COIN @ AAMAS'07 Call for Papers

[Marina De Vos]

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              COIN @ AAMAS'07 Call for Papers

                 The fifth workshop on
        Coordination, Organization, Institutions
                and Norms in agent systems

                  Workshop at AAMAS 2007
                     May 12|13, 2007
                    Estoril, Portugal 
   
                http://www.emse.fr/coin08
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Multi-agent systems are often understood as complex entities where a
multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or
collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of
organisation, or set of norms or conventions that articulate or
restrain interactions in order to make them more effective in
attaining those goals, more certain for participants or more
predictable. The engineering of effective coordination or regulatory
mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open complex multi-agent
systems.

In recent years, social and organisational aspects of agency have
become a major issue in MAS research specially in applications on
Service Oriented Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence.
These applications enforce the need for using these aspects in order
to ensure social order within these environments. Openness,
heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose new demands on traditional
MAS interaction models. Therefore, the view of coordination and
control has to be expanded to consider not only an agent-centric
perspective but also a societal and organisation-centric views.

The overall problem of analysing the social, legal, economic and
technological dimensions of multi-agent organisations provides
theoretical and interdisciplinary research questions at different
levels of abstraction. Consequently, this workshop provides a space
for the convergence of concerns and developments from MAS researchers
that have been involved with these issues from the complementary
perspectives of coordination, organisations, institutions and norms.

The COIN workshop is a continuation of the workshop with the same name
at
AAMAS'07, AAMAS'06, and of the ANIREM and OOOP workshops held in
AAMAS'05. A twin event of COIN has been collocated with ECAI'06 in
Trento and with MALLOW'007 in Durham.


Theme and Topics
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The topics of interest of the COIN workshop in AAMAS'08 are concerned
to Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms in the context
of MAS. Relevant topics include, but are no limited to:

   * Models, ontologies and standards of COIN (Coordination,
     Organisation, Institutions and/or Norms) for MAS.
   * Social science background for COIN, e.g.: roles, authority,
     motivation, social power and other social relationships and
attitudes.
   * Languages for COIN: expressiveness vs efficiency.
   * Coordination and interaction conventions, technologies and
artifacts.
   * Methodologies to develop MAS based on COIN concepts.
   * Software frameworks and tools.
   * Scalability and openness.
   * Simulation, analysis and verification.
   * Industrial applications, case studies, and experimental work.
   * Integration and impact of COIN in other domains, e.g: service
     oriented computation, intelligent environments, B2B, P2P.

Papers describing ongoing work and position papers are welcome.


Proceedings
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Proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with previous COIN
workshops, revised and extended versions of the papers of the two 2008
editions will be published in a single Springer LNCS volume (pending
confirmation). The revised versions must take into account the
discussion held during the workshop, hence, only those papers that are
presented during the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the
post-proceedings volume.


Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline: January 25 2008
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: February 25 2008
Camera-ready copies due: March 5 2008
Workshop Date: May 12 or May 13 2008

Please notice that authors will have a very short time to take into
account the reviewers comments and to send their final contributions
to the workshop if the paper is accepted. Therefore, we strongly
encourage possible authors to be aware of this critical period
(February 25 - March 5).


Preparation and Submission of Papers
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For preparation of papers to be submitted please follow the
instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The length of each paper including figures and references may not
exceed 15 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted
in PDF format.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that,
should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend
the conference to present the work. 

For submission of papers please refer to the COIN webpage:
http://www.emse.fr/coin08


COIN Steering Committee
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Christian Lematre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Eric Matson (Wright State University, USA)
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Jaime Sichman (University of So Paulo, Brazil)
Javier Vazquez Salceda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) 


Workshop Chairs
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Jomi Fred Hubner, University of Blumenau, Brazil
  jomi at inf.furb.br
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
  olivier.boissier at emse.fr

Programme Committee
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Alessandro Ricci (Universit di Bologna, Italy)
Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos,
Greece)
Andrea Omicini (Universit di Bologna, Italy)
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (UCPEL, Brazil)
Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Catherine Tessier (ONERA, France)
Catholijn Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Christian Lematre (Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (IRIT, France)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
Dan Corkill (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Daniel Moldt (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Eric Matson (Wright State University, USA)
Eric Platon (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Insitute of Informatics, Japan)
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Jaime Sichman (University of So Paulo, Brazil)
Javier Vzquez-Salceda (University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Juan Antonio Rodrguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Liz Sonenberg (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Luca Tummolini (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Olivier Gutknecht (France)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Sascha Ossowski (URJC, Spain)
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Vincent Louis (Orange Labs, France)
Virginia Dignum (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Viviane Torres Da Silva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)