Programming Multi-Agent Systems Second International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the Second International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, ProMAS 2004, held in New York, NY, USA in July 2004 as a satellite workshop of AAMAS 2004.
The 10 revised full papers presented together with two invited articles were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent-oriented programming, agent platforms and tools, agent languages, and multi-agent systems techniques.

Invited Papers.- Coordinating Teams in Uncertain Environments: A Hybrid BDI-POMDP Approach.- Agents – The Challenge of Relevance to the IT Mainstream.- Agent-Oriented Programming.- Goal Representation for BDI Agent Systems.- AF-APL – Bridging Principles and Practice in Agent Oriented Languages.- Agent Platforms and Tools.- A Toolkit for the Realization of Constraint-Based Multiagent Systems.- Debugging Agent Behavior in an Implemented Agent System.- A Mobile Agents Platform: Architecture, Mobility and Security Elements.- Agent Languages.- Bridging the Gap Between AUML and Implementation Using IOM/T.- Inter-agent Communication in IMAGO Prolog.- Multi-agent Systems Techniques.- OMNI: Introducing Social Structure, Norms and Ontologies into Agent Organizations.- A Dialogue Game to Offer an Agreement to Disagree.- Coordination of Complex Systems Based on Multi-agent Planning: Application to the Aircraft Simulation Domain.