Extended Deadline: COIN @ MALLOW 2010

[George Vouros]

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 >News: Extended Deadline and Call for position papers

Please find the CfP attached in PDF
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COIN at MALLOW 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent  
Systems @ MALLOW 2010  (COIN at MALLOW2010)

Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France
30th August – 2nd September, 2010

http://ai-lab-webserver.aegean.gr/coin@mallow2010/index.htm

AIMS and SCOPE
The development of complex AI systems with heterogeneous and diverse  
knowledge is a challenge. System components must interact, coordinate  
and collaborate to manage scale and complexity of task environments  
targeting persistency and maybe, evolution of systems.
Managing scale and complexity requires organized intelligence; in  
particular intelligence manifested in organizations of components, by  
individual strategies or collective behaviour.  System architects have  
to consider: the inter-operation of heterogeneously designed,  
developed or discovered components (agents, objects/artefacts,  
services provided in an open environment); 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;  
rational and open organization: a formal structure supporting or  
producing intentional forms of coordination, capable of managing  
changes in the environment in which it operates; 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 MALLOW2010.
The COIN at MALLOW 2010 workshop is part of the COIN series of workshops.

WORKSHOP GOALS
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in  
autonomous agents and multi-agent systems and other related fields  
(like web services, semantic web and service oriented architectures),  
working on the scientific and technological aspects of organizational  
theory, electronic institutions, norms and computational economies  
from an organizational or institutional perspective. We seek to  
attract high-quality papers addressing all mathematical, logical and  
computational perspectives of, modelling, animation and simulation  
techniques for  these types of multi-agent systems, addressing also  
their actual implementation.
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.

TOPICS
Topics of particular interest for COIN at MALLOW2010 will include:
* Organizations, institutions and norms for managing scale, openness  
and complexity
* Organizations, institutions and norms and Service Oriented Computing/ 
Architectures;
* 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;
* 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;
* Frameworks and protocols for organised and organisational adaptation;
* 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.

NEW>> Given that we would like to have a very interactive workshop  
where authors can compare and discuss their ideas we invite also the  
submission of "position papers" on COIN topics (please add a footnote  
in the title of the paper to state that it is a position paper). These  
papers will be included in the preliminary proceedings distributed at  
the meeting. Revised and extended versions of those papers may be  
submitted in order to go through another round of the review process  
and being considered for the 2010 COIN Volume that will be published  
in the Springer LNCS series.

VENUE
The workshop will be part of the MALLOW2010 (Autonomous Agents and  
Multi-Agent Systems) workshop programme, and will take place at  
Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France.
Full details are available at http://mallow2010.emse.fr/index.html.

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 (this one an COIN at AAMAS2010 ) 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
•  June 16, 2010: Submission of Papers (Extended)
•  July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection
•  July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies
•  30 Aug – 02 Sept, 2010: Workshop

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Given that the post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNC the  
papers should be formatted following Springer-Verlag's guidelines,  
available here. The length of each paper including figures and  
references should not exceed 16 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 workshop to present the work.  
For submission of papers, please use: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinMALLOW2010

WORKSHOP OFFICIALS
Workshop Chairs:
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Programme Committee:
Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos,  
Greece)
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Rafael Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Amit Chopra (University of Trento, Italy)
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande FURG, Brazil)
Marina De Vos (University of Bath, UK)
Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Jomi Fred Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Eric Matson (Purdue, USA)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSI, Spain)
Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Andrea Omicini (Universita di Bologna)
Sascha Ossowski (URJC, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Munindar P. Singh (North Carolina State University, USA)
Viviane Torres da Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminente, Brazil)
Kostas Stathis (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy)
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Birna van Riemsdijk (Delf University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Javier Vazquez-Salceda (University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Mario Verdicchio (University of Bergamo)
Danny Weyns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey

Coin Steering Committee:
Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA)
Pablo Noriega (Artficial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain)
Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Javier Vázquez Salceda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)

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