Introduction to Active Sets and Unification -- Modeling a Teacher in a Tutorial-like System Using Learning Automata -- Power Network Reliability Computations Using Multi-agent Simulation -- Sequence Automata for Researching Consensus Levels -- An Analysis of the Influence of Fundamental Indexing on Financial Markets through Agent-Based Modeling: The Fundamentalist and Fundamental Indexing -- Agent-Driven Integration Architecture for Component-Based Software Development -- Adaptive Tutoring in an Intelligent Conversational Agent System -- Biological and Computational Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Phenomena: Shared Understanding and Collective Power -- Agent-Based Crowd Simulation in Airports Using Games Technology -- Approximate Algorithms for Solving O1 Consensus Problems Using Complex Tree Structure -- Author Index.