[agents] MATES 2009 Exhibition Paper Call

[Alexander Pokahr]

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                    CALL FOR EXHIBITION PAPERS

MATES 2009 - Seventh German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies

             September 9 - 11, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany
 
            http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates


INTRODUCTION

The German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies (MATES) provides an
interdisciplinary forum for researchers, users, and developers, to
present and
discuss latest advances in research work, as well as prototyped or fielded
systems of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

MATES 2009 will feature an exhibition of development tools, prototype
technologies, showcases of practical applications and their management,
and business cases of agent and multi-agent technology at the conference
venue.
Each potential exhibitor is requested to submit an exhibition paper
describing
the contribution that follows the submission details of technical papers but
does not exceed 10 pages. Exhibition papers will be reviewed and
published as
part of the conference proceedings. At the conference, a special track for
exhibition paper presentations will be held in addition to an
opportunity for
live presentations of the practical work at poster stands.


SUBMISSION DETAILS

All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. The paper
style should follow the Springer LNCS formatting and must not exceed 10
pages.

Submissions should be uploaded at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mates2009
(Choose paper type 'exhibition paper' when adding your submission)

All exhibition papers will be reviewed and accepted exhibition papers
will be
included in the MATES proceedings to be published in the Springer series of
Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).


IMPORTANT DATES

    * Submissions: April 4, 2009
    * Notification of authors: May 22, 2009
    * Camera-ready papers: June 19, 2009
    * Conference: September 9-11, 2009

    
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
 
Program Co-Chairs:

Lars Braubach (U Hamburg, D)
Wiebe van der Hoek (U Liverpool, UK)
Paolo Petta (OFAI, A)
Alexander Pokahr (U Hamburg, D)

General Chair:

Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, D)

Steering Committee:
 
Hans-Dieter Burkhard (HU Berlin, Germany)
Stefan Kirn (U Hohenheim, Germany)
Matthias Klusch (DFKI, Germany)
Jörg P. Müller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
Rainer Unland (U Essen, Germany)
Gerhard Weiss (SCCH Hagenberg, Austria)
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

More than 40 distinguished researchers and practitioners have confirmed
their participation in the program committee of MATES 2009. See:
http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Program+Committee
 

CONTACTS

Lars Braubach
Alexander Pokahr
Arbeitsbereich Verteilte Systeme und Informationssysteme (VSIS)
Department Informatik
Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften (MIN)
Universität Hamburg
Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30
22527 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.    +49-40-42883-2091
Fax.    +49-40-42883-2328
http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de