This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th German Conference on Multiagent
Systems Technologies MATES 2009 held in Hamburg Germany in September 2009 - colocated with
the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA X) and the
5th International Workshop on Modelling of Objects Components and Agents (MOCA 2009). The 14
revised full papers 10 short papers and 5 exhibition papers presented together with one
invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers present and
discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and
multiagent systems ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in
various fields.
