[agents] CFP: COIN at AAMAS2015 Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

[Pablo Noriega]

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19th Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

http://coin-aamas2015.iiia.csic.es

A workshop co-located with the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems AAMAS2015 (http://www.aamas2015.com/)

 4-8 May, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey
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OBJECTIVES
The pervasiveness of open systems raises a range of challenges and opportunities for research and technological development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Open systems comprise loosely coupled entities interacting within a social space. These entities join the social space in order to achieve some goals that are unattainable by agents in isolation. However, when those entities are autonomous, they might misbehave and, furthermore ---in open systems ---one may not know what entities will be active beforehand, when they may become active or when these entities may leave the system. The quid in the design and construction of open systems is to devise mechanisms that foster interactions that are conducive to achieve individual or collective goals. 
      Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms are four key governance elements, and the COIN workshops constitute a space for debate and exploration of these four elements for the design and use of open systems.
      We seek to attract high-quality papers and an active audience to debate mathematical, logical, computational, methodological, implementational, philosophical and pragmatic issues related to the four aspects of COIN.
In particular we seek to attract:
• papers that present formal treatment of topics
• papers that present interdisciplinary treatment of topics
• papers that provide experimental support to claims.
• papers that discuss tools, prototypes and actual working systems.
• papers that propose novel and challenging positions.
• papers that report on the experience of deployment and application of regulated open MAS.
• papers concerned with modelling, animation and simulation techniques for these types of multi-agent systems

Of particular interest for the workshop are those papers that articulate a challenging or innovative view.

IMPORTANT DATES
February 11 Deadline for submitting to workshop
March 10 Decision
March 19 Camera ready
May 4 or 5 Workshop

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
For preparation of papers 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 16 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
      For submission of papers, please use the Easychair: COIN at AAMAS-2015 (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinaamas15)
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.

PROCEEDINGS
Preliminary proceedings will be available before the conference. They will also be distributed to AAMAS 2011 registrants in electronic form.
      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 a second COIN workshop to be held in 2015. 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.
      COIN is a CORE B workshop
      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.

COIN at AAMAS2015 CO-CHAIRS
* Murat Sensoy (murat.sensoy @ ozyegin . edu.tr)
* Pablo Noriega (pablo @ iiia.csic . es)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Mohsen Afsharchi (University of Zanjan, IR)
* Felipe Meneguzzi (PUCRS, BR)
* Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", GR)
* John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, NL)
* Guido Boella (University of Torino, IT)
* Simon Miles (King's College London, UK)
* Didac Busquets (Imperial College, UK)
* Daniel Moldt (University of Hamburg, DE)
* Patrice Caire (U. Luxembourg, LU)
* Tim Norman (Aberdeen, UK)
* Henrique Cardoso (U of Porto, Pt)
* Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, PT)
* Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-CNR, IT)
* Andrea Omicini (Universita di Bologna, IT)
* Amit Chopra (Lancaster U, UK)
* Nir Oren (University ofAberdeen, UK)
* Rob Christiaanse (TU delft, NL)
* Sascha Ossowski (URJC, ES)
* Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (UCPEL, BR)
* Simon Parsons (U of Liverpool, UK)
* Luciano Coutinho (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, BR)
* Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, UK)
* Natalia Criado (Liverpool John MooresU, UK)
* Alessandro Ricci (Universita di Bologna, IT)
* Mehdi Dastani (U of Utrecht, NL)
* Juan-Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, ES)
* Geeth de Mel (IBM TJ Watson, US)
* Antonino Rotolo (U of Bolonia, IT)
* Nicoletta Fornara (Lugano, CH)
* Tony Savarimuthu (Otago, NZ)
* Amineh Ghorbani (TU Delft, NL)
* Christophe Sibertin-Blanc (IRIT-CNRS, FR)
* Aditya Ghose (U of Wollongong, AU)
* Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, ES)
* Davide Grossi (U Liverpool, UK)
* Liz Sonenberg (University of Melbourne, AU)
* Jomi-Fred Hubner (University of Blumenau, BR)
* Charalampos Tampitsikas (U Lugano, CH)
* Ozgur Kafali (Royal Holloway,Univ. of London, UK)
* Pankaj Telang (Cisco, US)
* Anup Kalia (North Carolina StateUniversity, US)
* John Thangarajah (RMIT, AU)
* Martin Kollingbaum (University ofAberdeen, UK)
* Luca Tummolini (ISTC-CNR, IT)
* Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, MX)
* Leender van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, LU)
* Victor Lesser (U. Massachusetts Amherst, US)
* Harko Verhagen (StockholmUniversity, SE)
* Maite Lopez Sanchez (U of Barcelona, ES)
* Dani Villatoro (BBVA Data & Analytics, ES)
* Emiliano Lorini (IRIT-CNRS, FR)
* George Vouros (University of Piraeus, GR)
* Samhar Mahmoud (Kings, London, UK)


COIN STEERING COMMITTEE
Huib Aldewereld
Frank Dignum
Pablo Noriega
Viviane Torres da Silva
Olivier Boissier
Virginia Dignum
Julian Padget
Wamberto Vasconcelos
Tina Balke
Nicoletta Fornara
Birna van Riemsdijk
Javier Vazquez-Salceda
Stephen Cranefield
Eric Matson
Jaime Sichman
Marina de Vos
George Vouros