1. Guest Editorial: Best of ICMAS'98—Part I

   • Yves Demazeau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 7

2. Semantic Issues in the Verification of Agent Communication Languages

   • Michael Wooldridge

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 31

3. Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents

   • Sunju Park
   • Edmund H. Durfee
   • William P. Birmingham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 51

4. Resource-Oriented Multicommodity Market Algorithms

   • Fredrik Ygge
   • Hans Akkermans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 71

5. Agents in Electronic Commerce: Component Technologies for Automated Negotiation and Coalition Formation

   • Tuomas Sandholm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 96