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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004.The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and social agents, analysis and security, negotiation and control, agents and software engineering, simulation and agents, and policies and testing.
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3187 This page intentionally left blank Gabriela Lindemann Jörg Denzinger Ingo J. Timm Rainer Unland (Eds.) Multiagent System Technologies Second German Conference, MATES 2004 Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004 Proceedings Springer eBook ISBN: Print ISBN: 3-540-30082-1 3-540-23222-2 ©2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Print ©2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Springer's eBookstore at: and the Springer Global Website Online at: http://ebooks.springerlink.com http://www.springeronline.com Preface After the huge success of the first German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES) last year in Erfurt the German Special Interest Group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence together with the steering committee of MATES proudly organized and conducted this international conference for the second time. The goal of the MATES conference is to constitute a high-quality