Multi-agent planning and scheduling
* Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
* Complex systems and their management
* Agent and multi-agent architectures
* Agent communication languages
* Agent-oriented software engineering
* Multi-agent platforms and tools
* Architectures, prototypes, and fielded systems
of information agents for the Web, and semantic Web
* Agent-based recommender systems
* Agent-Based distributed knowledge discovery and data mining
* Agent-based semantic Web service discovery and composition planning
* Agent-based service matchmaking and brokering in the semantic Web
* Agent-based distributed ontology management
* Mobile information agents
* Human-agent interaction for (systems of) information agents
* Interface agents, believable agents and user modelling
* Information agents for/applied to digital cities.
* Advanced, personalized 3-d visualizations of information spaces.
* Agent-based Web usage mining
* Deployed agent-based business applications
* Agents and Grid Computing
* Agents and Autonomic Computing
* Agents and Pervasive Computing
* Agents and Quantum Computing
* Agents in novel application domains, e.g.,
Bioinformatics, and health care
* Autonomous robots and robot teams
* Practical aspects of programming agent systems:
Robustness, scalability and performance measurement
* Multi-agent simulation and modelling
AWARDS
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* Best Paper Award
MATES and CIA 2005 jointly issue a "MATES/CIA 2005 Best Paper Award".
This award is sponsored by Siemens Corporation, Germany.
* System Award
CIA 2005 issues a "CIA 2005 System Innovation Award"
to acknowledge and stimulate development of highly innovative
systems of intelligent information agents.
Past winners of the award:
http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/IWS-CIA-home.html#awards
This award is sponsored by Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland.
DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM
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MATES 2005 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. For further information,
pls contact Torsten Eymann [log in to unmask]
STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
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MATES 2005 provides limited financial support to a limited number of
students who are co-authors of accepted papers to give their presentation
at the MATES 2005 conference.
To apply for one MATES 2005 student travel grant, please send following
information via email to [log in to unmask] until July 18, 2005, 6pm Berlin
* Full name, address, and affiliation
* Full name and email address of PhD/Master thesis advisor,
or fax student ID card copy to +49-681-302-2235
attn. MATES 2005, Dr. Matthias Klusch
* Title of accepted paper to present at MATES 2005 conference
* Amount of financial support needed (not exceeding 250 euros)
* Justification of claim (rough travel cost breakdown)
PROCEEDINGS
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The proceedings of MATES 2005 will be published as volume 3550
in the Springer series of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence
(LNAI). These proceedings are considered as joint proceedings with
CIA 2005.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
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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>.
For those not using the Springer LNCS style files: The paper must be
formatted in A4 size using 10 point Times. (If Times is not available,
please use one of the similar fonts widely used in phototypesetting.)
Printing area should be 12.2 x 19.3 cm, and the interline distance
should be arranged in such a way that some 42 to 45 lines occur on a
full-text page.
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.
You may submit your paper using the online submission system at
http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/conftool/
If you are expereincing any problem with online submission, pls
contact us for help and advice.
In case you submit a postscript file, please check whether it is
printable on a standard postscript-level-2 printer in prior!
ORGANISATION
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General Co-Chairs:
Matthias Klusch (DFKI Saarbruecken, D)
Michael Huhns (U South Carolina, USA)
Program Co-Chairs:
Torsten Eymann (U Bayreuth, D)
Franziska Kluegl (U Wuerzburg, D)
Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, D)
Steering Committee:
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, D)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, D)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, D)
Jörg Müller (Siemens AG, D)
Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, D)
Gerhard Weiss (TU Munich, D)
Program Committee:
Karl Aberer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Elisabeth Andre, U Augsburg, D
Bernhard Bauer, U Augsburg, D
Wolfgang Benn, TU Chemnitz, D
Monique Calisti, Whitestein AG, Zürich, CH
Cristiano Castelfranchi , CNR, Italy
Thomas Christaller, Fraunhofer AIS, D
Rosaria Conte, NRC Rome, IT
Stephen Cranefield, U Otago, New Zealand
Mehdi Dastani, U Utrecht, The Netherlands
Yves Demazeau, LEIBNIZ/IMAG, France
Jörg Denziger, U Calgary, Canada
Klaus Fischer, DFKI Saarbrücken, D
Ana Garcia Serrano, TU Madrid, Spain
Fausto Giunchiglia, U Trento, Italy
Marie-Pierre Gleizes, IRIT Toulouse, France
Rune Gustavsson, Blekinge TH, Sweden
Heikki Helin, TeliaSonera Helsinki, Finland
Heinrich Hussmann, U Munich, D
Toru Ishida, U Kyoto, Japan
Stefan Kirn, U Hohenheim, D
Ryszard Kowalczyk, TU Swinburne, Australia
Daniel Kudenko, U York, UK
Jürgen Lind, Agentlab, München, D
Gabriela Lindemann, HU Berlin, D
Jiming Liu, Hongkong Baptist U, China
Stefano Lodi, U Bologna, Italy
Beatriz Lopez, U Girona, Spain
Jörg Müller, Siemens, D
Heinz-Jürgen Müller, Berufsakademie Mannheim, D
Werner Nutt, Heriot-Watt U Edinburgh, UK
Andrea Omicini, U Bologna, Italy
Sascha Ossowski, U Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain
Michal Pechoucek, TU Prague, Czech Republic
Paolo Petta, OEFAI Vienna, Austria
Stefan Poslad , Queen Mary U London, UK
Frank Puppe, U Würzburg, D
Alois Reitbauer, ProFACTOR, Austria
Franz Rothlauf, U Mannheim, D
Marie-Christine Rousset, U Paris-Sud, France
Heiko Schuldt, UMIT Innsbruck, Austria
Onn Shehory, IBM Research, Israel
John Shepherdson, British Telecom, UK
Steffen Staab, U Koblenz, D
Rudi Studer, U Karlsruhe, D
Ingo Timm, TZI U Bremen, D
Robert Tolksdorf , TU Berlin, D
Lin Uhrmacher, U Rostock, D
Rainer Unland, U Duisburg-Essen, D
Thomas Uthmann , Johannes-Gutenberg U Mainz, D
Wiebe Van der Hoek, U Liverpool, UK
Laszlo Zsolt Varga, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Daniel Veit, U Karlsruhe, D
Ning Zhong, Maebashi IT, Japan
CONTACT
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Torsten Eymann
Chair of Information Systems (BWL VII)
University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Tel. +49 (921) 552807
torsten.eymann<AT>uni-bayreuth.de
Franziska Kluegl
University of Wuerzburg
Department for Artificial Intelligence and Applied Computer Science
97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
kluegl<AT>informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Winfried Lamersdorf
Distributed and Information Systems Group (VSIS)
Computer Science Department, Hamburg University
22527 Hamburg, Germany
lamersd<AT>informatik.uni-hamburg.de
