Multiagent System Technologies [electronic resource] : First German Conference, MATES 2003 Erfurt, Germany, September 22-25, 2003 Proceedings / edited by Michael Schillo, Matthias Klusch, Jörg Müller, Huaglory Tianfield.

Engineering Agent-Based Systems -- The AgentComponent Approach, Combining Agents, and Components -- From Simulated to Real Environments: How to Use SeSAm for Software Development -- Indicators for Self-Diagnosis: Communication-Based Performance Measures -- Systems and Applications (1) -- The AEP Toolkit for Agent Design and Simulation -- On Programming Information Agent Systems – An Integrated Hotel Reservation Service as Case Study -- Applying Agents for Engineering of Industrial Automation Systems -- Systems and Applications (2) -- SimMarket: Multiagent-Based Customer Simulation and Decision Support for Category Management -- A Multi-agent Approach to the Design of an E-medicine System -- Implementing Heterogeneous Agents in Dynamic Environments, a Case Study in RoboCupRescue -- Models and Architectures -- Model for Simultaneous Actions in Situated Multi-agent Systems -- Handling Sequences of Belief Change in a Multi-agent Context -- From the Specification of Multiagent Systems by Statecharts to Their Formal Analysis by Model Checking: Towards Safety-Critical Applications -- The Semantic Web and Issues of Inter-operability -- The SWAP Data and Metadata Model for Semantics-Based Peer-to-Peer Systems -- An Ontology for Production Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes -- Ontology-Based Capability Management for Distributed Problem Solving in the Manufacturing Domain -- Using the Publish-Subscribe Communication Genre for Mobile Agents -- Issues of Collaboration and Negotiation -- Multiagent Matching Algorithms with and without Coach -- Improving Evolutionary Learning of Cooperative Behavior by Including Accountability of Strategy Components -- The C-IPS Agent Architecture for Modeling Negotiating Social Agents.