These conference proceedings reflect current directions in agent-related research. Covering artificial intelligence, intelligent agents and distributed systems, this study should be useful for researchers and professionals.

The rights of agents.- Formalising motivational attitudes of agents.- Decision procedures for prepositional linear-time belief-desire-intention logics.- Semantical considerations on some primitives for agent specification.- Reasoning about acting, sensing and failure handling: A logic for agents embedded in the real world.- Time, knowledge, and choice.- Learning routines.- Conflict detection and resolution in collaborative planning.- Games servers play: A procedural approach.- On reasoning about other agents.- Architectures for agents that track other agents in multi-agent worlds.- Using recursive agent models effectively.- Experiences with an architecture for intelligent, reactive agents.- A pragmatic BDI architecture.- Alarms: An implementation of motivated agency.- The architecture of an agent building shell.- MIX: A general purpose multiagent architecture.- Cognition based multi-agent architecture.- Some issues in the design of market-oriented agents.- Cooperating logical agents.- Open reflective agents.- Foundations of a logical approach to agent programming.- Evaluation of KQML as an agent communication language.- Consistency and context management in a multi-agent belief revision testbed.- A markovian model for interaction among behavior-based agents.- SIM_AGENT: A toolkit for exploring agent designs.- Agent theories, architectures, and languages: A bibliography.