MATES 2004: Erfurt, Germany
Gabriela Lindemann, Jörg Denzinger, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Unland (Eds.): Multiagent System Technologies, Second German Conference, MATES 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004, Proceedings. Springer 2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-23222-2
Invited Talks
James Odell: Agent UML 2.0: Too Radical or Not Radical Enough? 1
Cristiano Castelfranchi: Emergence and Cognition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science. 2-28
Learning and Social Agents
Jürgen Klüver, Maarten Sierhuis, Christina Stoica: The Emergence of Social Order in a Robotic Society.. 29-46
Stefan Mandl, Herbert Stoyan: Evolution of Agent Coordination in an Asynchronous Version of the Predator-Prey Pursuit Game. 47-57
Christian Guttmann, Ingrid Zukerman: Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators' Internal Resources. 58-72
Analysis and Security
João Paulo Pimentão, Pedro A. C. Sousa, Pedro Amaral, Adolfo Steiger-Garção: Agent-Based Communication Security. 73-84
Jørgen Villadsen: Paraconsistent Assertions. 99-113
Negotiation and Control

Karl Kurbel, Iouri Loutchko, Frank Teuteberg: FuzzyMAN: An Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace with a Multilateral Negotiation Protocol. 126-140
Karl Kleinmann: Cascaded Control of Multi-agent Systems. 141-154
Agents and Software Engineering
Fernando Alonso, Sonia Frutos, Loïc Martínez, César Montes: Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology. 155-168
Gaya Buddhinath Jayatilleke, Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff: Towards a Component-Based Development Framework for Agents. 183-197
Tawfig Abdelaziz, Mohamed Elammari, Rainer Unland: Visualizing a Multiagent-Based Medical Diagnosis System Using a Methodology Based on Use Case Maps. 198-212
Simulation and Agents I
Giancarlo Fortino, Alfredo Garro, Wilma Russo: From Modeling to Simulation of Multi-agent Systems: An Integrated Approach and a Case Study. 213-227
Michael Schüle, Rainer Herrler, Franziska Klügl: Coupling GIS and Multi-agent Simulation - Towards Infrastructure for Realistic Simulation. 228-242
Oliver Obst, Markus Rollmann: Spark - A Generic Simulator for Physical Multi-agent Simulations. 243-257
Simulation and Agents II
David Sislák, Michal Pechoucek, Milan Rollo, Martin Rehák, Jan Tozicka: Simulating Agents' Mobility and Inaccessibility with A-globe Multi-agent System. 258-272
Adriana Giret, Vicente J. Botti: On the Definition of Meta-models for Analysis of Large-Scale MAS. 273-286
Michal Pechoucek, Jirí Vokrínek, Jirí Hodík, Petr Becvár, Jirí Pospísil: ExPlanTech: Multi-agent Framework for Production Planning, Simulation and Supply Chain Management. 287-300
Policies and Testing
Juan A. Botía, Juan Manuel Hernansaez, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta: Towards an Approach for Debugging MAS Through the Analysis of ACL Messages. 301-312
Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum: Implementing Norms in Multiagent Systems. 313-327



