MATES 2010

Eighth German Conference on Multi Agents System Technologies

Co-located with the GI-Conference 2010 on September 27-29, 2010 in Leipzig, Germany

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Call for Papers

MATES 2010 - Eighth German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies

September 27 - 29, 2010 in Leipzig, Germany
https://alg.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010

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) 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. For more information see: https://alg.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010/topics

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".

SPONSORS

Like in 2009, the German GI interest group on Communication and Distributed Systems (KuVS), http://www.kuvs.de, is now again a co-sponsor of the MATES 2010.

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=mates10.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission Deadline: April 30, 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: May 28, 2010
• Camera Ready Copy: June 11, 2010
• Conference Date: September 27, 2010

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

Program Co-Chairs:

• Jürgen Dix (TU Clausthal, Germany)
• Cees Witteveen (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

Steering Committee:

• MATTHIAS KLUSCH (DFKI, Germany)
• WINFRIED LAMERSDORF (U Hamburg, Germany)
• JÖRG P. MÜLLER (TU Clausthal, Germany)
• PAOLO PETTA (U Vienna, Austria)
• RAINER UNLAND (U Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• GERHARD WEISS (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Local Arrangements:

• To be announced...

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

More than 40 distinguished researchers and practitioners have confirmed their participation in the program committee of MATES 2010.
See: https://alg.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/mates2010/committees

CONTACTS

Jürgen 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
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 15 2782521
Fax: +31 15 2786632
Email: c.witteveen(at)tudelft.nl