[agents] CFP: 15th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

[Amit Chopra]

Friends and colleagues,

Please consider submitting a contribution.

Best,
Amit Chopra
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15th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations,
Institutions and Norms, at the 11th International Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (COIN at AAMAS 2013)
 (www.staff.scinece.uu.nl/~dignu101/coin2013/)

May 6 or 7, 2013,
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

January 30th, 2013: paper submission deadline
February 27th, 2013: acceptance notification
March 6th, 2013: camera-ready copies
May 6 or 7, 2013: COIN at AAMAS 2013 Workshop

AIMS and SCOPE

Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms are four key
governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems,
and the COIN workshops constitute a space for debate and exploration
of these four elements that are central in the design and use of open
systems.

We seek to attract high-quality papers addressing mathematical,
logical, computational, philosophical and pragmatic issues related to
those four aspects; also papers concerned with modelling, animation
and simulation techniques for these types of multi-agent systems; as
well as papers that discuss tools, prototypes and actual working
systems. Papers that present formal treatment of topics as well as
those that provide experimental support to claims are welcome. We also
encourage authors to report on their experience with systems that have
been deployed, applications based on regulated open multi-agent
systems, and tools for their development. Of particular interest for
the workshop are those papers that articulate a challenging or
innovative view.

Without limiting the range of traditional topics addressed in the
workshop, in the upcoming edition we would like to challenge the
community to submit the latest results in a special purpose track on
large-scale multi-agent organizations. To that extend, we broaden the
topics of the workshop with the following:
*       models and implementations of (social) norms, regulations,
commitments and laws (especially their combination) in the cognitive
decision making of agents;
*       formal models and implementations of groups, teams, organizations
and institutions and their combination highlighting the differences,
overlaps and connections;
*       the role of organizational aspects in (social) simulations and
(serious) games.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

* logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination, norms, and
protocols in organizations and institutions;
* tools for implementing or simulating organizations and institutions;
* law of open multi-agent systems: regulatory compliance, penalty and
sanctions, dispute resolution and conflict prevention;
* agent societies and communities, social networks, electronic
institutions and virtual organizations;
* formal lifecycle models: formation, maintenance, evolution and
dissolution of organizations, institutions and normative multi-agent
systems;
* formal methods for specifying coordination and organizational
structures; models for verification, validation and visualization;
* autonomic institutions and self-organization in multi-agent systems;
* frameworks and protocols for organized and organizational adaptation;
* mechanisms for governance of common pool resources;
* agent environments: physical and institutional resources for
physical capability and institutional power;
* discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and institutions;
* mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in virtual worlds;
participatory simulation.
* reports on implemented systems.


VENUE

The workshop will be part of the AAMAS 2013 (Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems) workshop programme, and will take place at St.
Paul, Minnesota, USA in May 2013.

PROCEEDINGS

Preliminary proceedings will be distributed to AAMAS 2013 registrants
in electronic form. Printed workshop notes will NOT be made available
to workshop participants. As with previous COIN workshops, revised and
extended versions of selected papers will be published in a Springer
LNCS volume. That volume will be 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

For preparation of papers to be submitted 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
15 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=coin2013

ORGANIZATION

The program committee will include the following people (preliminary
listing). See the workshop web page for updates.

* Sergio Alvarez-Napagao (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy)
* Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France)
* Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC/CNR, Italy)
* Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (UCPEL, Brazil)
* Luciano Coutinho (Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Brazil)
* Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
* Jomi-Fred Hubner (University of Blumenau, Brazil)
* Christian Lemaitre (Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico)
* Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA)
* John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
* Simon Miles (Kings College London, UK)
* Eugenio Oliveira (University of Porto, Portugal)
* Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Sascha Ossowski (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
* Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
* Alessandro Ricci (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Juan-Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
* Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago, New Zealand)
* Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (IRIT, France)
* Yao-hua Tan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Viviane Torres da Silva (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
* Pankaj Telang (North Carolina State University, USA)
* Catherine Tessier (ONERA, France)
* Gennaro di Tosto (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
* Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
* Javier Vazquez-Salceda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
* Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
* Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK)
* George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)
* Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey)



COIN at AAMAS 2013 Co-Chairs:

* Frank Dignum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
* Amit Chopra(University of Lancaster, United Kingdom)