[agents] Call for Papers: COINE at AAMAS 2020: International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems

[Christopher Frantz]

COINE 2020: The International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations,
Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems


 

COINE 2020 <https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2020-new-zealand/>  is
collocated with AAMAS 2020 <https://aamas2020.conference.auckland.ac.nz/> ,
held in Auckland (NZ) in May 2020. 

Submission deadline: 5th February 2020 (more details below)

The pervasiveness of “open systems” raises a range of challenges and
opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems. However, achieving and maintaining a “good” society is
difficult to achieve as the participating entities (including human users),
their modes of interaction or the intended purpose of the system may change
over time. Moreover, in the case of open multi-agent systems, the autonomy
of the agents can work against the effectiveness of the society. As a
further trajectory of influence, coordination techniques such as distributed
ledger technology can increase the autonomy and complexity of these open
systems as a whole and challenge their governance. There is therefore a need
for tools and techniques for articulating interactions in order to make the
system more effective in attaining collective goals, more certain for
participants or more predictable.

Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms and ethics are five key
governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems. This
workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination, Organizations,
Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series that ran at various
conferences including AAMAS (12 times), IJCAI, AAAI and ECAI since 2006, and
produced 12 volumes of post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence.

Continuing this tradition, the goal of the COINE workshop is to bring
together researchers in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems working on
the scientific and technological aspects of social coordination,
organizational theory, normative MAS, artificial or electronic institutions,
norm-aware and ethical agents.

We invite submissions that address any of the following aspects:

*	mathematical, logical, computational, philosophical and pragmatic
issues related to the COINE elements;
*	modelling, animation and simulation techniques for open MAS;
*	tools, prototypes and actual working systems;
*	experimental investigation of the effectiveness of COINE
technologies;
*	challenging or innovative ideas relevant to the field.

 

The workshop complements the main AAMAS program by allowing a more relaxed
and in-depth discussion of MAS from a social perspective and has proven to
be an event that encourages debate, and fosters collaboration among
researchers in these topics.

A specific emphasis of this year’s iteration of COINE lies on the response
to the wider uptake of COINE technologies within and across AAMAS
communities, such as social robotics and reinforcement learning. To leverage
a broader understanding on how COINE-related themes are employed in these
research disciplines, we will invite established researchers from the
respective fields in order to highlight their perspectives on and adoption
of COINE theory and technologies. Building on those insights, we will use
this workshop to provide a platform to discuss the potentially varying
viewpoints and facilitate the exploration of synergies as well as
collaborative opportunities across community boundaries.

COINE will inherit COIN’s B-rating on the Computing Research and Education
Association of Australasia (CORE) conference ranking list
<http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/>
http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/. COIN holds a B4 rating by the
Qualis ranking from CAPES (Brazil).


Important Dates


*	Paper submission: February 5, 2020
*	Author notifications: March 15, 2020
*	Camera-ready deadline: March 24, 2020
*	Workshop: May 9 or 10, 2020


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 site at:  <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2020>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2020

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 2020 registrants in electronic form.

As with previous COIN workshops, COINE will publish post-proceedings in
Springer’s LNCS series. Authors will be invited to submit revised and
extended versions of their paper for consideration in these
post-proceedings.

Revised papers must take into account the discussion held during the
workshop; hence, only papers that are presented during the workshop will be
considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume.

For further details and updates, please refer to the workshop website:
<https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2020-new-zealand/>
https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2020-new-zealand/

Kind regards,

Andrea Aler Tubella (Umeå University, SE)
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, NZ)
Christopher Frantz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)

 

 

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