The general question addressed in this book How can human organizational principles be used for multi-agent architectures? is answered by an exploration of the possibilities to design multi-agent systems as artificial organizations.Key topics of this book:- a framework for multi-agent system design, based on human organizational notions and principles for distributed intelligent systems design- Coordination mechanisms in the form of Problem Solving Methods , which can assist Managers and agent engineers in reasoning about coordination- the Five Capabilities (5C) model which is a conceptual framework bases on a generalization of typical agent intelligence competences, such as autonomy , interaction , pro-activeness and reactiveness - a multi-agent architecture capable of (semi)automatic reuse of Problem Solving Methods- ontology-based communication , in which the meaning and intention of message contents in agent communication is specified in message content ontologies .