+++ Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings +++ First CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************* Third German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES 05) September 11 - 13, 2005 Koblenz, Germany ********************************************* http://www.mates2005.de/ Incorporating the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2005) Co-located With 28th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2005) September 12 - 14, 2005 ------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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 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. An information agent is a special kind of intelligent agent that has access to one or multiple, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed data and information, pro-actively searches for and maintains relevant information on behalf of its human user, or other agents preferably just-in-time. One key challenge of developing agent-based information systems is to balance the autonomy of networked data, information and knowledge sources with the potential payoff of leveraging them by the appropriate use of intelligent information agents. 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 ====== 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 ====== MATES and CIA 2005 jointly issue a "MATES/CIA 2005 Best Paper Award". In addition, CIA 2005 issues a "CIA 2005 System Innovation Award" to acknowledge and stimulate development of highly innovative systems of intelligent information agents. DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM ========================== 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. PROCEEDINGS =========== 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 ================== 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 via E-Mail to submission@mates2005.de (strongly preferred). Please send zipped PS, PDF or WinWord files only! In case you submit a postscript file please check whether it is printable on a standard postscript-level-2 printer. ORGANISATION ============ 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 (Universität Duisburg-Essen, D) Gerhard Weiss (TU München, D) Program Committee: Karl Aberer, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Elisabeth Andre, U Augsburg, D Bernhard Bauer, U Augsburg, D Wolfgang Benn, TU Chemnitz, D 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, TU Dresden, D Toru Ishida, U Kyoto, Japan Stefan Kirn, U Hohenheim, D Ryszard Kowalczyk, TU Swinburne, Australia Daniel Kudenko, U York, UK 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 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 ======= 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