Multiagent System Technologies 10th German Conference, MATES 201

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies held in Trier Germany, in October 2012. The 7 revised full papers presented together with 6 short parers and one invited paper were carefully reviewed an

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Ingo J. Timm Christian Guttmann (Eds.)

Multiagent System Technologies 10th German Conference, MATES 2012 Trier, Germany, October 10-12, 2012 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Ingo J. Timm University of Trier Department of Business Information Systems I Universitätsring 15 54286, Trier E-mail: [email protected] Christian Guttmann IBM R&D Laboratories Level 5, 204 Lygon Street Carlton, VIC 3051, Australia and Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Centre (EBTIC) Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and School of Primary Health Care, Monash University Melbourne, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-33689-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33690-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33690-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947928 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2.8, K.4.4, H.3.4, H.4.1, I.6.5, I.6.8, I.2.3-4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence

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Preface

This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at MATES 2012, the 10th German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies, held on October 10–12, 2012 in Trier, Germany. Over the past decade, the MATES conference series has established itself as a growing and important forum for researchers, users (members of business and industry), and developers of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, in Germany and beyond. Current challenges in society require intelligent technologies like agents and multi-agent systems to enable companies and organizations to be more resilient, inter-connected, and collaborative. Hence, the conference investigates technologies for truly open