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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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<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: February 20, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author notifications: March 13, 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Camera-ready deadline: March 20, 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 in the LNCS format:<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. Information about the paper type should be included at the end of the title of the paper – (Full), (Short)
or (Blue Sky ideas).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For submission of papers, please use the EasyChair site at: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2022">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coine2022</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Submitted papers will be reviewed on a “single-blind” basis by at least two reviewers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<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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