Multiagent System Technologies 6th German Conference, MATES 2008

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2008, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2008 - co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2008

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

5244

Ralph Bergmann Gabriela Lindemann Stefan Kirn Michal Pˇechouˇcek (Eds.)

Multiagent System Technologies 6th German Conference, MATES 2008 Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23-26, 2008 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 Ralph Bergmann University of Trier Department of Business Information Systems II Trier, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Gabriela Lindemann Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Computer Science Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Stefan Kirn University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Michal Pˇechouˇcek Czech Technical University, Department of Cybernetics Prague, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.11, I.2, C.2.4, D.2.12, D.1.3, J.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-87804-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-87804-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

For the sixth time, the German special interest group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with the Steering Committee of MATES organized the German Conference on Multiagent System Technologies – MATES 2008. This conference, which took place during September 23–26, 2008 in Kaiserslautern, followed a series of successful predecessor conferences in Erfurt (2003, 2004, and 2006), Koblenz (2005), and Leipzig (2007). MATES 2008 was co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2008) and was hosted by the University of Kaiserslautern and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). As in recent years, MATES 2008 provided a distinguished, lively, and interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers of agent technology to present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems