Engineering Societies in the Agents World II [electronic resource] : Second International Workshop, ESAW 2001 Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2001 Revised Papers / edited by Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Robert Tolksdorf.

Categories of Artificial Societies -- A Methodological Perspective on Engineering of Agent Societies -- A distributed approach to design open multi-agent systems -- Engineering infrastructures for mobile organizations -- Preferring and updating in abductive multi-agent systems -- Reasoning about failure -- Agent-Oriented Language Engineering for Robust NLP -- Extending a logic based one-to-one negotiation framework to one-to-many negotiation -- The tragedy of the Commons — Arms Race within Peer-to-Peer Tools -- Agentspace as a Middleware for Service Integration -- Toward a Multi-agent Modelling Approach for Urban Public Transportation systems -- ITTALKS: An application of agents in the Semantic Web.