Technical issues to be addressed include, but are not restricted to: action selection and planning adaptation and learning agent architectures agent-based software engineering agent communication languages artificial market systems and electronic commerce autonomous robots believability communication, collaboration, and interaction of humans and agents conversational agents coordinating multiple agents designing agent systems - methodologies & software engineering expert assistants evolution of agents human-like qualities of synthetic agents information agents instructability integration and coordination of multiple activities knowledge acquisition and management lessons learned from deployed agents lifelike qualities meta-modeling and meta-reasoning middle-agents (e.g., matchmakers, brokers, routers) mobile agents modeling the behavior of other agents models of emotion, motivation, or personality multi-agent teams multi-agent communication, coordination, and collaboration multi-agent simulation, verification, and validation network agents organization of agent societies privacy and agents real-time performance standards for agents synthetic agents system support for the implementation of agents user modeling