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Team Formation by Self-Interested Mobile Agents.- Conception, Behavioural Semantics and Formal Specification of Multi-agent Systems.- Learning Message-Related Coordination Control in Multiagent Systems.- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning System Integrating Exploitation- and Exploration-Oriented Learning.- Motivated Behaviour for Goal Adoption.- Physically Based, Self-Organized Cellular Automata.- Service Contract Negotiation - Agent-Based Support for Open Service Environments.- An Awareness-Based Model for Agents Involved in Reporting Activities.- : A Language for Modelling and Designing Agent-Based Intelligent Systems.- Programming Internet Based DAI Applications in Qu-Prolog.- Design of an Agent-Based, Multi-user Scheduling Implementation.- A Team of Agents Cooperating for Intelligent Tutoring.- Secure Information Gathering Agent for Internet Trading.