MATES 2014 - The 12th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies

The MATES conference series aims at the promotion of and the cross-fertilization between theory and application of intelligent agents and multiagent systems. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and members of business and industry to present and discuss latest advances in agent-based computing with prototyped or fielded systems in various application domains.
In 2014 the MATES conference will be co-located with the 44th Symposium of the German Computer Science Association GI (INFORMATIK 2014).
Moreover, the event will also host a Doctoral Consortium to support young researchers of this broad field in their PhD studies.
Topics of Interest
MATES 2014 covers all areas of intelligent agents and multiagent system technologies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Multiagent platform and tools
Agent-oriented software engineering, model-driven design of multiagent systems
Agent communication languages
Autonomous robots and robot teams
Advanced theories of collaboration: Modelling and formation of agent teams, groups, coalitions, and organizations
Multiagent systems: Conventions, norms, institutions; trust and reputation
Adaptive agents and multiagent learning
Multiagent planning and scheduling
Agent-based information retrieval
Agents and P2P computing
Agent-based service coordination (discovery, composition, negotiation, execution)
Agent-based simulation of complex systems and applications
Embodied conversational actors and believable agents, and user modelling
Hybrid human and agent societies
Semantic Web (services) and agents
Agents for the Social Web
Agents for the Internet of Services
Agents for the Internet of Things, pervasive computing
Agents for cloud computing
Mobile agents
Standards for agents and multiagent systems
Prototyped or fielded agent-based applications in various domains (e.g. e-business, e-health, e-government, automotive, smart city, smart grids, renewable energy).
An Innovative Application Track is planned covering the fields of automation technology, traffic and transport, as well as smart grid.