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

[Amit Chopra]

Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit a paper to COIN at AAMAS. The paper submission
deadline has been extended to Feb 6.
Best
Amit

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

February 6, 2013: paper submission deadline
March 6, 2013: acceptance notification
March 20, 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)