PAAMS, the International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems is an evolution of the International Workshop on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS is an international yearly tribune to present, to discuss, and to disseminate the latest developments and the most important outcomes related to real-world applications. It provides a unique opportunity to bring multi-disciplinary experts, academics and practitioners together to exchange their experience in the development of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the 2009 edition. These articles capture the most innovative results and this year's trends: Assisted Cognition, E-Commerce, Grid Computing, Human Modelling, Information Systems, Knowledge Management, Agent-Based Simulation, Software Development, Transports, Trust and Security. Each paper has been reviewed by three different reviewers, from an international committee composed of 64 members from 20 different countries. From the 92 submissions received, 35 were selected for full presentation at the conference, and 26 were accepted as posters.

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A Holonic Approach to Warehouse Control.- Developing Home Care Intelligent Environments: From Theory to Practice.- Distributing Functionalities in a SOA-Based Multi-agent Architecture.- Mobile Agents for Critical Medical Information Retrieving from the Emergency Scene.- INGENIAS Development Assisted with Model Transformation By-Example: A Practical Case.- geneSetFinder: A Multiagent Architecture for Gathering Biological Information.- Agent Design Using Model Driven Development.- A Tool for Generating Model Transformations By-Example in Multi-Agent Systems.- Modelling Trust into an Agent-Based Simulation Tool to Support the Formation and Configuration of Work Teams.- Multi-agent Simulation of Investor Cognitive Behavior in Stock Market.- How to Avoid Biases in Reactive Simulations.- Generating Various and Consistent Behaviors in Simulations.- Foreseeing Cooperation Behaviors in Collaborative Grid Environments.- MAMSY: A Management Tool for Multi-Agent Systems.- A Multi-Agent System Approach for Algorithm Parameter Tuning.- Relative Information in Grid Information Service and Grid Monitoring Using Mobile Agents.- A Multi-Agent System for Airline Operations Control.- Agent-Based Approach to the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem.- The Undirected Rural Postman Problem Solved by the MAX-MIN Ant System.- Performance Visualization of a Transport Multi-agent Application.- A Software Architecture for an Argumentation-Oriented Multi-Agent System.- A SOMAgent for Identification of Semantic Classes and Word Disambiguation.- Multiagent Systems in Expression Analysis.- Intentions in BDI Agents: From Theory to Implementation.- An Intrusion Detection and Prevention Model Based on Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Signatures and Reaction Rules Ontologies.- An Attack Detection Mechanism Based on a Distributed Hierarchical Multi-agent Architecture for Protecting Databases.- Trusted Computing: The Cornerstone in the Secure Migration Library for Agents.- Negotiation of Network Security Policy by Means of Agents.- A Contingency Response Multi-agent System for Oil Spills.- V-MAS: A Video Conference Multiagent System.- Online Scheduling in Multi-project Environments: A Multi-agent Approach.- Experiencing Self-adaptive MAS for Real-Time Decision Support Systems.- Induced Cultural Globalization by an External Vector Field in an Enhanced Axelrod Model.- Towards the Implementation of a Normative Reasoning Process.- Negotiation Exploiting Reasoning by Projections.- A JADE-Based Framework for Developing Evolutionary Multi-Agent Systems.- A Multi-agent Approach for Web Adaptation.- A Multi-tiered Approach to Context and Information Sharing in Intelligent Agent Communities.- A Multiagent Distributed Design System.- A Realistic Approach to Solve the Nash Welfare.- A Study of Bio-inspired Communication Scheme in Swarm Robotics.- Artificial Intelligence for Picking Up Recycling Bins: A Practical Application.- An Access Control Scheme for Multi-agent Systems over Multi-Domain Environments.- Bridging the Gap between the Logical and the Physical Worlds.- Building Service-Based Applications for the iPhone Using RDF: A Tourism Application.- Designing a Visual Sensor Network Using a Multi-agent Architecture.- Designing Virtual Organizations.- Dynamic Orchestration of Distributed Services on Interactive Community Displays: The ALIVE Approach.- Efficiency in Electrical Heating Systems: An MAS Real World Application.- Hardware Protection of Agents in Ubiquitous and Ambient Intelligence Environments.- Management System for Manufacturing Components Aligned with the Organisation IT Systems.- MASITS A Tool for Multi-Agent Based Intelligent Tutoring System Development.- Multi-agent Reasoning Based on Distributed CSP Using Sessions: DBS.- Natural Interface for Sketch Recognition.- Performance of an Open Multi-Agent Remote Sensing Architecture Based on XML-RPC in Low-Profile Embedded Systems.- Privacy Preservation in a Decentralized Calendar System.- Protected Computing Approach: Towards the Mutual Protection of Agent Computing.- Toward a Conceptual Framework for Multi-points of View Analysis in Complex System Modeling: OREA Model.- Using Hitchhiker Mobile Agents for Environment Monitoring.- Using Multiagent Systems and Genetic Algorithms to Deal with Problems of Staggering.- VisualChord: A Personal Tutor for Guitar Learners.