We encourage the submission of proposals for programming languages and tools that provide specific programming constructs to facilitate the implementation of the essential concepts used in multi-agent system analysis and specifications (e.g., mental attitudes, distribution, and social interaction). We also welcome submissions describing significant multi-agent applications, as well as agent programming tools that allow the integration of agents with legacy systems. Further, we are particularly interested in approaches or applications that show clearly the added-value of multi-agent programming, and explain why and how this technology should be adopted by designers and programmers both in academia and industry.

Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Programming Languages for multi-agent systems
• Extensions of traditional languages for multi-agent programming
• Theoretical and practical aspects of multi-agent programming
• Computational complexity of MAS
• Semantics for multi-agent programming languages
• High-level executable multi-agent specification languages
• Algorithms, techniques, or protocols for multi-agent issues (e.g., coordination, cooperation, negotiation)
• Agent communication issues in multi-agent programming
• Implementation of social and organisational aspects of MAS
• Formal methods for specification and verification of MAS
• Verification tools for implementations of MAS
• Agent development tools and platforms
• Generic tools and infrastructures for multi-agent programming
• Interoperability and standards for MAS
• Programming mobile agents
• Safety and security for mobile MAS deployment
• Fault tolerance and load balancing for mobile MAS
• Application areas for multi-agent programming languages
• Applications using legacy systems
• Programming MAS for Grid-based applications
• Programming MAS for the Semantic Web
• Deployed (industrial-strength) MAS
• Benchmarks and testbeds for comparing MAS languages and tools