EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: APRIL 30

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C A L L  F O R  P A P E R S   MATES 2010
Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies

September 27 - 29, 2010 in Leipzig, Germany
http://www.alg.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010
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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 40st Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft  
fur Informatik e.V. (GI-conference 2010) and will take place from  
September 27 to 29, 2010 in Leipzig. The participants of MATES 2010  
will also have full access to the concurrently running program of the  
GI 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, 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:     		30.4.2010
	Notification of Acceptance: 	28.5.2010
	Camera Ready Copy:          	         11.6.2010
	Conference Date:         		27.9.2010


CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

Program Co-Chairs:
Juergen Dix  (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Doctoral Consortium Chair:
Ingo Timm  (U Frankfurt, Germany)

Steering Committee:
  Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany)
Joerg P. Mueller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Paolo Petta (U Vienna, Austria)
Rainer Unland (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)


Program Committee:
Klaus-Dieter Althoff  (U Hildesheim, Germany)
Federico Bergenti  (U Parma, Italy)
Ralph Bergmann  (U Trier, Germany)
Vicent Botti  (Universidad Polit&eacute cnica de Valencia, Spain)
Lars Braubach  (U Hamburg, Germany)
Longbing Cao  (TU Sydney, Australia)
Torsten Eymann  (U Bayreuth, Germany)
Klaus Fischer  (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany)
Maria Ganzha  (Elblag University of Humanities and Economy, Poland)
Paolo Giorgini  (U Trento, Italy)
Christian Guttmann  (Monash University, Australia)
Koen Hindriks  (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Benjamin Hirsch  (TU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn  (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Franziska Kl&uuml gl  (U
rebro, Sweden)
Gabriela Lindemann  (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefano Lodi  (U Bologna, Italy)
Beatriz L&oacute pez  (U Girona, Spain)
Viviana Mascardi  (U Genova, Italy)
Mirjam Minor  (U Trier, Germany)
Daniel Moldt  (U Hamburg, Germany)
Joerg Mueller  (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Peter Nov‡k (Czech Technical University,  Czech Republic)
Andrea Omicini  (U Bologna, Italy)
Sascha Ossowski  (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Marcin Paprzycki  (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Alexander Pokahr  (U Hamburg, Germany)
Alessandro Ricci  (U Bologna, Italy)
Abdel-Badeeh Salem  (Ain Shams University, Egypt)
Amal Seghrouchni  (U Paris VI, France)
Ingo Timm  (U Frankfurt, Germany)
Rainer Unland  (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Wiebe van der Hoek (U Liverpool, UK)
L‡szl—  Zsolt Varga  (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary)


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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Prof. Cees Witteveen
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics
and Computer Science                 	web           :  www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~witt/
Delft University of Technology       	e-mail	:  [log in to unmask]
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