Multi-Agent Systems. Theories, Languages and Applications [electronic resource] : 4th Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, July 13, 1998, Proceedings /

Team Formation by Self-Interested Mobile Agents -- Conception, Behavioural Semantics and Formal Specification of Multi-agent Systems -- Learning Message-Related Coordination Control in Multiagent Systems -- Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning System Integrating Exploitation- and Exploration-Oriented Learning -- Motivated Behaviour for Goal Adoption -- Physically Based, Self-Organized Cellular Automata -- Service Contract Negotiation – Agent-Based Support for Open Service Environments -- An Awareness-Based Model for Agents Involved in Reporting Activities -- : A Language for Modelling and Designing Agent-Based Intelligent Systems -- Programming Internet Based DAI Applications in Qu-Prolog -- Design of an Agent-Based, Multi-user Scheduling Implementation -- A Team of Agents Cooperating for Intelligent Tutoring -- Secure Information Gathering Agent for Internet Trading.