CfP COIN at AAMAS16: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

[Mahmoud, Samhar]

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Call for papers

Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN at AAMAS2016)
(http://ais.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/coin2016)

A workshop co-located with the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016)
(http://www.aamas2016.com/)

May 9 or 10, 2016, in Singapore

OBJECTIVES

The pervasiveness of open systems raises a range of challenges and opportunities for research and technological development in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Open systems comprise loosely coupled entities interacting within a social space. These entities join the social space in order to achieve some goals that are unattainable by agents in isolation. However, when those entities are autonomous, they might misbehave and, furthermore, in open systems one may not know what entities will be active beforehand, when they may become active or when these entities may leave the system. The challenge in the design and construction of open systems is to devise mechanisms that foster interactions that are conducive to achieving individual or collective goals.

Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms are four key governance elements, and the COIN workshops constitute a space for debate and exploration of these four elements for the design and use of open systems.

We seek to attract high-quality papers and an active audience to debate mathematical, logical, computational, methodological, implementational, philosophical and pragmatic issues related to the four aspects of COIN.

In particular we seek to attract:

* papers that present formal treatment of topics,
* papers that present interdisciplinary treatment of topics,
* papers that provide experimental support to claims,
* papers that discuss tools, prototypes and actual working systems,
* papers that propose novel and challenging positions,
* papers that report on the experience of deployment and application of regulated open MAS, and 
* papers concerned with modelling, animation and simulation techniques for these types of multi-agent systems.

Of particular interest for the workshop are those papers that articulate a challenging or innovative view.

COIN is ranked B on the CORE Conference Ranking list: http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/

IMPORTANT DATES

February 1, 2016: Deadline for paper submissions
March 7, 2016: Paper notifications sent
March 10, 2016: Camera-ready copy due
May 9 or 10, 2016: Date of workshop

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

For preparation of papers please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page. The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed 16 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.

For submission of papers, please use the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinaamas16.

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.

PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary proceedings will be available before the conference. They will also be distributed to AAMAS 2016 registrants in electronic form.

As with previous COIN workshops, it is expected that we will have an LNCS postproceedings. In such case, authors will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their paper for consideration for a Springer LNCS volume combining the postproceedings of this workshop with those for a second COIN workshop to be held later in 2016.

Revised papers must take into account the discussion held during the workshop; hence, only papers that are presented during the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

To be announced

COIN STEERING COMMITTEE

Huib Aldewereld
Frank Dignum
Pablo Noriega
Viviane Torres da Silva
Olivier Boissier
Virginia Dignum
Julian Padget
Wamberto Vasconcelos
Tina Balke
Nicoletta Fornara
Birna van Riemsdijk
Javier Vazquez-Salceda
Stephen Cranefield
Eric Matson
Jaime Sichman
Marina de Vos
George Vouros

COIN at AAMAS2016 CO-CHAIRS

Samhar Mahmoud (King's College London, United Kingdom) 
Samhar.mahmoud at kcl.ac.uk

Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) 
scranefield at infoscience.otago.ac.nz