CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   17th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/n.oren/pages/COIN14/    Co-located with AAMAS 2014 (http://aamas2014.lip6.fr)      6, 2014, Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The pervasiveness of open systems raises a range of challenges and opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems and in their contribution to human and artificial societies. Open systems comprise loosely-coupled entities interacting within a society, often with some overall measures of quality or efficiency. However, achieving and maintaining a `good' society, such as through establishing and enforcing societial norms and policies, is difficult to achieve. This is because of the complexity of real societies, and because the (autonomous) participating entities, their modes of interaction, or the intended purpose of the system may change over time. There remains a need for tools and techniques for articulating or regulating interactions in order to make the system more effective in attaining collective goals, more certain for participants, or more predictable. Coordination, organizations, institutions, and norms are four key governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems, and the COIN workshops constitute a space for debate and exploration of these four elements that are central in the design and use of open systems. We seek to attract high-quality papers addressing mathematical, logical, computational, philosophical, and pragmatic issues related to the four aspects of COIN. We also encourage the submission of work in progress papers, and demonstration papers illustrating software tools, platforms or applications of the various facets of COIN to real world problems. Standard research papers should be up to 16 pages in length, while demonstration/application papers and those describing work in progress should be no longer than 6 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Topics of Interest ================== A non-exhaustive list of the high-level topics are given below. - logics, languages and tools for specifying coordination and norms, implementing or simulating organizations and institutions - law of open multi-agent systems - agent societies and communities, social networks, electronic institutions and virtual organizations - formal methods for specifying, verifying, validating and visualising COIN; - autonomic institutions and self-organization in MAS; - frameworks and protocols for organized and organizational adaptation; - mechanisms for governance of common pool resources; - discovery, openness and inter-operation in organizations and institutions; - mixed human-agent coordination and institutions in virtual worlds; - computers as social actors; - norm-aware agents; - participatory simulation; - benchmarks and problem sets; - COIN and emergent behaviour; - Social intelligence Important Dates: ================== Paper submission deadline February 3rd, 2014 Acceptance notification March 1st, 2014 Camera-ready copies due March 19th, 2014 COIN@AAMAS 2014 workshop May 6, 2014 Organizing Committee: ===================== Nir Oren, University of Aberdeen Pankaj Telang, North Carolina State University Provisional Programme Committee =============================== Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar IIIA-CSIC Huib Aldewereld Delft University of Technology Sergio Alvarez-Napagao Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Guido Boella University of Torino Olivier Boissier ENS Mines Saint-Etienne Patrice Caire University of Luxembourg Amit Chopra Lancaster University Luciano Coutinho Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA) Marina De Vos University of Bath Frank Dignum Utrecht University Virginia Dignum Delft University of Technology Nicoletta Fornara Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano Akin Gunay Nanyang Technological University Chris Haynes King's college London Jomi Fred Hubner Federal University of Santa Catarina Joris Hulstijn Delft University of Technology Eric Matson Purdue University John-Jules Meyer Utrecht University Simon Miles King's College London Felipe Meneguzzi PUCRS Pablo Noriega IIIA-CSIC Eugénio Oliveira Universidade do Porto Andrea Omicini Università di Bologna Julian Padget University of Bath Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu University of Otago Alessandro Ricci University of Bologna Christophe Sibertin-Blanc University for Social Sciences, Toulouse Jaime Sichman University of Sao Paulo Yao-Hua Tan Delft University of Technology Pankaj Telang North Carolina State University M. Birna Van Riemsdijk Delft University of Technology Wamberto Vasconcelos University of Aberdeen Javier Vazquez-Salceda UPC Harko Verhagen Stockholm University/KTH George Vouros University of Piraeus Submission and Publication ========================== Authors should submit full research papers (maximum length 16 pages); work-in-progress or demonstrator papers (maximum length 6 pages) as PDFs formatted according to Springer's LNCS style. All submissions should take place via the Easychair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coin2014 As for previous iterations of the workshop, we intend to invite authors to submit accepted papers to be published in a formal post-proceedings by Springer.