Multiagent System Technologies: Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11-13, 2005. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Zoran Despotovic (auth.), Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, Michael N. Huhns (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3550 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
On the Convergence of Structured Search, Information Retrieval and Trust Management in Distributed Systems....Pages 1-14
Semantic Methods for P2P Query Routing....Pages 15-26
Programming Cognitive Agents....Pages 27-34
Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-agent Platform....Pages 35-46
BSCA-P: Privacy Preserving Coalition Formation....Pages 47-58
Towards Service Coalitions: Coordinating the Commitments in a Workflow....Pages 59-70
Modeling Minority Games with BDI Agents – A Case Study....Pages 71-81
A Goal Deliberation Strategy for BDI Agent Systems....Pages 82-93
Estimating Utility-Functions for Negotiating Agents: Using Conjoint Analysis as an Alternative Approach to Expected Utility Measurement....Pages 94-105
Reconciling Agent Ontologies for Web Service Applications....Pages 106-117
An Agent-Based Knowledge Acquisition Platform....Pages 118-129
An Agent Architecture for Ensuring Quality of Service by Dynamic Capability Certification....Pages 130-140
Engineering a Multi Agent Platform with Dynamic Semantic Service Discovery and Invocation Capability....Pages 141-152
Towards a Formal Methodology for Designing Multi-agent Applications....Pages 153-164
LEADSTO: A Language and Environment for Analysis of Dynamics by SimulaTiOn....Pages 165-178
Towards a Distributed Tool Platform Based on Mobile Agents....Pages 179-190
The Distributed Weighing Problem: A Lesson in Cooperation Without Communication....Pages 191-203
An Adaptive Reputation Model for VOs....Pages 204-209
Realising Reusable Agent Behaviours with ALPHA....Pages 210-215
Multi-agent System Specification Using TCOZ....Pages 216-221
ABACO, Coordination of Autonomous Entities....Pages 222-228
Agent-Based Simulation for Testing Control Software of High Bay Warehouses....Pages 229-234
Collaborative Agent-Based Knowledge Support for Empirical and Knowledge-Intense Processes....Pages 235-236
Experiments in Neo-computation Based on Emergent Programming....Pages 237-239
A Framework Based on Multi-agent Systems for Information Retrieval Through Mobile Devices....Pages 240-241
CASCOM: Context-Aware Service Co-ordination in Mobile P2P Environments....Pages 242-243
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Programming Techniques; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing