The main focus of the research community has been in the development of the concept (of both mental and social attitudes), architecture, engineering, and general approach to the analysis and specification of multi-agent systems. Successful multi-agent systems development is guaranteed only if we can bridge the gap from analysis and design for effective implementation. Multi-Agent Programming: Languages, Tools and Applications presents a number of mature and influential multi-agent programming language, platform, development tools and methodologies, and realistic applications, summarizes the state of the art in a way that is easily accessible for professionals and students of computer science at all levels .