Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II

1. Front Matter

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2. MODELLING AND ANALYZING ORGANIZATIONS

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations

      • Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehdi Dastani, Làmber Royakkers

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   3. Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations

      • Ramón Hermoso, Holger Billhardt, Sascha Ossowski

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   4. Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations

      • Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum

      Pages 32-47

   5. Redesign of Organizations as a Basis for Organizational Change

      • Mark Hoogendoorn, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Treur

      Pages 48-64

3. MODELLING AND ANALYZING INSTITUTIONS

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Specifying and Reasoning About Multiple Institutions

      • Owen Cliffe, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget

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   3. Controlling an Interactive Game with a Multi-agent Based Normative Organisational Model

      • Benjamin Gâteau, Olivier Boissier, Djamel Khadraoui, Eric Dubois

      Pages 86-100

   4. Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena: Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions

      • Davide Grossi, Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum

      Pages 101-114

   5. Specification and Verification of Institutions Through Status Functions

      • Francesco Viganò, Marco Colombetti

      Pages 115-129

4. NORMATIVE MODELS AND ISSUES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Spatially Distributed Normative Objects

      • Fabio Y. Okuyama, Rafael H. Bordini, Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa

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   3. Informing Regulatory Dynamics in Open MASs

      • Carolina Felicíssimo, Ricardo Choren, Jean-Pierre Briot, Carlos Lucena

      Pages 147-162

   4. Operationalisation of Norms for Electronic Institutions

      • Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, Andrés García-Camino, Pablo Noriega, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra

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   5. Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-Based Approach

      • Andrés García-Camino, Juan-Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar, Carles Sierra, Wamberto Vasconcelos

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   6. An Agent-Based Model for Hierarchical Organizations

      • Luis Erasmo Montealegre Vázquez, Fabiola López y López

      Pages 194-211

   7. Ballroom etiquette: A Case Study for Norm-Governed Multi-Agent Systems

      • Dorian Gaertner, Keith Clark, Marek Sergot

      Pages 212-226

5. NORM EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Towards Self-configuration in Autonomic Electronic Institutions

      • Eva Bou, Maite López-Sánchez, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar

      Pages 229-244

In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become major research topics in MAS. Recent applications of MAS on Web services, grid c- puting and ubiquitous computing highlight the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within such environments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS, in turn, pose new demands on traditional MAS int- action models and bring forward the need to look into the environment where agents interact and at di?erent ways of constraining or regulating interactions. Consequently, the view of coordination and governance has been expanding to entertain not only an agent-centric perspective but societal and organizati- centric views as well. The overall problem of analyzing the social, legal, economic, and technolo- caldimensionsofagentorganizations,andthe co-evolutionofagentinteractions, provide theoretically demanding and interdisciplinary research questions at d- ferent levels of abstraction. The MAS research community has addressed these issues from di?erent perspectives that have gradually become more cohesive around the four notions in the title to the workshop: coordination, organization, institutions, and norms. The COIN workshops are thus designed to consolidate the subject by providing focus events that reach researchers from diverse c- munities working in related topics and facilitate more systematic discussion of themes that have been treated from various perspectives. This year, the COIN workshops were hosted during AAMAS 2006, (on June 9,in Hakodate,Japan)and ECAI2006(on August28,in Rivadel Garda,Italy). The papers contained in this volume are the revised versions of a selection of thosethatwerepresented in these workshops.

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