[agents] 2nd CFP: 17th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN at AAMAS-14)

[Oren, N.]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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   17th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms
   http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/n.oren/pages/COIN14/

    Co-located with AAMAS 2014 (http://aamas2014.lip6.fr)
         May 5-9, 2014, Paris, France
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The pervasiveness of open systems raises a range of challenges and opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems and in their contribution to human and artificial societies. Open systems comprise loosely-coupled entities interacting within a society, often with some overall measures of quality or efficiency. However, achieving and maintaining a ‘good’ society, such as through establishing and enforcing societial norms and policies, is difficult to achieve. This is because of the complexity of real societies, and because the (autonomous) participating entities, their modes of interaction, or the intended purpose of the system may change over time. There remains a need for tools and techniques for articulating or regulating interactions in order to make the system more effective in attaining collective goals, more certain for participants, or more predictable.

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 the four aspects of COIN. We also encourage the submission of work in progress papers, and demonstration papers illustrating software tools, platforms or applications of the various facets of COIN to real world problems. Standard research papers should be up to 16 pages in length, while demonstration/application papers and those describing work in progress should be no longer than 6 pages in the Springer LNCS format.

This iteration of the workshop will also feature a session covering the state of the art in COIN and surveying current challenges in the field.

Topics of Interest
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A non-exhaustive list  of the high-level topics are given below.

- logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination and norms, implementing or simulating organizations and institutions
- law of open multi-agent systems
- agent societies and communities, social networks, electronic institutions and virtual organizations
- formal methods for specifying, verifying, validating and visualising COIN;
- autonomic institutions and self-organization in MAS;
- frameworks and protocols for organized and organizational adaptation;
- mechanisms for governance of common pool resources;
- discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and institutions;
- mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in virtual worlds;
- computers as social actors;
- norm-aware agents;
- participatory simulation;
- benchmarks and problem sets;
- COIN and emergent behaviour

Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline   January 22nd, 2014
Acceptance notification     February 19th, 2014
Camera-ready copies due     March 19th, 2014
COIN at AAMAS 2014 workshop    May 5/6, 2014

Organizing Committee:
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Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen
Pankaj Telang, North Carolina State University

Provisional Programme Committee
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Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar  IIIA-CSIC
Huib Aldewereld                 Delft University of Technology
Sergio Alvarez-Napagao          Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Guido Boella                    University of Torino
Olivier Boissier                ENS Mines Saint-Etienne
Patrice Caire                   University of Luxembourg
Amit Chopra                     Lancaster University
Luciano Coutinho                Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA)
Marina De Vos                   University of Bath
Frank Dignum                    Utrecht University
Virginia Dignum                 Delft University of Technology
Nicoletta Fornara               Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
Akin Gunay                      Nanyang Technological University
Chris Haynes                    King's college London
Jomi Fred Hubner                Federal University of Santa Catarina
Joris Hulstijn                  Delft University of Technology
Eric Matson                     Purdue University
John-Jules Meyer                Utrecht University
Simon Miles                     King's College London
Felipe Meneguzzi                PUCRS
Pablo Noriega                   IIIA-CSIC
Eugénio Oliveira                Universidade do Porto
Andrea Omicini                  Università di Bologna
Julian Padget                   University of Bath
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu     University of Otago
Alessandro Ricci                University of Bologna
Christophe Sibertin-Blanc       University for Social Sciences, Toulouse
Jaime Sichman                   University of Sao Paulo
Yao-Hua Tan                     Delft University of Technology
Pankaj Telang                   North Carolina State University
M. Birna Van Riemsdijk          Delft University of Technology
Wamberto Vasconcelos            University of Aberdeen
Javier Vazquez-Salceda          UPC
Harko Verhagen                  Stockholm University/KTH
George Vouros                   University of Piraeus

Submission and Publication
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Authors should submit full research papers (maximum length 16 pages); work-in-progress or demonstrator papers (maximum length 6 pages) as PDFs formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. All submissions should take place via the Easychair system

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coin2014

As for previous iterations of the workshop, we intend to invite authors to submit accepted papers to be published in a formal post-proceedings by Springer.

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Senior LecturerTel: +44 (0) 1224 274162
Department of Computing ScienceFax: +44 (0) 1224 273422
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