With the integration of computing and communication into the very fabric of our social, economic, and personal existence, the manner in which we think about and build software has become the subject of intense intellectual, scienti?c, and engineering reexamination.

Context-Awareness and Coordination.- Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems.- Views: Middleware Abstractions for Context-Aware Applications in MANETs.- An Adaptive Distributed Layout for Multi-agent Applications.- Self-organizing Approaches for Large-Scale Spray Multiagent Systems.- Coordination Artifacts as First-Class Abstractions for MAS Engineering: State of the Research.- Modeling.- Analysis and Design of Physical and Social Contexts in Multi-agent Systems.- Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems.- Developing and Evaluating a Generic Metamodel for MAS Work Products.- Agent Roles, Qua Individuals and the Counting Problem.- Requirements and Software Architecture.- A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems.- Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles.- Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes.- Patterns for Modelling Agent Systems with Tropos.- Dependability.- On the Use of Formal Specifications as Part of Running Programs.- Adaptive Replication of Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems – Towards a Fault-Tolerant Multi-agent Platform.