M A T E S  2 0 1 0
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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

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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