October 6 - 7, 2011 in Berlin, Germany

AIMS & SCOPE
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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 ninth 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 2010, MATES 2011
will be co-located with "Informatik 2011", the 41st Annual Conference
of the 'Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.' (GI), and "KI 2011", the
34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. It will take
place from October 6 to 7, 2011 in Berlin. The participants of MATES
2011 will also have full access to the concurrently running program of
the "Informatik 2011" and the "KI 2011" conference. The MATES series
has been ranked by the Computing Research & Education initiative as a
"CORE B" conference.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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MATES 2011 welcomes contributions from the field 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 2011 encourages especially submissions from
recent and emerging areas of interest such as Autonomic Computing,
Self-organisation, and Agreement Technologies. Additionally, we
encourage the submission of elaborated vision and challenge papers
that discuss mid-term and long-term directions for research and
application.
The topics of interest for MATES-2011 include, but are not limited to,
the following:
* Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of
  teams, coalitions, groups, and organizations
* Commitment, delegation, responsibility, and obligations in
  artificial and hybrid societies
* Artificial social systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust
  and reputation
* Coordination, negotiation, argumentation, and conflict resolution
* Multi-Agent Systems as complex systems, management of/with self-
  organization
* Adaptive agents and multi-agent learning
* Agents and autonomic computing
* Agent and multi-agent architectures
* Multi-agent planning and scheduling
* Agent communication and interaction languages
* Agent-oriented Software Engineering, Model-driven design of multi-
  agent systems
* Programming Languages for Multi-Agent Systems, Multi-agent platforms
  and tools
* Multi-Agent System specification and verification
* Practical aspects of programming agent systems: Robustness, fault
  tolerance, scalability and performance measurement
* Agent to non-agent interoperability
* Hybrid human and agent societies
* User modelling and interface agents, embodied conversational actors
  and believable agents
* Agent-based service discovery, matchmaking, brokering, and
  composition
* Multi-agent simulation and modelling with agents
* Application of agent technologies in industrial practice
* (Novel) agent / multi-agent system applications


DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAMME
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MATES 2011 and KI 2011 will include a joint 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
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The proceedings of MATES 2011 will appear in the Springer-Verlag
series, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).


AWARDS
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MATES will issue a "MATES 2011 Best Paper Award".


SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Paper submissions to MATES-2011 will be handled using the EasyChair
system at this link: www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2011.

Submissions must comply with the following requirements:
* For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the
instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page:

Submissions not conforming to the above instructions may be rejected
without review.  
Please notice that the submission of a paper should be regarded as an
undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the
authors will attend the conference to present the work.



IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts due: April 11, 2011
Full papers due: April 15, 2011
Doctoral Mentoring Applications: July 1, 2011
Notification: July 15, 2011
Camera-ready submission: July 31, 2011
Early registration: July 31, 2011
MATES 2011 conference: October 6-7, 2011


CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
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Conference Chairs:
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Franziska Klügl (U Örebro, Sweden)
Sascha Ossowski (U Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)

Doctoral Consortium Chair (KI/MATES):
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René Schumann (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Steering Committee:
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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)

Programme Committee (to be completed):
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Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, U Hildesheim, Germany
Bernhard Bauer, U Augsburg, Germany
Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil
Holger Billhardt, U Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Vicent Botti, TU Valencia, Spain
Lars Braubach, U Hamburg, Germany
Frances Brazier, TU Delft, Netherlands
Jürgen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany
Torsten Eymann, U Bayreuth, Germany
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Maria Ganzha, Elblag U of Humanities and Economy, Poland
Paolo Giorgini, U Trento, Italy
Christian Guttmann, EBTIC, UAE
Koen Hindriks, TU Delft, Netherlands
Wiebe van der Hoek, U Liverpool, UK
Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven, Belgium
Wojtek Jamroga, U Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Stefan Kirn, U Hohenheim, Germany
Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
Daniel Kudenko, U York, UK
Stefano Lodi, U Bologna, Italy
Beatriz Lopez, U Girona, Spain
Simon Miles, King's College London, UK
Daniel Moldt, U Hamburg, Germany
Pavlos Moraitis, U Paris Descartes, France
Jörg Müller, TU Clausthal, Germany
Eugenio Oliveira, U Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, U Bologna, Italy
Julian Padget, U Bath, UK
Ana Paiva, U Lisbon, Portugal
Marcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Michal Pechoucek, Czech TU, Czech Republic
Paolo Petta, OFAI, Austria
Alexander Pokahr, U Hamburg, Germany
Marko Schorlemmer, CSIC, Spain
Frank Schweitzer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Kuldar Taveter, TU Tallinn, Estonia
Ingo Timm, U Trier, Germany
Denis Trcek, U Ljubliana, Slovenia
Adelinde Uhrmacher, U Rostock, Germany
Rainer Unland, U Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lászlo Z. Varga, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
Cees Witteveen, TU Delft, Netherlands