CFP: COIN at AAMAS 2009

[Alexander Artikis]

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		    CALL FOR PAPERS
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"Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms" (COIN)
			May 2009
	    A satellite workshop of AAMAS 2009

	  http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/coin@aamas2009

AIMS & SCOPE:
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Multi-agent systems (MAS) are complex artifacts in which a multitude
of autonomous software agents interact, pursuing individual and/or
collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of
organization, a set of norms or conventions that articulate or
restrain interactions in order to enable agents to achieve their
goals. The engineering of effective coordination or regulatory
mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open, complex MAS.
In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have
become a major issue in MAS research, especially in applications for
Service-Oriented Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence.
These applications enforce the need for using social and
organizational aspects in order to ensure social order. Openness of
MAS poses 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 societal and
organization-centric views.
The workshop aims to bring together the topics of Coordination,
Organization, Institutions and Norms. These topics have become an
established area of agent research and a significant number of
influential papers on these topics have been appearing in AAMAS and
other agent conferences and workshops. The series of COIN workshops
are thus aimed at consolidating and expanding the subject by providing
focused events in which researchers from different communities
participate.

THEMES & TOPICS:
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Topics of interest for COIN at AAMAS09 include (but are not limited to):
-Modeling (dynamic) multi-agent organizations.
-Agent communities, electronic institutions and virtual organizations.
-Languages for norms: expressiveness VS efficiency.
-Norms, institutions and organizations: authority, (institutional)
power, sanctions, contracts, trust, reputation.
-Issues in regulated MAS implementation.
-Simulation, analysis and verification of (dynamic) regulated MAS.
-Scaling and control issues in (dynamic) agent organizations.
-Organized Adaptation of regulated MAS: protocols and frameworks,
-Models of norm (law, policy) change: norm revision, conflict
detection, norm updates.
-Legal implications of organized adaptation.

COIN at AAMAS09 merges the COIN workshop series with the workshop on
Organized Adaptation for Multi-Agent Systems (OAMAS). Therefore,
*papers that explore the dynamic aspects of norms, organizations and
institutions are particularly welcome* in COIN at AAMAS09.

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Submission Deadline : January 25, 2009
Notification:  February 25, 2009
Final Version Submission Deadline: March 5, 2009

PROCEEDINGS & SUBMISSION:
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Informal proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with
previous COIN workshops, selected, revised and extended versions of
the papers of the 2009 COIN editions will be published in a single
Springer LNCS volume. The length of each paper, including figures and
references, may not exceed 16 pages. Further formatting guidelines and
instructions on how to submit a paper may be found at the workshop web
page.