Multiagent System Technologies

Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11-13, 2005. Proceedings

  • Torsten Eymann
  • Franziska Klügl
  • Winfried Lamersdorf
  • Matthias Klusch
  • Michael N. Huhns
Conference proceedings MATES 2005

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3550)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 3550)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Invited Contributions

    1. On the Convergence of Structured Search, Information Retrieval and Trust Management in Distributed Systems
      Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Zoran Despotovic
      Pages 1-14
    2. Semantic Methods for P2P Query Routing
      Alexander Löser, Steffen Staab, Christoph Tempich
      Pages 15-26
    3. Programming Cognitive Agents
      John-Jules Ch. Meyer
      Pages 27-34

  3. Workflows and Group Interaction

    1. Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-agent Platform
      Li Guo, Dave Robertson, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger
      Pages 35-46
    2. BSCA-P: Privacy Preserving Coalition Formation
      Bastian Blankenburg, Matthias Klusch
      Pages 47-58
    3. Towards Service Coalitions: Coordinating the Commitments in a Workflow
      Jiangbo Dang, Michael N. Huhns
      Pages 59-70

  4. Reasoning about Utility

    1. Modeling Minority Games with BDI Agents – A Case Study
      Wolfgang Renz, Jan Sudeikat
      Pages 71-81
    2. A Goal Deliberation Strategy for BDI Agent Systems
      Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdorf
      Pages 82-93
    3. Estimating Utility-Functions for Negotiating Agents: Using Conjoint Analysis as an Alternative Approach to Expected Utility Measurement
      Marc Becker, Hans Czap, Malte Poppensieker, Alexander Stotz
      Pages 94-105

  5. The Dynamics of Knowledge

    1. Reconciling Agent Ontologies for Web Service Applications
      Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Benito Mendoza García, Michael N. Huhns
      Pages 106-117
    2. An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform
      David Sánchez, David Isern, Antonio Moreno
      Pages 118-129
    3. An Agent Architecture for Ensuring Quality of Service by Dynamic Capability Certification
      Thorsten Scholz, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Spittel
      Pages 130-140
    4. Engineering a Multi Agent Platform with Dynamic Semantic Service Discovery and Invocation Capability
      Oguz Dikenelli, Özgür Gümüs, Ali Murat Tiryaki, Geylani Kardas
      Pages 141-152

  6. Methodology and Simulation

    1. Towards a Formal Methodology for Designing Multi-agent Applications
      Amira Regayeg, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Mohamed Jmaiel
      Pages 153-164
    2. LEADSTO: A Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn
      Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Lourens van der Meij, Jan Treur
      Pages 165-178

  7. Agent Tools and Agent Education

    1. Towards a Distributed Tool Platform Based on Mobile Agents
      Kolja Lehmann, Lawrence Cabac, Daniel Moldt, Heiko Rölke
      Pages 179-190
    2. The Distributed Weighing Problem: A Lesson in Cooperation Without Communication
      Tibor Bosse, Mark Hoogendoorn, Catholijn M. Jonker
      Pages 191-203

  8. Short Papers

    1. An Adaptive Reputation Model for VOs
      Arturo Avila-Rosas
      Pages 204-209
    2. Realising Reusable Agent Behaviours with ALPHA
      Rem Collier, Robert Ross, Gregory M. P. O’Hare
      Pages 210-215

About these proceedings

Introduction

After two successful MATES conferences in Erfurt 2003 and 2004, the 3rd G- man conference on Multi-agent System Technologies (MATES 2005) took place in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2005, and was co-located with the 28th German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2005). Building onotheragent-relatedeventsinGermanyinthepast,andorganized by the GI German Special Interest Group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence, the MATES conference series aims at promoting the theory and applications of agentsandmultiagentsystems.Incorporatingthe9thInternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2005), the topics of interest for MATES 2005 also covered the ?elds of intelligent information agents and systems for the Internet and the (Semantic) Web. As in recent years, MATES 2005 provided a distinguished, lively and int- disciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers of agent technology, to present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Accordingly, the topics of MATES 2005 covered the whole range from the theory to applications of age- and multiagent technology. The technical program included a total of 24 sci- ti?c talks, and demonstrations of selected running agent systems, and both the MATES 2005 Best Paper and the CIA 2005 System Innovation awards.

Keywords

MAS Routing Simulation agent systems agent-based simulation agent-based systems autonom computer-assisted surgery formal method formal methods knowledge knowledge discovery multi-agent system multi-agent systems ontology

Editors and affiliations

  • Torsten Eymann
    • 1
  • Franziska Klügl
    • 2
  • Winfried Lamersdorf
    • 3
  • Matthias Klusch
    • 4
  • Michael N. Huhns
    • 5
  1. 1.Chair of Information Systems ManagementUniversity of BayreuthGermany
  2. 2.Department for Artificial IntelligenceUniversity of Würzburg, Am HublandWürzburg
  3. 3.Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science DepartmentUniversity of HamburgHamburgGermany
  4. 4.German Research Center for Artificial IntelligenceSaarbrueckenGermany
  5. 5.Department of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of South CarolinaColumbiaUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/11550648
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-540-28740-7
  • Online ISBN 978-3-540-28741-4
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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