1. Guest Editorial

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 5 - 5

2. DECAF - A Flexible Multi Agent System Architecture

   • John R. Graham
   • Keith S. Decker
   • Michael Mersic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 27

3. The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure

   • Katia Sycara
   • Massimo Paolucci
   • Joseph Giampapa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 48

4. Infrastructure for Design, Deployment and Experimentation of Distributed Agent-based Systems: The Requirements, The Technologies, and An Example

   • K. S. Barber
   • A. Goel
   • R. McKay

   OriginalPaper Pages: 49 - 69

5. An Automated Teamwork Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Software Agents and Humans

   • David V. Pynadath
   • Milind Tambe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 100

6. The RoboCup Soccer Server and CMUnited Clients: Implemented Infrastructure for MAS Research

   • Itsuki Noda
   • Peter Stone

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 120

7. Performance Competitions as Research Infrastructure: Large Scale Comparative Studies of Multi-Agent Teams

   • Gal A. Kaminka
   • Ian Frank
   • Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 144

8. Congregation Formation in Multiagent Systems

   • Christopher H. Brooks
   • Edmund H. Durfee

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 170

9. CoABS Grid Scalability Experiments

   • Martha L. Kahn
   • Cynthia Della Torre Cicalese

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 178

10. Using Domain-Independent Exception Handling Services to Enable Robust Open Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of Agent Death

    • Mark Klein
    • Juan-Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar
    • Chrysanthos Dellarocas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 189