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MABS Techniques for MAS.- Engineering Emergent Behaviour: A Vision.- Employment Decisions Supporting Organizations of Autonomous Agents.- Towards Verification and Validation in Multiagent-Based Systems and Simulations: Analyzing Different Learning Bargaining Agents.- Weak Interaction and Strong Interaction in Agent Based Simulations.- Economics, Exchange, and Influence in VirtualWorlds.- Using Qualitative Exchange Values to Improve the Modelling of Social Interactions.- Bilateral Tradings with and without Strategic Thinking.- Monetary Policy and Banks' Loan Supply Rules to Harness Asset Bubbles and Crashes.- Social Change: Exploring Design Influence.- Social Prejudice: Cognitive Modelling and Simulation Findings.- MABS Techniques for RealWorld Modelling.- A Methodology for Eliciting and Modelling Stakeholders' Representations with Agent Based Modelling.- Modelling a European Decision Making Process with Heterogeneous Public Opinion and Lobbying: The Case of the Authorization Procedure for Placing Genetically Modified Organisms on the Market.- Evaluation of Usability of Dial-a-Ride Systems by Social Simulation.- The Strategy Hypercube: Exploring Strategy Space Using Agent-Based Models.- Understanding and Classifying MABS.- A Classification of Paradigmatic Models for Agent-Based Social Simulation.