Invited Panelists

• Van Parunak: Chair (introduction)
• Scott DeLoach: Moving Multi-Agent Systems from Research to Practice (abstract, presentation)
• Monique Calisti: Opportunities to Support Wide-spread Adoption of Software Agents (abstract)
• Danny Weyns: How to Get Multi-Agent Systems Accepted in Industry? (abstract, presentation)
• Michael Georgeff: The MAS – SE Gap: Bridging the Divide (abstract, presentation)
• Onn Shehory: Wrap up (presentation)

Invited Position Statements

• The Future of Agent-Based Software Engineering: Goals and Verification & Validation are Key, Michael Winikoff (abstract, presentation)
• Industry Traction for MAS Technology: Would a Rose by any Other Name Smell as Sweet? Aditya Ghose (abstract, presentation)
• FOSE-MAS 2008: SWOT-analysis and its implications, Paul Valckenaers, Paul Verstraete and Bart Saint Germain (abstract, presentation)
• Agreement Technologies: Towards a New Programming Paradigm for Agent-Oriented Technologies, Juan Rodriguez (abstract, presentation)
• Towards an Agent-Oriented Paradigm, Jorge J. Gomez-Sanz, Fabien Michel, Eric Platon, Alessandro Ricci (abstract, presentation)

Selected Position Statements

• Domain characteristics lead choice for MAS approach, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum (abstract)
• Brief position statement for FOSE-MAS 2008, Brian Henderson-Sellers (abstract)

All Statements

• All statements collected in one file (abstracts)