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<p class="MsoNormal">[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE),
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<p class="MsoNormal">co-located with AAMAS 2022 (Virtual)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">COINE 2022 is co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and
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<p class="MsoNormal">Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) held virtually between 9-13 May, 2022 (<a href="https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/">https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2022-auckland">https://coin-workshop.github.io/coine-2022-auckland</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Overview<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The pervasiveness of “open systems” raises a range of challenges and
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<p class="MsoNormal">opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and
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<p class="MsoNormal">multi-agent systems. However, achieving and maintaining a “good” society
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<p class="MsoNormal">is difficult to achieve as the participating entities (including human
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<p class="MsoNormal">users), their modes of interaction or the intended purpose of the system
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<p class="MsoNormal">may change over time. Moreover, in the case of open multi-agent systems,
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<p class="MsoNormal">the autonomy of the agents can work against the effectiveness of the
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<p class="MsoNormal">society. As a further trajectory of influence, coordination techniques
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<p class="MsoNormal">such as distributed ledger technology can increase the autonomy and
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<p class="MsoNormal">complexity of these open systems as a whole and challenge their
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<p class="MsoNormal">governance. There is therefore a need for tools and techniques for
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<p class="MsoNormal">articulating interactions in order to make the system more effective in
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<p class="MsoNormal">attaining collective goals, more certain for participants or more
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<p class="MsoNormal">predictable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms and ethics are five key
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<p class="MsoNormal">governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems. This
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<p class="MsoNormal">workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination, Organizations,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series that ran at
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<p class="MsoNormal">various conferences including AAMAS (12 times), IJCAI, AAAI and ECAI
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<p class="MsoNormal">since 2006 (see Workshop Series Website), and produced 13 volumes of
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<p class="MsoNormal">post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Continuing this tradition, the goal of the COINE workshop is to bring
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<p class="MsoNormal">together researchers in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
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<p class="MsoNormal">working on the scientific and technological aspects of social
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<p class="MsoNormal">coordination, organizational theory, normative MAS, artificial or
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<p class="MsoNormal">electronic institutions, norm-aware and ethical agents.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite submissions that address any of the following aspects:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> - mathematical, logical, computational, philosophical and pragmatic
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<p class="MsoNormal">issues related to COINE;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - modelling, animation and simulation techniques for open MAS;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - tools, prototypes and working systems;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - experimental investigation of the effectiveness of COINE
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<p class="MsoNormal">technologies;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - challenging or innovative ideas relevant to the field;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - methodologies for the development of trustworthy AI; and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - trustworthy AI education within the scope of MAS.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop complements the main AAMAS program by allowing a more
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<p class="MsoNormal">relaxed and in-depth discussion of MAS from a social perspective and has
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<p class="MsoNormal">proven to be an event that encourages debate, and fosters collaboration
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<p class="MsoNormal">among researchers in these topics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A specific emphasis of this year’s iteration of COINE lies on the
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<p class="MsoNormal">response to growing interest in the concept of norms applied to social
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<p class="MsoNormal">and human-centric AI, so we will also aim to establish better mutual
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<p class="MsoNormal">awareness between COINE and that community by making explicit references
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<p class="MsoNormal">in our scope for research in development methodologies and education of
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<p class="MsoNormal">trustworthy AI.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To leverage a broader understanding on how COINE-related themes are
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<p class="MsoNormal">employed in these research disciplines, we will invite established
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<p class="MsoNormal">researchers from the respective fields in order to highlight their
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<p class="MsoNormal">perspectives on and adoption of COINE theory and technologies. Building
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<p class="MsoNormal">on those insights, we will use this workshop to provide a platform to
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<p class="MsoNormal">discuss the potentially varying viewpoints and facilitate the
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<p class="MsoNormal">exploration of synergies as well as collaborative opportunities across
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<p class="MsoNormal">community boundaries.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">COINE inherited COIN’s B-rating on the Computing Research and Education
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<p class="MsoNormal">Association of Australasia (CORE) conference ranking list <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/">http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/</a>. COIN holds a B4 rating by
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<p class="MsoNormal">the Qualis ranking from CAPES (Brazil).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT DATES (These dates are subject to further updates)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paper submission: January 30, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author notifications: February 27, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready deadline: March 4, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Workshop: May 9 or 10, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructions for Authors<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For preparation of papers please follow the instructions for authors
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<p class="MsoNormal">available at the Springer LNCS Web page. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We solicit three types of papers:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Full research papers (16 pages)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Short research papers (10 pages) – These 'early-innovation' papers are work-in-progress papers and these will be reviewed with an emphasis on novelty/originality of the idea.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">• Blue sky ideas (up to 16 pages) – These papers have the same scope of the blue sky ideas track of AAMAS 2022 (see
<a href="https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/calls/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/">
https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/calls/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/</a>), focussing on the COINE topics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The page lengths mentioned above include figures and references. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For submission of papers, please use the EasyChair site at:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2022">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2022</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should
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<p class="MsoNormal">the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the
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<p class="MsoNormal">workshop to present the work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proceedings<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Preliminary proceedings will be available before the conference. They
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<p class="MsoNormal">will also be distributed to AAMAS 2022 registrants in electronic form.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As with previous COIN(E) workshops, COINE will publish post-proceedings
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<p class="MsoNormal">in Springer’s LNCS series. Authors will be invited to submit revised and
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<p class="MsoNormal">extended versions of their paper for consideration in these <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">post-proceedings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">COINE-2022 CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nirav Ajmeri (University of Bristol, UK)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andreasa Morris-Martin (University of Bath, UK)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago, NZ)<o:p></o:p></p>
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