Call for Papers
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The pervasiveness of open systems raises a range of challenges and
opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems. Open systems comprise loosely coupled entities
interacting within a society that usually has some overall measures of
quality or efficiency. However, achieving and maintaining a "good"
society is difficult to achieve as the participating entities, 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. There is therefore a need of theories, tools and techniques
for articulating and/or regulating interactions in order to make the
system more effective in attaining collective goals, and providing
guarantees (or predictability) for components/participants of open
systems.
We seek to
attract high-quality
papers addressing mathematical,
logical, computational and pragmatic aspects of the
workshop themes,
including reports on experiences with
agent-oriented systems that have been adapted for
service-oriented environments.
Of particular interest are those papers reporting
on challenging
or innovative views
on issues within the
workshop themes, papers proposing new ideas, and position
papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- formal methods,
logics, languages and tools for the specification,
verification, implementation and simulation of norms,
coordination, organizational structures and institutions;
- law of open distributed systems: regulatory compliance;
- agent
societies, social networks,
electronic institutions and virtual organizations;
- formation, maintenance,
evolution and dissolution of
organizations,institutions and normative multi-agent systems;
- autonomic institutions and self-organization in multi-agent systems;
- frameworks
and protocols for
organized and organizational
adaptation;
- mechanisms for flexible and adaptive governance in service-oriented applications;
- discovery,
openness and inter-operation
in organizations and
institutions;
- mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in virtual worlds; participatory simulation.
- reports on implemented systems
For details on important dates and the submission procedure,
please follow the links.
Preliminary workshop
proceedings will be published
by IEEE Computer Society Press. 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 the COIN@AAMAS workshop to be held in May
2011. 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. 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.