Engineering Societies in the Agents World III: Third International Workshop, ESAW 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 16-17, 2002, Revised Papers

Views.- A Discussion of Two Major Benefits of Using Agents in Software Development.- Signs of a Revolution in Computer Science and Software Engineering.- Models.- Rationality, Autonomy and Coordination: The Sunk Costs Perspective.- A Normative and Intentional Agent Model for Organisation Modelling.- Simulating Computational Societies.- Co-Fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems.- A Schema for Specifying Computational Autonomy.- Activity Theory as a Framework for MAS Coordination.- An Operational Framework for the Semantics of Agent Communication Languages.- Access-as-you-need: A Computational Logic Framework for Accessing Resources in Artificial Societies.- Motivating Participation in Peer to Peer Communities.- Engineering.- ADELFE: A Methodology for Adaptive Multi-agent Systems Engineering.- Evaluating Multi-agent System Architectures: A Case Study Concerning Dynamic Resource Allocation.- Engineering Agent Systems for Decision Support.- Co-ordinating Heterogeneous Interactions in Systems Composed of Active Human and Agent Societies.- Modelling and Design.- SABPO: A Standards Based and Pattern Oriented Multi-agent Development Methodology.- Modelling a Multi-agent System Environment.- Towards a Methodology for Coordination Mechanism Selection in Open Systems.- Specification by Refinement and Agreement: Designing Agent Interaction Using Landmarks and Contracts.- An Agent and Goal-Oriented Approach for Virtual Enterprise Modelling: A Case Study.