Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI
This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed joint postprocessings of two international workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN@AAMAS 2010, held in Toronto, Canada in May 2010 and COIN@MALLOW 2010, held in L
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Marina De Vos Nicoletta Fornara Jeremy V. Pitt George Vouros (Eds.)
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems VI COIN 2010 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 2010 COIN@MALLOW 2010, Lyon, France, August 2010 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 Marina De Vos University of Bath, Department of Computer Science, Bath BA2 7AY, UK, E-mail: [email protected] Nicoletta Fornara Università della Svizzera Italiana Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland, E-mail: [email protected] Jeremy V. Pitt Imperial College London, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering London SW7 2BT, UK, E-mail: [email protected] George Vouros University of the Aegean Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering Karlovassi, 83200 Samos, Greece, E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-21267-3 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21268-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21268-0 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, D.2, C.2, H.4, H.5, H.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
This volume is the sixth in a series that started in 2005, and it collects papers from the Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) workshops http://www.pcs.usp.br/˜coin/. The papers in this volume are drawn from the two workshops that took place in 2010. The development of complex distributed systems consisting of autonomous and heterogeneous agents with diverse knowledge is a challenge: System components must interact, coordinate and collaborate to solve problems that are intrinsically distributed, manage the complexity of
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