Overall Design and Fundations -- Hybrid Multi-agent Systems: Integrating Swarming and BDI Agents -- An Analysis and Design Concept for Self-organization in Holonic Multi-agent Systems -- Design Patterns for Decentralised Coordination in Self-organising Emergent Systems -- Measuring Stigmergy: The Case of Foraging Ants -- Algorithms and Techniques -- Dynamic Decentralized Any-Time Hierarchical Clustering -- Behaviosites: A Novel Paradigm for Affecting Distributed Behavior -- Applications -- Programming Modular Robots with the TOTA Middleware -- ASOS: An Adaptive Self-organizing Protocol for Surveillance and Routing in Sensor Networks -- Towards the Control of Emergence by the Coordination of Decentralized Agent Activity for the Resource Sharing Problem -- Self-organization and Evolutionary Computing -- Reinforcement Learning for Online Control of Evolutionary Algorithms -- Greedy Cheating Liars and the Fools Who Believe Them -- Evolution and Hypercomputing in Global Distributed Evolvable Virtual Machines Environment -- A Decentralised Car Traffic Control System Simulation Using Local Message Propagation Optimised with a Genetic Algorithm.