COIN 2011 - COIN 13th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems

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