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Subject: Call for Participation First German Conf. on MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES (MATES 2003), Sept. 22-24, Erfurt, Germany Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:23:30 +0200 From: Rainer Unland unlandr@informatik.uni-essen.de To: unlandr@informatik.uni-essen.de
Dear colleague,
we would like to very cordially invite you to participate in the First German Conference on
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES (MATES 2003)
to be held in Erfurt, Germany, September 22 - 24, 2003. It is jointly held with 4th International NetObjectDays 2003.
For further information on this event please visit
http://www.gi-vki.de/MATES03.html
The preliminary program is also attached to this message.
Pls note that early registration ends on August 1, 2003.
We are looking very much forward to welcome you in Erfurt!
Sincerely, Matthias Klusch, Jörg Müller, Michael Schillo, and Huaglory Tianfield (MATES 2003 Co-Chairs)
Preliminary Program of ________________________________________________________________
First German Conference MATES-2003 on
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES
September 22 - 24, 2003 Congress Center, Erfurt, Germany
Co-located with 4th international conference NetObjectDays 2003 ________________________________________________________________
SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 (Monday) ===========================
10:15 - 13:30 Tutorial 1
"Semantic Web Processes" Jorge Cardoso (University of Madeira, Portugal) Amit Sheth (LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, and Semagix, Inc., USA)
14:00 - 18:00 Tutorial 2
"Beyond Objects: Unleashing the Power of Adaptive Agents" James Odell (James Odell Associates, USA)
SEPTEMBER 23, 2003 (Tuesday) ============================
10:15 - 13:30 Tutorial 3
"Interaction Protocol Engineering for Multiagent Systems" Marc-Philippe Huget (Agent ART Group, University of Liverpool, UK) Jean-Luc Koning (Leibniz-Esisar, France)
15:30 - 17:00 Session 1: Engineering Agent-Based Systems
* The AgentComponent Approach: Combining Agents And Components. Richard Krutisch, Philipp Meier, and Martin Wirsing (LMU München, Germany)
* From Simulated to Real Environments: How to use SeSAm for software development. Franziska Klügl, Rainer Herrler and Christoph Oechslein (U Würzburg, Germany)
* Indicators for Self-Diagnosis: Communication-based Performance Measures. Michael Rovatsos, Michael Schillo, Klaus Fischer, and Gerhard Weiss (TU München and DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:45 Session 2: Systems and Applications (1)
* The AEP Toolkit for Agent Design and Simulation. Joscha Bach and Ronnie Vuine (HU Berlin, Germany)
* On Programming Information Agent Systems - An Integrated Hotel Reservation Service as Case Study. Yun Ding, Heiner Litz, Rainer Malaka, and Dennis Pfisterer (European Media Lab Heidelberg, Germany)
* Applying Agents for Engineering of Industrial Automation Systems. Thomas Wagner (U Stuttgart, Germany)
18:45 - 20:00 Annual Meeting of the German Computer Society Special Interest Group on Distributed AI
September 24, 2003 (Wednesday) ==============================
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote
Agent UML: What is it, and why do I care? James J. Odell (James Odell Associates, USA)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:45 Session 3: Systems and Applications (2)
* SimMarket: Multiagent-based Customer Simulation and Decision Support for Category Management. Arndt Schwaiger and Björn Stahmer (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
* Implementing Heterogeneous Agents in Dynamic Environments: A Case Study in RoboCupRescue. Jafar Habibi, Mazda Ahmadi, Ali Nouri, Mayssam Sayyadian, and Mayssam M. Nevisi (SUT Teheran, Iran)
* Multi-Agent Approach to the Design of an E-Medicine System. Jiang Tian and Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
11:45 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30 Session 4: Models and Architectures
* Model for Simultaneous Actions in Situated Multi-agent Systems. Danny Weyns and Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven)
* Handling Sequences of Belief Change in a Multi-Agent Context Laurent Perrussel (U Toulouse, France)
* From the Specification of Multiagent Systems by Statecharts to their Formal Analysis by Model Checking: Towards Safety-Critical Applications. Frieder Stolzenburg and Toshiaki Arai (HS Harz and Mitsubishi Funaishikawa)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:15 Invited Talk
The Semantic Web: Methods, Tools, and Applications. Rudi Studer (U Karlsruhe, Germany)
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 5: Issues of Inter-operability
* An Ontology for Production Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing. Lars Mönch and Marcel Stehli (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
* Ontology-based Capability Management for Distributed Problem Solving in the Manufacturing Domain. Ingo Timm and Peer-Oliver Woelk (TU Ilmenau and U Hannover, Germany)
* Platform-Independent Mechanism for Mobile Agents Communication Using Publish-Subscribe Event Based Systems. Amir Padovitz, Seng Loke, and Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, USA)
17:00 - 17:15 Coffee break
17:15 - 18:45 Session 6: Issues of Collaboration and Negotiation
* Multiagent Matching Algorithms With and Without Coach. Frieder Stolzenburg, Jan Murray, and Karsten Sturm (HS Harz and U Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
* Improving evolutionary learning of cooperative behavior by including accountability of strategy components. Jörg Denzinger and Sean Ennis (U Calgary, Canada)
* The C-IPS Agent Architecture for Modeling Negotiating Social Agents. Diemo Urbig, Dagmar Monett Diaz, and Kay Schröter (HU Berlin, Germany)
18:45 End of Conference
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