1. Editorial: Special issue on foundations, advanced topics and industrial perspectives of multi-agent systems

   • Peter McBurney
   • Andrea Omicini

   EditorialNotes 17 May 2008 Pages: 367 - 371

2. Technology diffusion: analysing the diffusion of agent technologies

   • Jez McKean
   • Hayden Shorter
   • Steven Willmott

   OriginalPaper 14 May 2008 Pages: 372 - 396

3. Industrial deployment of multi-agent technologies: review and selected case studies

   • Michal Pěchouček
   • Vladimír Mařík

   OriginalPaper 14 May 2008 Pages: 397 - 431

4. Artifacts in the A&A meta-model for multi-agent systems

   • Andrea Omicini
   • Alessandro Ricci
   • Mirko Viroli

   OriginalPaper 15 May 2008 Pages: 432 - 456

5. Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents

   • Raffaele Quitadamo
   • Franco Zambonelli

   OriginalPaper 14 May 2008 Pages: 457 - 475