Foreword / James J. Odell -- Preface / Brian Henderson-Sellers, Paolo Giorgini -- 1. Agent-oriented methodologies : an introduction / Paolo Giorgini, Brian Henderson-Sellers -- 2. Tropos : a requirements-driven methodology for agent-oriented software / Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, John...

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