After two successful MATES conferences in Erfurt 2003 and 2004, the 3rd G- man conference on Multi-agent System Technologies (MATES 2005) took place in Koblenz, Germany, in September 2005, and was co-located with the 28th German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2005). Building onotheragent-relatedeventsinGermanyinthepast,andorganized by the GI German Special Interest Group on Distributed Arti?cial Intelligence, the MATES conference series aims at promoting the theory and applications of agentsandmultiagentsystems.Incorporatingthe9thInternationalWorkshopon Cooperative Information Agents (CIA 2005), the topics of interest for MATES 2005 also covered the ?elds of intelligent information agents and systems for the Internet and the (Semantic) Web. As in recent years, MATES 2005 provided a distinguished, lively and int- disciplinary 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. Accordingly, the topics of MATES 2005 covered the whole range from the theory to applications of age- and multiagent technology. The technical program included a total of 24 sci- ti?c talks, and demonstrations of selected running agent systems, and both the MATES 2005 Best Paper and the CIA 2005 System Innovation awards.
Editors and Affiliations
Chair of Information Systems Management, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Torsten Eymann
Department for Artificial Intelligence, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg
Franziska Klügl
Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Winfried Lamersdorf
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany
Matthias Klusch
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
Michael N. Huhns
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiagent System Technologies
Book Subtitle: Third German Conference, MATES 2005, Koblenz, Germany, September 11-13, 2005, Proceedings
Editors: Torsten Eymann, Franziska Klügl, Winfried Lamersdorf, Matthias Klusch, Michael N. Huhns