The COIN workshop series brings together the topics of coordination, organization, institutions and norms in multi-agent systems.
These topics have become an established area of agent research and a significant number of influential papers on these topics have been appearing in AAMAS and other agent conferences and workshops. The series of COIN workshops are thus aimed at consolidating and expanding the subject by providing focused events in which researchers from different communities participate.
COIN@AAMAS 2009 is an international workshop of the COIN series, held as a satellite event of AAMAS 2009, in Budapest, Hungary.
topCOIN@AAMAS 2009 took place on 12 May 2009, with 35 registered participants. The workshop was an exciting and fruitful gathering where discussions followed the papers presented by an international group of speakers. We had participants from Australia, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, UK and USA, to name a few. The organisers would like to say thanks to the participants, to the programme committee and to the steering committee for their support.
The organisers would now like to invite authors of accepted papers to re-submit their articles, addressing comments from reviews as well as from discussions during their presentations at COIN@AAMAS2009. All revised papers will go through another round of reviews and if the reviewers recommend, the paper will be included in the post-workshop proceedings, to be published by Springer-Verlag, as in past versions of the event (see the proceedings of past COIN versions here.)
These are the next steps for authors and reviewers:
The following papers were accepted for presentation at COIN@AAMAS2009. We had 19 submissions of which 12 papers were selected:
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are complex artifacts in which a multitude of autonomous software agents interact, pursuing individual and/or collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of organization, a set of norms or conventions that articulate or restrain interactions in order to enable agents to achieve their goals. The engineering of effective coordination or regulatory mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open, complex MAS.
In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research, especially in applications for Service-Oriented Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence. These applications enforce the need for using social and organizational aspects in order to ensure social order. Openness of MAS poses new demands on traditional MAS interaction models.
Therefore, the view of coordination and control has to be expanded to consider not only an agent-centric perspective but also societal and organization-centric views. The workshop aims to bring together the topics of Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms. These topics have become an established area of agent research and a significant number of influential papers on these topics have been appearing in AAMAS and other agent conferences and workshops. The series of COIN workshops are thus aimed at consolidating and expanding the subject by providing focused events in which researchers from different communities participate.
Topics of interest for COIN@AAMAS09 include (but are not limited to):
COIN@AAMAS09 merges the COIN workshop series with the workshop on Organized Adaptation for Multi-Agent Systems (OAMAS). Therefore, papers that explore the dynamic aspects of norms, organizations and institutions are particularly welcome in COIN@AAMAS09.
topThis is the timeline for the post-workshop paper re-submission:
We invite all authors of papers accepted for presentation at COIN@AAMAS2009 to re-submit their papers, addressing the reviewers' comments as well as factoring in feedback from discussions at the event.
The revised versions will go through another round of the review process whereby reviewers will assess whether the paper has improved and if they should be included in the proceedings. To facilitate this process, we require that, in addition to their revised papers, authors should also submit a report explaining how they addressed the reviewers' comments and how the paper improved as a result of discussions and comments from the workshop. The report should be provided either as a PDF or a plain text file.
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. Revised papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format.
Both revised paper and report should be submitted via the EasyChair Web pages. From the main page (after loggin on), select the paper to re-submit a version, then select "Submit a New Version"; you will be presented with a form to upload both the paper (File) and the attachment (Report). Please ensure both files are uploaded. If you experience any difficulties, please contact the organisers.
Instructions for Submission of Camera-Ready Versions
Would all authors with papers accepted for inclusion in the
post-workshop proceedings ensure that the camera-ready version of their articles reach us
on/by
Monday 31 August 2009
VERY IMPORTANT: We need the source files of the camera-ready version
of your paper, as well as the PDF. Please submit (using one of the options below) a ZIP
file with all the files needed in your article.
Here's how you can pass the ZIP file to us:
Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece)
Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Alexander Artikis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece
Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Stephen Cranefield, Otago, New Zealand
Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC, Rome, Italy
Virginia Dignum, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Marc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Nicoletta Fornara, Lugano, Switzerland
Jomi Fred Hubner, University of Blumenau, Brazil
Lloyd Kamara, Imperial College, UK
Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Eric Matson, Purdue University, USA
John-Jules Meyer, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Daniel Moldt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK
Eugenio Oliveira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Sascha Ossowski, URJC, Spain
Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK
Alessandro Ricci,Universita di Bologna, Italy
Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, UCPEL, Brazil
Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Jaime Sichman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Carles Sierra, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Kostas Stathis, University of London, UK
Catherine Tessier, ONERA, France
Wamberto Vasconcelos, University of Aberdeen, UK
Leon Van Der Torre, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Harko Verhagen, Stockholm University, Sweden
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
Guido Boella, University of Torino, Italy
Olivier Boissier, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, France
Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Nicoletta Fornara, University of Lugano, Italy
Christian Lemaitre, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Eric Matson, Purdue University, USA
Pablo Noriega, IIIA-CSIC, 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 Vazquez Salceda, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
The COIN@AAMAS2009 workshop will be organised as sessions gathering papers in 4 broad topics: