In today s society the issue of security has become a crucial one. The use of knowledge-based technology in security applications emerges with important applications in monitoring, control, crisis, and rescue management. This volume contains extended and improved versions of selected contributions presented at the International Workshop "Monitoring, Security and Rescue Techniques in Multiagent Systems" (MSRAS 2004) held in Plock, Poland, June 7-9, 2004, bringing together the world s leading researchers in the field."

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems, CEEMAS 2001, held in Cracow, Poland, in September 2001.The 33 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers address:- organizational and social aspects of MAS;- communication languages, protocols, and negotiation;- applications of MAS in various fields;- agent and multi-agent development tools;- theoretical foundations of DAI;- learning in MAS.