First Call for papers: COIN at AAMAS2010

[Marina De Vos]

Apologies for multiple posts;
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The AAMAS2010 Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and
Norms (COIN)
Toronto, {10th | 11th} May 2010


AIMS and SCOPE

>From “the internet of things” and virtual worlds to the “smarterplanet”,
through grid, cloud and stream computing, the world is becoming
increasingly instrumented and inter-connected. Managing the resultant
scale and complexity requires intelligence; in particular an
intelligence that is manifested by individual strategies or collective
behaviour. Furthermore, system architects have to consider:
the inter-operation of heterogeneously designed, developed or discovered
components;
inter-connection which cross legal, temporal, or organizational
boundaries;
the absence of global objects or centralised controllers;
the possibility that components will not comply with the given
specifications; and
embedding in an environment which is likely to change, with possible
impact on individual and collective objectives.

The convergence of the requirement for intelligence with these
operational constraints demands:
coordination: the collective ability of heterogeneous and autonomous
components to arrange or synchronise the performance of specified
actions in sequential or temporal order;
organization: a formal structure supporting or producing intentional
forms of coordination;
institution: an organization where (inter alia) the performance of
designated actions by empowered agents produces conventional outcomes;
and
norms: standards or patterns of behaviour in an institution established
by decree, agreement, emergence, and so on.

The automation and distribution of intelligence is the subject of study
in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; the automation and
distribution of intelligence for coordination, organization,
institutions and norms is the specialised interest of COIN at AAMAS2010.


WORKSHOP GOALS

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in autonomous
agents and multi-agent systems working on the scientific and
technological aspects of organizational theory, electronic institutions
and computational economies from an organizational or institutional
perspective. We seek to attract high-quality papers addressing all
mathematical, logical and computational perspectives of, and modelling,
animation and simulation techniques for, these types of multi-agent
systems. Through various information and opinion exchange mechanisms
before, during and after the workshop, we hope to generate new ideas,
consolidate and develop an (already) active community, highlight future
challenges and opportunities, and lead/define (at least part of) the
future research agenda. 

TOPIC OF INTEREST

Topics of particular interest for COIN at AAMAS2010 will include:
* COIN for internet of things, 3-D Internet, green computing, and
smarterplanet;
* logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination and norms,
implementing or simulating organizations and institutions;
* formal lifecycle models: formation, maintenance, and dissolution of
organizations and institutions;
* autonomic institutions, self-organization, and general self-*
properties;
* law of electronic institutions: regulatory compliance, penalty and
sanctions, dispute resolution and conflict prevention;
* agent environments: physical and institutional 'resources' for
physical capability and institutional power;
* formal methods for specifying coordination and organizational
structures; models for verification, validation and visualisation;
* non-normative behaviour, error-recovery, and reliable computing with
unreliable components;
* agent societies and communities, social networks, electronic
institutions and virtual organizations;
* frameworks and protocols for organised and organisational adaptation;
* institutional mechanisms for governance of common pool resources;
* discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and
institutions;
* analysis of issues in the emergence, evaluation (as fit-for-purpose),
compliance to and evolution of norms;
* mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in embedded systems
and virtual worlds.

VENUE

The workshop will be part of the AAMAS2010 (Autonomous Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems) workshop programme, and will take place at the
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel in downtown Toronto, Canada. Full details
are available at http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/

PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with
previous COIN workshops, revised and extended versions of the papers of
both the two 2010 workshops (there will be a subsequent event in the
Autumn) will be published in a single Springer LNCS volume. Those
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

Submission of contributions to workshops:	FEBRUARY, 2, 2010	
Workshop paper acceptance notification:		MARCH 2, 2010
Revised accepted paper submission:		MARCH 12, 2010
COIN at AAMAS2010 WORKSHOP:			MAY 10|11, 2010 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Although the post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS, the
preliminary proceedings will follow a different format, namely IFAAMAS
style. Submissions to COIN at AAMAS 2010 should be a maximum of 8 pages. If
using Latex, please use this style file and see this example of how it
is used. For Microsoft Word users, a template is also available. Please
note that the submissions should be formatted for American letter paper
size, and that your submission must be without page numbers.

The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed
8 pages in this format. 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 workshop to present the work.

For submission of papers, please use:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinaamas2010

ORGANISATION


Workshop Chairs
Dr Jeremy Pitt
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College
London
SW7 2BT UK
Email: j.pitt[IsAt]imperial.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6318, Fax: +44
(0)20 7594 6274

Dr Marina De Vos
Department of Computer Science, University of Bath,
BA2 7AY UK
Email: mdv[IsAt]cs.bath.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)1225 385053, Fax: +44 (0)1225
383493 

Program Committee
Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos,
Greece)
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (UCPEL, Brazil)
Catherine Tessier (ONERA, France)
Catholijn Jonker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (IRIT, France)
Dan Corkill (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Daniel Moldt (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Eric Matson (Purdue, USA)
Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Insitute of Informatics, Japan)
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Jomi Fred Hubner (University of Blumenau, Brazil)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Luca Tummolini (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
Maite Lopez-Sanchez (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (URJC, Spain)
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)


COIN Steering Committee:
Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico) 
Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA) 
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) 
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) 
Javier Vazquez Salceda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland) 
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France) 
Pablo Noriega (Instituto de Pesquisa em InteligÍncia Artificial, Spain) 
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) 
Virginia Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) 
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)