Agents and Computational Autonomy : Potential Risks and Solutions This book originates from the First International Workshop on Computational Autonomy Potential Risks Solutions AUTONOMY 2003 held in Melbourne Australia in July 2003 as part of AAMAS 2003. In addition to 7 revised selected workshop papers the volume editors solicited 14 invited papers by leading researchers in the area. The workshop papers and the invited papers present a comprehensive and coherent survey of the state of the art of research on autonomy capturing various theories of autonomy perspectives on autonomy in different kinds of agent based systems and practical approaches to dealing with agent autonomy