| Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II: AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Noriega, Pablo (Editor), Vázquez-Salceda, Javier (Editor), Boella, Guido (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540744576 ISBN-13: 9783540744573 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2006, held as two events at AAMAS 2006, the 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Hakodate, Japan, and ECAI 2006, the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Riva del Garda, Italy. This volume is the second in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 23 papers in this volume are extended, revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops that were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modelling and analyzing organizations, modelling and analyzing institutions, normative models and issues, norm evolution and dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and social order. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics - Computers | Networking - Hardware - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.91" W x 9.39" (1.27 lbs) 376 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 works |