This book presents a coherent, well-balanced survey of recent advances in software engineering approaches to the design and analysis of realistic large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS). The chapters included are devoted to various techniques and methods used to cope with the complexity of real-world MAS. Reflecting the importance of agent properties in today's software systems, the power of agent-based software engineering is illustrated using examples that are representative of successful applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2020, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in October 2020. The 29 regular and 17 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They deal with the application and validation of agent-based models, methods, and technologies in a number of key applications areas, including: advanced models and learning, agent-based programming, decision-making, educa-tion and social interactions, formal and theoretic models, health and safety, mobility and the city, swarms and task allocation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2015, held as part of the 10th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2015, in Grenoble, France, in June 2015. The 14 full papers and one short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on tuple-based coordination, coordinating ensembles, constraints, agent-oriented techniques and shared spaces.