Multiagent System Technologies [electronic resource] : Second German Conference, MATES 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Gabriela Lindemann, Jörg Denzinger, Ingo J. Timm, Rainer Unland.

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.