OAMAS 08

Multi-agent systems such as formal organizations, electronic institutions and computational economies have to adapt to environmental, social and economic change, and that adaptation happens at several levels at once: the environment may be reorganised by adding or removing resources; the membership may change as agents leave, arrive or are allocated to different roles; and the roles themselves may adapt, in their eligibility conditions and in the permissions, obligations, authorities, entitlements, responsibilities and institutional powers attached to them. OAMAS asked for work on exactly that *organised* adaptation, as opposed to unintended, emergent modification of a MAS. Publication of the accepted papers as a Springer LNAI volume was planned.