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CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems (COIN@MALLOW2010) Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France 30th August – 2nd September, 2010 AIMS and SCOPE The development of complex AI systems with heterogeneous and diverse knowledge is a challenge. System components must interact, coordinate and collaborate to manage scale and complexity of task environments targeting persistency and maybe, evolution of systems. Managing scale and complexity requires organized intelligence; in particular intelligence manifested in organizations of agents, by individual strategies or collective behaviour. System architects have to consider: the inter-operation of heterogeneously designed, developed or discovered components (agents, objects/artefacts, services provided in an open environment); inter-connection which cross legal, temporal, or organizational boundaries; the absence of global objects or centralised controllers; the possibility that components will not comply with the given specifications; and embedding in an environment which is likely to change, with possible impact on individual and collective objectives. The convergence of the requirement for intelligence with these operational constraints demands: coordination: the collective ability of heterogeneous and autonomous components to arrange or synchronise the performance of specified actions in sequential or temporal order; rational and open organization: a formal structure supporting or producing intentional forms of coordination, capable of managing changes in the environment in which it operates; institution: an organization where (inter alia) the performance of designated actions by empowered agents produces conventional outcomes; and norms: standards or patterns of behaviour in an institution established by decree, agreement, emergence, and so on. The automation and distribution of intelligence is the subject of study in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems; the automation and distribution of intelligence for coordination, organization, institutions and norms is the specialised interest of COIN@MALLOW2010. The COIN@MALLOW 2010 workshop is part of the COIN series of workshops. WORKSHOP GOALS The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems and other related fields (like web services, semantic web and service oriented architectures), working on the scientific and technological aspects of organizational theory, electronic institutions, norms and computational economies from an organizational or institutional perspective. We seek to attract high-quality papers addressing all mathematical, logical and computational perspectives of, modelling, animation and simulation techniques for these types of multi-agent systems, addressing also their actual implementation. Through various information and opinion exchange mechanisms before, during and after the workshop, we hope to generate new ideas, consolidate and develop an (already) active community, highlight future challenges and opportunities, and lead/define (at least part of) the future research agenda. TOPICS Topics of particular interest for COIN@MALLOW2010 will include: Organizations, institutions and norms for managing scale, openness and complexity Organizations, institutions and norms and Service Oriented Computing/Architectures; Logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination and norms, implementing or simulating organizations and institutions; Formal lifecycle models: formation, maintenance, and dissolution of organizations and institutions; Laws in electronic institutions: regulatory compliance, penalty and sanctions, dispute resolution and conflict prevention; Agent environments: physical and institutional 'resources' for physical capability and institutional power; Formal methods for specifying coordination and organizational structures; models for verification, validation and visualisation; Non-normative behaviour, error-recovery, and reliable computing with unreliable components; Frameworks and protocols for organised and organisational adaptation; Discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and institutions; Analysis of issues in the emergence, evaluation (as fit-for-purpose), compliance to and evolution of norms; Mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in embedded systems and virtual worlds. VENUE The workshop will be part of the MALLOW2010 (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) workshop programme, and will take place at Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France. Full details about the organization of MALLOW2010 are available at http://mallow2010.emse.fr/index.html. PROCEEDINGS Preliminary proceedings will be available at the workshop. As with previous COIN workshops, revised and extended versions of papers presented in the COIN workshops within 2010 (this one and COIN@AAMAS2010 ) will be published in a single Springer LNCS volume. The revised versions 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. IMPORTANT DATES June 13, 2010: Submission of Papers July 08, 2010: Notification of Acceptance/ Rejection July 30, 2010: Submission of Camera-Ready Copies 30 Aug – 02 Sept 2010: Workshop Takes Place INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Given that the post-proceedings will be published in Springer LNC the papers should be formatted following Springer-Verlag's guidelines, available here. The length of each paper including figures and references should not exceed 16 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. 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. For submission of papers, please use: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinmallow2010 WORKSHOP OFFICIALS Workshop Chairs: Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland) George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece) Tentative Programme Committee: Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece) Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France) Rafael Bordini (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Amit Chopra (University of Trento, Italy) Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande FURG, Brazil) Marina De Vos (University of Bath, UK) Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Jomi Fred Hubner (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico) Henrique Lopes Cardoso (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Eric Matson (Purdue, USA) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Pablo Noriega (IIIA-CSI, Spain) Eugenio Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Sascha Ossowski (URJC, Spain) Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK) Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College, London) Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA Kostas Stathis (Royal Holloway, University of London) Viviane Torres da Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminente, Brazil) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna, Italy) Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Birna van Riemsdijk (Delf University of Technology, The Netherlands) Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) Javier Vazquez-Salceda (University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, Sweden) Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey Coin Steering Committee: Guido Boella (University of Torino, Italy) Olivier Boissier (ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France) Nicoletta Fornara (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Christian Lemaitre (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico) Eric Matson (Purdue University, USA) Pablo Noriega (Artficial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain) Sascha Ossowski (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK) Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, UK) Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) Javier Vázquez Salceda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) George Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece) γβ --------------- George Vouros Professor, Univ. of the Aegean Dean of School of Sciences Head AI-Lab President of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering Karlovassi, Samos 83200, Greece Phone: +30 2273 0 82226 Fax: +30 2273 0 82229 URL: http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/lecturers/georgev/