[agents] COOS 2014 - CFP

[Saad Alqithami]

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The 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative Online Organizations
“COOS’14”

In conjunction with AAMAS 2013
May 5/6, 2014 | Paris, France
(http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas/coos14)

CALL FOR PAPER
This workshop aims to bring together experts interested in the theory and
practice of computational models of network organizations. The objective is
to advance understanding and crafting of network organizations. Substantial
amount of research work is ongoing in distributed knowledge management.
This workshop intends to emphasize the operational elements of various
networks that facilitate elements of network organization. Papers
describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques indicating
future directions are also encouraged. Social as well as cognitive
foundations surrounding network organizations are of special interest. We
invite theoretical and pragmatic contributions from specialists with
capacities for explaining or predicting changes in the life cycle of online
organizations. Explorations of social capital embedded in collaboration
networks that play central role for their continued functioning and
maintenance are within our scope.

WORKSHOP AREAS
The following is a partial list of areas of interest. Papers may address
one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel
limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable,
provided should fit in one of the following main topic areas:

• Agent-based collaborative environments
• Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
• Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
• Computational models of organizations
• Collaborative infrastructures
• Collaborative services and filtering
• Collective intelligence
• Collaborative games and digital communities
• Collective Benefits of political fallouts and economic externalities
• Collaborative social networks
• Distributed technologies for group collaboration
• Globalized networks and grid alliances
• Human/robot collaboration
• Human-centric based group collaboration
• Networked organizations
• Network-centric organizations
• Networked individualism
• Social capital
• Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration
• Social networks and community discovery
• Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration
• Virtual organizations
• Web-based collaboration


IMPORTANT DATES:
  Submission Deadline: January 29, 2014
  Notification to authors: March 1, 2014
  Workshop Date: May 5/6, 2014

SUBMISSIONs:
COOS 2014 seeks high-quality submissions of full papers limited to 6 pages
in length for position papers and 10 pages in length for full papers
following AAMAS general instructions. For more details and related topics,
please visit the workshop website: http://www2.cs.siu.edu/~mas/coos14.

CONTACT
For inquiries please send an e-mail to coos.workshop at gmail.com