Taken from the second Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, the papers in this volume cover a wide range of multi-agent systems issues including: methodologies; co-operation; conflict resolution; applications; mobility; adaptation; negotiation; and implementations.

The CoMoMAS methodology and environment for multi-agent system development.- Design patterns for the development of multiagent systems.- Modelling extendible mobile agents.- Making and breaking engagements: An operational analysis of agent relationships.- Cloning for intelligent adaptive information agents.- ACACIA: An agency based collaboration framework for heterogeneous multiagent systems.- A multi-agent cooperative reasoning system for amalgamated knowledge bases.- Detecting conflicts in multi-agent systems.- Peruasion as a form of inter-agent negotiation.- Methodologies of solution synthesis in distributed expert systems.- Implementing an automated reasoning system for multi-agent knowledge and time.- Application of MAS in implementing rational IP routers on the priced internet.- A sentinel approach to fault handling in multi-agent systems.