Programming Multi-Agent Systems [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers / edited by Rafael H. Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Amal Fallah Seghrouchni.

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.

These are the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Programming Multi-agentSystems(ProMAS2004),heldinJuly2004inNewYork(USA)asan associated event of AAMAS 2004, the main international conference dedicated to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The idea of organizing such an event was discussed during the Dagstuhl s- inarProgramming Multi-agent Systems Based on Logic (see [2]), where the focus was on logic-based approaches. It was felt that the scope should be broadened beyond logic-based approaches, and thus ProMAS came into being (see [1] for the proceedings of the ?rst event, ProMAS 2003). Meanwhile, a Steering Committee (Rafael Bordini, Mehdi Dastani, Jurgen ¨ Dix, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni) as well as an AgentLink III Technical Forum GrouponProgrammingMulti-agentSystems wereestablished(thelatteronewas founded on 30 June/1 July 2004 in Rome, Italy (see http:// www.cs.uu.nl/ mehdi/al3tf8.html). Moreover, a Kluwer book on the same topic is underway (to appear early in 2005) and the third workshop ProMAS 2005 will be organized within AAMAS 2005 (see http://www.cs.uu.nl/ProMAS/ for up-to-date information about ProMAS).