Multiagent system technologies : Second German Conference, MATES 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004 : proceedings

Invited Talks.- Agent UML 2.0: Too Radical or Not Radical Enough?.- Emergence and Cognition: Towards a Synthetic Paradigm in AI and Cognitive Science.- Learning and Social Agents.- The Emergence of Social Order in a Robotic Society.- Evolution of Agent Coordination in an Asynchronous Version of the Predator-Prey Pursuit Game.- Towards Models of Incomplete and Uncertain Knowledge of Collaborators' Internal Resources.- Analysis and Security.- Agent-Based Communication Security.- Modelling and Analysis of Agent Protocols with Petri Nets.- Paraconsistent Assertions.- Negotiation and Control.- C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations.- FuzzyMAN: An Agent-Based Electronic Marketplace with a Multilateral Negotiation Protocol.- Cascaded Control of Multi-agent Systems.- Agents and Software Engineering.- Towards a Natural Agent Paradigm Development Methodology.- Developing Tools for Agent-Oriented Visual Modeling.- Towards a Component-Based Development Framework for Agents.- Visualizing a Multiagent-Based Medical Diagnosis System Using a Methodology Based on Use Case Maps.- Simulation and Agents I.- From Modeling to Simulation of Multi-agent Systems: An Integrated Approach and a Case Study.- Coupling GIS and Multi-agent Simulation - Towards Infrastructure for Realistic Simulation.- Spark - A Generic Simulator for Physical Multi-agent Simulations.- Simulation and Agents II.- Simulating Agents' Mobility and Inaccessibility with -globe Multi-agent System.- On the Definition of Meta-models for Analysis of Large-Scale MAS.- ExPlanTech: Multi-agent Framework for Production Planning, Simulation and Supply Chain Management.- Policies and Testing.- Towards an Approach for Debugging MAS Through the Analysis of ACL Messages.- Implementing Norms in Multiagent Systems.- Policies for Cloned Teleo-reactive Robots.