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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV

COIN 2008 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008 COIN@AAAI 2008, Chicago, USA, July 14, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. From Coordination to Organization

    1. Agreeing on Institutional Goals for Multi-agent Societies

      • Dorian Gaertner, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Francesca Toni
      Pages 1-16
    2. Organizations and Autonomous Agents: Bottom-Up Dynamics of Coordination Mechanisms

      • Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Virginia Dignum
      Pages 17-32
    3. Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics

      • Chris L. D. Jones, K. Suzanne Barber
      Pages 33-47
    4. Force Versus Majority: A Comparison in Convention Emergence Efficiency

      • Paulo Urbano, João Balsa, Luis Antunes, Luis Moniz
      Pages 48-63
  3. From Organization to Coordination

    1. Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models

      • Michael Köhler-Bußmeier, Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus
      Pages 64-79
    2. Exploring Robustness in the Context of Organizational Self-design

      • Sachin Kamboj, Keith S. Decker
      Pages 80-95
    3. Instrumenting Multi-agent Organisations with Artifacts to Support Reputation Processes

      • Jomi Fred Hübner, Laurent Vercouter, Olivier Boissier
      Pages 96-110
    4. A Hybrid Reputation Model Based on the Use of Organizations

      • Viviane Torres da Silva, Ramón Hermoso, Roberto Centeno
      Pages 111-125
  4. Formalization of Norms and Institutions

    1. Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions

      • Jordi Campos, Maite López-Sánchez, Juan Antonia Rodríguez-Aguilar, Marc Esteva
      Pages 126-139
    2. A Context-Based Institutional Normative Environment

      • Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira
      Pages 140-155
    3. Towards a Formalisation of Electronic Contracting Environments

      • Nir Oren, Sofia Panagiotidi, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sanjay Modgil, Michael Luck, Simon Miles
      Pages 156-171
  5. Design of Norms and Institutions

    1. Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions

      • Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao
      Pages 188-203
    2. Verifying Social Expectations by Model Checking Truncated Paths

      • Stephen Cranefield, Michael Winikoff
      Pages 204-219
  6. Applications

    1. The Use of Norms Violations to Model Agents Behavioral Variety

      • Benoit Lacroix, Philippe Mathieu, Andras Kemeny
      Pages 220-234
    2. Categorizing Social Norms in a Simulated Resource Gathering Society

      • Daniel Villatoro, Jordi Sabater-Mir
      Pages 235-249
    3. Transgression and Atonement

      • Kevin M. Knight, Deepthi Chandrasekaran, Aline Normoyle, Ransom Weaver, Barry G. Silverman
      Pages 250-265
  7. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2008, held as two events at AAMAS 2008, the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Estoril, Portugal, in May 2008 and at AAAI 2008, the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Chicago, IL, USA, in July 2008. This volume is the 4th in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 17 papers contained in this volume are the revised and extended versions of a selection of papers presented and discussed in these two workshops. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: from coordination to organization, from organization to coordination, formalization of norms and institutions, design of norms and institutions, as well as applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Multi-agent Systems Department, EMS Mines Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, France

    Jomi Fred Hübner

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Eric Matson

  • ENS Mines Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, Cedex 02, France

    Olivier Boissier

  • Dept. Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Virginia Dignum

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