1. Towards agent-oriented conceptualization and implementation / Pratik K. Biswas -- 2. Concurrent programming with multi-agents and the chemical abstract machine / Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Dharmendra Sharma, Hong Lin, and Mary Anderson -- 3. Coalition formation among agents in complex problems based on a combinatorial auction perspective / Hiromitsu Hattori, Tadachika Ozono, and Toramatsu Shintani -- 4. A gentle introduction to fuzzy logic and its applications to intelligent agents design / Andre de Korvin, Plamen Simeonov, and Hong Lin -- 5. Component agent systems : building a mobile agent architecture that you can reuse / Paulo Marques and Lúis Silva -- 6. Designing a foundation for mobile agents in peer-to-peer networks / Daniel Lübke and Jorge Marx Gómez -- 7. Dynamic scheduling of multi-agent in agent-based distributed network management / Luo Junzhou, Liu Bo, and Li Wei -- 8. Scalable fault tolerant agent grooming environment (SAGE) / Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Arshad Ali, Amna Basharat, and Amina Tarqiq -- 9. Toward agent-based grid computing / Lizhe Wang -- 10. MAITS : a multi-agent-based IT security approach / Dharmendra Sharma, Wanli Ma, Dat Tran, Shuangzhe Liu, and Mary Anderson -- 11. A methodology for modeling expert knowledge for development of agent-based systems / Michael Bowman -- 12. Three perspectives on multi-agent reinforcement learning / Yang Gao, Hao Wang, and Ruili Wang.

13. Modeling knowledge and reasoning in conversational recommendation agents / Maria Salamó, Barry Smyth, Kevin McCarthy, James Reilly, and Lorraine McGinty -- 14. Task allocation in case-based recommender systems : a swarm intelligence approach / Fabiana Lorenzi, Daniela Scherer dos Santos, Denise de Oliveira, and Ana L.C. Bazzan -- 15. A multi-agent system for optimal supply chain management / Hyung Rim Choi, Hyun Soo Kim, Yong Sung Park, and Byung Joo Park -- 16. Macroscopic modeling of information flow in an agent-based electronic health record system / Ben Tse and Raman Paranjape -- 17. Robust intelligent control of mobile robots / Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer, Jörg Weber, and Franz Wotawa -- 18. RiskMan : a multi-agent system for risk management / Manolya Kavakli, Nicolas Szilas, John Porte, and Iwan Kartiko.