Table of Contents:
  • Agent-oriented software engineering / Nicholas R. Jennings
  • Specification of behavioural requirements within compositional multi-agent system design / Daniela E. Herlea [and others]
  • Agent-oriented design / K.S. Barber, T.H. Liu, D.C. Han
  • A developer's perspective on multi-agent system design / P. Charlton, E. Mamdani
  • A development environment for the realization of open and scalable multi-agent systems / Federico Bergenti, Agostino Poggi
  • Modelling agents in hard real-time environments / V. Botti [and others]
  • Multi-agent systems on the internet extending the scope of coordination towards security and topology / Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini and Franco Zambonelli
  • Protocol engineering for multi-agent interaction / Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Serge Haddad, Hamza Mazouzi
  • Designing agent communication languages for multi-agent systems / Jeremy Pitt, Abe Mamdani
  • A temporal agent communication language for dynamic multi-agent systems / T. Carron, H. Proton, O. Boissier
  • Multi-paradigm languages supporting multi-agent development / Analia Amandi, Alejandro Zunino, Ramiro Iturregui
  • An efficient argumentation framework for negotiating autonomous agents / Michael Schroeder
  • Negotiating service provisioning / Mihai Barbuceanu
  • Cooperative plan selection through trust / Nathan Griffiths, Michael Luck
  • Extending social reasoning to cope with multiple partner coalitions / Nuno David, Jaime Simao Sichman, Helder Coelho
  • Basic mental attitudes of a collaborating agent: cognitive primitives for MAS / Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
  • Subjective situations / Antonio Moreno, Ullises Cortes, Ton Sales
  • Formal analysis of models for the dynamics of trust based on experiences / Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur.