Engineering Societies in the Agents World VIII

Electronic Institutions.- Action and Agency in Norm-Governed Multi-agent Systems.- Managing Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments.- Alternative Dispute Resolution in Virtual Organizations.- Electronic Institutions Infrastructure for e-Chartering.- Models of Complex Distributed Systems with Agents and Societies.- Multi-agent Simulation to Implementation: A Practical Engineering Methodology for Designing Space Flight Operations.- Progress Appraisal as a Challenging Element of Coordination in Human and Machine Joint Activity.- Automated Web Services Composition with the Event Calculus.- OPERAS: A Framework for the Formal Modelling of Multi-Agent Systems and Its Application to Swarm-Based Systems.- Interaction in Agent Societies.- The Acquisition of Linguistic Competence for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences.- Contextualizing Behavioural Substitutability and Refinement of Role Components in MAS.- Amongst First-Class Protocols.- Engineering Social Intelligence in Multi-agent Systems.- Simulation of Negotiation Policies in Distributed Multiagent Resource Allocation.- Collective-Based Multiagent Coordination: A Case Study.- Tag Mechanisms Evaluated for Coordination in Open Multi-Agent Systems.- Trust and Reputation in Agent Societies.- Toward a Probabilistic Model of Trust in Agent Societies.- Arguing about Reputation: The LRep Language.- Analysis, Design and Development of Agent Societies.- From AO Methodologies to MAS Infrastructures: The SODA Case Study.- Model Driven Engineering for Designing Adaptive Multi-Agents Systems.- Trace-Based Specification of Law and Guidance Policies for Multi-Agent Systems.