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Section I: Agent Theories.- Reasoning about Visibility, Perception, and Knowledge.- A Spectrum of Modes of Knowledge Sharing between Agents.- Observability-based Nested Belief Computation for Multiagent Systems and Its Formalization.- On the Correctness of PRS Agent Programs.- Incorporating Uncertainty in Agent Commitments.- Section II: Agent and System Architectures.- Rational Cognition in OSCAR.- Agents for Information Broadcasting.- On the Evaluation of Agent Architectures.- Toward a Methodology for AI Architecture Evaluation: Comparing Soar and CLIPS.- Reactive-System Approaches to Agent Architectures.- A Planning Component for RETSINA Agents.- A Scalable Agent Location Mechanism.- Section III: Agent Languages.- Reactivity in a Logic-Based Robot Programming Framework.- Extending ConGolog to Allow Partial Ordering.- Operational Semantics of Multi-Agent Organizations.- Open Multi-Agent Systems: Agent Communication and Integration.- Toward Team-Oriented Programming.- Section IV: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.- Multiagent System Engineering: The Coordination Viewpoint.- Using Multi-context Systems to Engineer Executable Agents.- Structuring BDI Agents in Functional Clusters.- Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework.- Section V: Decision Making in a Social Context.- Variable Sociability in Agent-Based Decision Making.- Cooperation and Group Utility.- Relating Quantified Motivations for Organizationally Situated Agents.- The Role and the Impact of Preferences on Multiagent Interaction.- Deliberative Normative Agents: Principles and Architecture.