Introduction -- 1. The Role of Organization in Agent Systems --

Section 1. Methodologies and Frameworks for Agent Organizations -- 2. Modelling Dimensions for Agent Organizations -- 3. Towards an Integral Approach of Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems -- 4. OMACS: A Framework for Adaptive, Complex Systems -- 5. Hermes: Designing Flexible and Robust Agent Interactions --

Section 2. Formal Approaches for Agent Organizations -- 6. A Formal Framework for Organization Modeling and Analysis -- 7. Describing Agent Societies: A Declarative Semantics -- 8. Structural Aspects of Organizations -- 9. A Logic for Agent Organizations --

Section 3. Interactions in Organizations -- 10. Grounding Organizations in the Minds of the Agents -- 11. Modelling Interactions via Commitments and Expectations -- 12. Communications for Agent-Based Human Team Support -- 13. Autonomous Agents Adopting Organizational Rules --

Section 4. Norms and Institutions -- 14. Specifying Artificial Institutions in the Event Calculus -- 15. Verifying Organizations Regulated by Institutions -- 16. A Programming Language for Normative Multi-Agent Systems --

Section 5. Organizational Dynamics -- 17. A Minimal Dynamical MAS Organization Model -- 18. A Framework for Dynamic Agent Organizations -- 19. Dynamic Specifications for Norm-Governed Systems -- 20. Interactions Between Formal and Informal Organizational Networks --

Section 6. Applications -- 21. Personal Assistants for Human Organizations -- 22. Organizational Self-Design in Worth-Oriented Domains -- 23. A Formal Petri Net Based Model for Team Monitoring -- About the Contributors -- Index.