[agents] call for papers COIN at MALLOW 2010 deadline 13 June 2010

[nicoletta.fornara at usi.ch]

                              C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

                               11th International Workshop
                             on Coordination, Organization,
                    Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

                                  COIN at MALLOW2010

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


Conference Website: http://ai-lab-webserver.aegean.gr/coin@mallow2010/index.htm
COIN at MALLOW 2010 workshop is part of the COIN series of workshops http://www.pcs.usp.br/~coin/
MALLOW 2010 web site http://mallow2010.emse.fr/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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. Full Paper Submission:    June 13, 2010
. Acceptance Notification:  July 08, 2010
. Camera-Ready Submission:  July 30, 2010


PROCEEDINGS
Revised and extended versions of  papers presented in COIN at MALLOW2010 and COIN at AAMAS2010 workshops will be published
in a single Springer LNCS volume.

TOPICS
· 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;
· Laws in 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.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Nicoletta Fornara
University of Lugano, Switzerland
nicoletta.fornara at usi.ch

George Vouros
University of the Aegean, Greece
georgev at aegean.gr