Multiagent System Technologies 5th German Conference, MATES 2007

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4687

Paolo Petta Jörg P. Müller Matthias Klusch Michael Georgeff (Eds.)

Multiagent System Technologies 5th German Conference, MATES 2007 Leipzig, Germany, September 24-26, 2007 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 Paolo Petta Medizinische Universität Wien Freyung 6/II, 1010 Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Jörg P. Müller Technische Universität Clausthal Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Matthias Klusch Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Michael Georgeff Monash University Locked Bag 29, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007934801 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, D.1.12, D.1.3, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES) provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers to present and discuss the latest advances in research work as well as prototyped or fielded systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems. The conference aims to promote theory and applications and covers the whole range of agent- and multiagent technologies. For the fifth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with the Steering Committee of MATES organized this international conference. Building on the four successful predecessors in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, MATES 2007 took place September 24–26, 2007 under the umbrella of the SABRE (Software, Agents, and Services for Business, Research, and E-Sciences) event organized by the University of Leipzig. Situated in the lively scene of agent-based computing in Europe that is exemplifie