[agents] [EXTENDED DEADLINE Feb 12, 2024] COINE at AAMAS 2024 : International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems

[Luis Gustavo NARDIN]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

      International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions,
           Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems
                            COINE 2024
                          to be held in
                  Auckland, May 6 or 7, 2024 (TBD)
           https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2024-auckland/

                        Co-located with the
               The 23rd International Joint Conference on
                Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
                            AAMAS'2024
            https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline                                 **February 12, 2024 AOE (Extended)**
Authors Notification                                March 4, 2024
Camera-ready                                        March 25, 2024
COINE 2024 Workshop                                 May 6 or 7, 2024 (TBD)
Preparation of post-proceedings (Springer LNAI)     2nd half of 2024

ABOUT COINE
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The pervasiveness of "open systems" raises a range of challenges and
opportunities for developing technologies in the area of autonomous agents
and multi-agent systems (MAS). In open MAS, artificial and human autonomous
agents, their modes of interaction and the pursued goal of the system may
change over time. Additionally, the agents' autonomy, which can be
influenced and amplified by coordination techniques, can work against the
system's effectiveness. The success of these systems relies on effective
governance to maintain an equilibrium between the autonomy of the
(artificial and human) agents and the predictability of the system. Hence,
there is a need for methods, techniques, mechanisms and tools that can
balance the equilibrium between these two forces to make the system mode
effective in attaining its purposeful goals.

Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms and ethics are five key
governance elements for the regulation of open MAS. The goal of the 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/policy-aware and ethical agents.

We seek to attract papers that address:
   - mathematical, logical, computational, philosophical, legal, and
     pragmatic issues related to the challenges identified above;
   - modeling, animation and simulation techniques for governance of
     open MAS;
   - tools, prototypes and actual working open MAS involving COINE
     technologies;
   - experimental investigation of the effectiveness of COINE technologies;
   - challenging or innovative ideas relevant to the field.

The COINE workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination,
Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series
that ran at various conferences and produced 16 volumes of post-proceedings
in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
(https://www2.pcs.usp.br/~coin/coin_springer.html).

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics is one of the
11 areas of interest for AAMAS. This workshop complements the AAMAS main
program by allowing a more relaxed and focused discussion of MAS from a
social perspective. Previous editions of COINE have proven to foster
collaboration among researchers in the relevant topics.

TARGET AUDIENCE
===============
Continuing its 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.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
=====================
The instructions for authors is available at the Springer LNCS web page
(https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

We admit three types of papers formatted according to the Springer LNCS
style:
  - Full research papers (16 pages)
  - Short research papers (10 pages) : 'Early-innovation' papers are
    work-in-progress papers and these will be reviewed with an emphasis
    on novelty/originality of the idea.
  - Blue sky ideas (up to 16 pages) : These papers have the same scope of
    the blue sky ideas track of AAMAS 2024 focused on COINE topics
    (see https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz/calls/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/)

The page lengths include figures and references. All papers must be written
in English and submitted in PDF format. Information about the paper type
should be included at the end of the title of the paper – (Full), (Short)
or (Blue Sky ideas).

Papers must be electronically submitted before the submission deadline
through the workshop conference system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coineaamas2024.

All contributions will be single-blind peer-reviewed by at least two
independent PC members. The evaluation criteria of contributions will be
based on originality, quality, clarity, and its relevance to the workshop.

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. Authors of accepted papers will be allowed to
present their work online or in-person conditional to they register to the
workshop. Presentations will be delivered in the New Zealand Time Zone.

PROCEEDINGS
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The workshop proceeding including the accepted papers will be available
before the conference.

Similar to previous COINE workshops, COINE 2024 will publish
post-proceedings in Springer’s LNCS series. Authors will be invited to
submit a revised and extended version of their papers for consideration to
be published in the post-proceedings.

COMMITTEES
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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- Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
- Nathan Lloyd (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
- Luis Gustavo Nardin (MINES Saint-Étienne, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Aishwaryaprajna (University of Exeter, UK)
- Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA)
- Frank Dignum (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Javier Vazquez-Salceda (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Jithin Cheriyan (Independent Researcher, New Zealand)
- Jomi F. Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
- Juan A. Rodríguez Aguilar (IIIA - CSIC, Spain)
- Juan Carlos Nieves (Umeå University, Sweden)
- Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
- Maiquel de Brito (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
- Maite Lopez-Sanchez (University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Marina de Vos (University of Bath, UK)
- Matteo Baldoni (University of Torino, Italy)
- Nicoletta Fornara (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
- Nirav Ajmeri (University of Bristol, UK)
- Olivier Boissier (MINES Saint-Étienne, France)
- Pablo Noriega (IIIA - CSIC, Spain)
- Peter Lewis (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
- Pinar Yolum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
- Stefan Sarkadi (Kings College London, UK)
- Stefania Costantini (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
- Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago, New Zealand)