Multiagent System Technologies: 4th German Conference, MATES 2006 Erfurt, Germany, September 19-20, 2006 Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2006, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2006 - co-located with Net.ObjectDays (NoDe 2006) The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent communication and interaction, applications and simulation, agent planning, agent-oriented software engineering, as well as trust and security. Front Matter....Pages - Adding New Communication Services to the FIPA Message Transport System....Pages 1-11 Analysis of Multi-Agent Interactions with Process Mining Techniques....Pages 12-23 Engineering Agent Conversations with the DIALOG Framework....Pages 24-36 Agents’ Bidding Strategies in a Combinatorial Auction....Pages 37-48 Modeling and Simulation of Tests for Agents....Pages 49-60 Agent-Based Simulation Versus Econometrics – from Macro- to Microscopic Approaches in Route Choice Simulation....Pages 61-72 Agent Based Simulation Architecture for Evaluating Operational Policies in Transshipping Containers....Pages 73-85 Diagnosis of Multi-agent Plan Execution....Pages 86-97 Framework and Complexity Results for Coordinating Non-cooperative Planning Agents....Pages 98-109 A Model Driven Approach to Agent-Based Service-Oriented Architectures....Pages 110-122 Meta-models, Models, and Model Transformations: Towards Interoperable Agents....Pages 123-134 Formation of Virtual Organizations Through Negotiation....Pages 135-146 Continuations and Behavior Components Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems....Pages 147-158 Evaluating Mobile Agent Platform Security....Pages 159-171 A New Model for Trust and Reputation Management with an Ontology Based Approach for Similarity Between Tasks....Pages 172-183 Back Matter....Pages -