Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems IV
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 Conferen
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Jomi Fred Hübner Eric Matson Olivier Boissier Virginia Dignum (Eds.)
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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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Jomi Fred Hübner Olivier Boissier ENS Mines Saint-Etienne 42023 Saint-Etienne Cedex 02, France E-mail:{hubner;boissier}@emse.fr Eric Matson Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 70907, USA E-mail: [email protected] Virginia Dignum Utrecht University 3508TB Utrecht, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected]
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0302-9743 3-642-00442-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-00442-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are often understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of organization, or set of norms or conventions that articulate or restrain interactions in order to make them more effective, certain, or predictable for participants. Engineering effective coordination or regulatory mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open complex multi-agent systems. In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research especially in applications on service-oriented computing, grid computing and ambient intelligence. These applications enforce the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within these environments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose 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 soc
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