[agents] CFP COIN at WI-IAT'11 (abstract submission: April 1)

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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

                        COIN at WI-IAT'11 

            http://mmi.tudelft.nl/coin-wi-iat2011/

    13th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, 
               Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

        Held at WI-IAT'11 in Lyon, France on August 22nd 2011

            *** deadline abstract submission: April 1 ***

SCOPE

The pervasiveness  of open  systems raises a  range of  challenges and
opportunities for  technologies in the  area of autonomous  agents and
multi-agent  systems. Open systems  comprise loosely  coupled entities
interacting within a society that usually has some overall measures of
quality or  efficiency.  However,  achieving and maintaining  a "good"
society is  difficult to achieve as the  participating entities, their
modes of interaction or the  intended purpose of the system may change
over  time. Moreover,  in the  case of  open multi-agent  systems, the
autonomy  of the  agents can  work  against the  effectiveness of  the
society.  There is therefore a  need of theories, tools and techniques
for articulating  and/or regulating interactions in order  to make the
system  more effective  in attaining  collective goals,  and providing
guarantees  (or predictability)  for  components/participants of  open
systems.

Coordination,  organizations,  institutions  and  norms are  four  key
governance elements  for the  regulation of open  multi-agent systems,
and  the  COIN  workshop  creates   a  space  for  lively  debate  and
exploration of these four elements  that are central to the design and
deployment of open systems. Furthermore, in the last three years there
has been much interest from the Service Engineering community to adopt
agent-based  coordination and  organisational approaches  in  order to
bring   flexibility   and   adaptiveness   to   new   generations   of
Service-Oriented applications. Thus the  workshop topics are also very
relevant  to   the  broader  Service  Engineering   and  Semantic  Web
communities.

WORKSHOP GOAL

We  seek  to attract  high-quality papers   addressing   mathematical, 
logical, computational and  pragmatic aspects  of the workshop themes,
including  reports  on experiences with  agent-oriented  systems  that 
have been adapted for service-oriented environments. 

Of particular interest are those  papers  reporting on  challenging or  
innovative   views  on  issues  within   the  workshop  themes, papers 
proposing new ideas, and position papers. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

These include, but are not limited to:

* formal methods,  logics, languages and tools  for the specification,
  verification, implementation and  simulation of norms, coordination,
  organizational structures and institutions;

* law of open distributed systems: regulatory compliance;

* agent  societies,  social   networks,  electronic  institutions  and
  virtual organizations;

* formation, maintenance, evolution  and dissolution of organizations,
  institutions and normative multi-agent systems;

* autonomic institutions and self-organization in multi-agent systems;

* frameworks   and   protocols   for  organized   and   organizational
  adaptation;

* mechanisms for flexible  and adaptive governance in service-oriented
  applications;

* discovery,  openness   and  inter-operation  in   organizations  and
  institutions;

* mixed human-agent  coordination and institutions  in virtual worlds;
  participatory simulation.

* reports on implemented systems

IMPORTANT DATES

abstract submission:  April 1, 2011
paper submission:     April 29, 2011
notification:         June 1, 2011
camera-ready:         June 10, 2011
workshop:             August 22, 2011

If you will not be  able to  submit an abstract on time, please send an 
intention to submit through email to the COIN at WI-IAT'11 co-chairs.

VENUE

The workshop will be part of the WI-IAT'11  (IEEE/WIC/ACM International 
Conference on Web Intelligence & IEEE/WIC/ACM International  Conference 
on  Intelligent Agent  Technology)  workshop  programme, and  will take 
place at the Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France.

PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary  workshop proceedings  will be  published  by  IEEE Computer 
Society Press.  As with previous  COIN workshops,  revised and  extended 
versions of selected papers will published in a Springer LNCS volume  in 
combination  with the post-proceedings  of the COIN at AAMAS workshop to be 
held in May 2011. That volume is published as part of The  Coordination, 
Organizations,  Institutions, and Norms  in Agent  Systems  book series, 
with  all the indexing,  referencing and follow-up  benefits  associated 
with an  established line of  publication. Revised papers 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.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Abstracts  and  papers  are to  be  submitted through  the   WI/IAT 2011  
Workshop Paper Submission system. The length  of submitted papers should  
not exceed 4  pages in the IEEE-CS  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://liris.cnrs.fr/~wi-iat11/IAT_2011/papers-submission/

ORGANIZATION

COIN Steering Committee:

Alexander Artikis (Bational Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece)
Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA)
Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Javier Vazquez Salceda (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
Viviane Torres da Silva (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)

COIN at WI-IAT'11 Co-Chairs:

M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
m.b.vanriemsdijk at tudelft.nl

Javier Vazquez Salceda (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
jvazquez at lsi.upc.edu

Program Committee:

Huib Aldewereld, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Alexander Artikis, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece
Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC/CNR, Italy
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, UCPEL, Brazil
Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Virginia Dignum, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Nicoletta Fornara, Lugano, Switzerland
Jomi Fred Hubner, University of Blumenau, Brasil
Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Eric Matson, Purdue University, USA
John-Jules Meyer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Simon Miles, Kings College London, UK
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Andrea Omicini, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Sascha Ossowski, URJC, Spain
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Alessandro Ricci, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc, IRIT, France
Jaime S. Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, France
Leendert van der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden
Marina de Vos, Bath, UK
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey