[agents] 2nd CFP: COIN at IJCAI09

[Kostas Stathis]

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Call for papers
COIN at IJCAI09
8th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, 
Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems 

July 11-13, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Web site: http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/coin@ijcai09 

Overview
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In recent years, social and organisational aspects of 
agency have become important considerations in MAS 
research, especially in applications such as Service-Oriented 
Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In 
addition, the MAS requirements for openness, heterogeneity, 
and scalability pose new demands on traditional interaction 
models in that coordination and control has to be expanded 
to consider societal and organisation-centric views. Within
this context, this workshop seeks to provide a forum for 
the convergence of AI developments from the complementary 
perspectives of coordination, organisations, institutions 
and norms.

Topics 
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Relevant topics include, but are no limited to: 

* Modeling multi-agent organizations.  
* Models and architectures for social agents.  
* Coordination in dynamic and emergent agent organizations.  
* Organization design and monitoring of regulated MAS.  
* Ontologies, methodologies, tools and standards for 
  regulated MAS. 
* Social science background for regulated MAS: Roles, 
  authority, motivation, social power and other social 
  relationships and attitudes.
* Languages for norms:expressiveness VS efficiency. 
* Agent communities, electronic institutions and virtual 
  organizations. 
* Coordination and interaction conventions, technologies 
  and artifacts. 
* Institutional aspects of peer to peer interactions. 
* Issues in regulatory dynamics (creation, evolution, change). 
* Issues in regulated MAS implementation. 
* Simulation, analysis and verification of regulated MAS. 
* Engineering organizations (validation, implementation and 
  tools for agent organizations).  
* Scaling and control issues in agent organizations.  
* Norms, institutions and organizations: authority, power, 
  dependence, sanctions, contracts, trust, reputation as 
  regulating tools for agents within organizations.  
* Application of organizational theory to MAS.
* Organised Adaptation of regulated MAS: protocols and 
  frameworks.  
* Models of norm (law, policy) change: norm revision, 
  conflict detection, norm updates. 
* Simulation, analysis and verification of dynamics of 
  multi-agent organizations.  
* Dynamic, adaptive and emergent organizational structures.  
* Practical applications of agent organization systems. 

Important Dates 
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Deadline for papers submission: March 06, 2009  
Notification about submissions: April 17, 2009  
Camera ready copy: May 08, 2009  

Proceedings and Submission
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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.