The papers selected for this volume present advances in software engineering approaches to develop dependable high-quality multi-agent systems. These papers describe experiences and techniques associated with large multi-agent systems in a wide variety of problem domains. They cover fault tolerance, exception handling and diagnosis, security and trust, verification and validation, as well as early development phases and software reuse.

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Fault Tolerance.- On Fault Tolerance in Law-Governed Multi-agent Systems.- On Developing Open Mobile Fault Tolerant Agent Systems.- Exception Handling and Diagnosis.- Challenges for Exception Handling in Multi-Agent Systems.- Exception Handling in Context-Aware Agent Systems: A Case Study.- Exception Diagnosis Architecture for Open Multi-Agent Systems.- Security and Trust.- SMASH: Modular Security for Mobile Agents.- Reasoning About Willingness in Networks of Agents.- Verification and Validation.- Towards Compliance of Agents in Open Multi-agent Systems.- Towards an Ontological Account of Agent-Oriented Goals.- Early Development Phases and Software Reuse.- Improving Multi-Agent Architectural Design.- Objects as Actors Assuming Roles in the Environment.- A Framework for Situated Multiagent Systems.