Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004.;The 22 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions.;The papers are organized in topical sections on learning and social agents, analysis and security, negotiation and control, agents and software engineering, simulation and agents, and policies and testing.