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Recent multi-agent systems (MAS) are built using an open, distributed design. These systems involve various challenges of monitoring geographically-distributed and independently-built multiple agents. Monitoring by overhearing [3] has been found to provide a powerful monitoring approach particularly suited for open distributed MAS settings. Here, an overhearing agent monitors the exchanged communications between the system's agents. It uses these observed communications to independently assemble and infer the needed monitoring information.Although overhearing can be used in many commercial and military implementations, the research in that direction has only been limited. Many previous investigations applied overhearing in context of specific applications leaving the general problem of overhearing unattained. In my research, I attempt to provide a comprehensive theoretical model for overhearing and then, based on this model, to systematically cover various aspects related to overhearing.