Practical applications of agents and MAS: Methods, techniques and tools for open MAS

This paper presents a brief summary of the post-proceedings of the special session on practical applications held in the framework of IWANN 2009. The special session was supported by the THOMAS (TIN2006-14630-C03-03) project and aims at presenting the results obtained in the project, as well as at exchanging experience with other researchers in this field. This work has been supported by the MEC TIN2006-14630-C03-03 project.