This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2006, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2006 - co-located with Net.ObjectDays (NoDe 2006)
The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent communication and interaction, applications and simulation, agent planning, agent-oriented software engineering, as well as trust and security.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Klaus Fischer Ingo J. Timm Elisabeth André Ning Zhong (Eds.)
Multiagent System Technologies 4th German Conference, MATES 2006 Erfurt, Germany, September 19-20, 2006 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Klaus Fischer DFKI GmbH Deduction and Multiagent Systems Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany E-mail:
[email protected] Ingo J. Timm Universität Bremen Technologie-Zentrum Informatik Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany E-mail:
[email protected] Elisabeth André Universität Augsburg Institut für Informatik Eichleitnerstr. 30, 86135 Augsburg, Germany E-mail:
[email protected] Ning Zhong Knowledge Information Systems Lab. Maebashi Institute of Technology 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City 371-0816, Japan E-mail:
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Preface
After three successful MATES conferences in Erfurt in 2003 and 2004 and in Koblenz in 2005, the 4th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2006) took place again in Erfurt collocated with Net.ObjectDays 2006. Building on other agent-related events in Germany in the past, and organized by the GI German Special Interest Group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, the MATES conference series aims at promoting the theory and applications of agents and multiagent systems. As in the past years, MATES 2006 provided a distinguished, l