COINE 2020 : International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems Auckland, New Zealand
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| Event Date: | May 09, 2020 - May 10, 2020 |
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| Submission Deadline: | February 12, 2020 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | March 10, 2020 |
| Camera Ready Version Due: | March 24, 2020 |
About |
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Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms and ethics are five key governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems working on the scientific and technological aspects of social coordination, organizational theory, normative MAS, artificial or electronic institutions, norm-aware and ethical agents. The pervasiveness of “open systems” raises a range of challenges and opportunities for technologies in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. However, achieving and maintaining a “good” society is difficult to achieve as the participating entities (including human users), their modes of interaction or the intended purpose of the system may change over time. Moreover, in the case of open multi-agent systems, the autonomy of the agents can work against the effectiveness of the society. As a further trajectory of influence, coordination techniques such as distributed ledger technology can increase the autonomy and complexity of these open systems as a whole and challenge their governance. There is therefore a need for tools and techniques for articulating interactions in order to make the system more effective in attaining collective goals, more certain for participants or more predictable. This workshop is an evolution of the COIN (Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems) workshop series that ran at various conferences including AAMAS (12 times), IJCAI, AAAI and ECAI since 2006 (see COIN Series Website), and produced 12 volumes of post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. While operating in the tradition of the COIN workshop series, this edition of the workshop adds ethics to the workshop name and acronym as an explicit focus of the workshop, and includes governance of MAS in the workshop name to highlight this as the common objective uniting the various strands of research of interest to the workshop. Note: COINE will inherit COIN’s B-rating on the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) conference ranking list http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/. This edition of COINE will be hosted by AAMAS 2020 and will complement the main conference program by allowing a more relaxed and in-depth discussion of MAS from a social perspective. Under its new COINE brand, this workshop will not only be of interest to its traditional sub-community of AAMAS participants (those researchers working on coordination, organisational, institutional and normative models and technologies for MAS), but also invites researchers investigating the growing field of ethical governance of MAS. Important DatesNote: These dates are subject to further updates.
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Call for Papers |
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We invite submissions that address any of the following aspects:
The workshop complements the main AAMAS program by allowing a more relaxed and in-depth discussion of MAS from a social perspective and has proven to be an event that encourages debate, and fosters collaboration among researchers in these topics. A specific emphasis of this year’s iteration of COINE lies on the response to the wider uptake of COINE technologies within and across AAMAS communities, such as social robotics and reinforcement learning. To leverage a broader understanding on how COINE-related themes are employed in these research disciplines, we will invite established researchers from the respective fields in order to highlight their perspectives on and adoption of COINE theory and technologies. Building on those insights, we will use this workshop to provide a platform to discuss the potentially varying viewpoints and facilitate the exploration of synergies as well as opportunities for cross-fertilisation across community boundaries. |
Summary |
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COINE 2020 : International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems will take place in Auckland, New Zealand. It’s a 2 days event starting on May 09, 2020 (Saturday) and will be winded up on May 10, 2020 (Sunday). COINE 2020 falls under the following areas: COORDINATION, MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INSTITUTIONS, etc. Submissions for this Workshop can be made by Feb 12, 2020. Authors can expect the result of submission by Mar 10, 2020. Upon acceptance, authors should submit the final version of the manuscript on or before Mar 24, 2020 to the official website of the Workshop. Please check the official event website for possible changes before you make any travelling arrangements. Generally, events are strict with their deadlines. It is advisable to check the official website for all the deadlines. Other Details of the COINE 2020
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| [1] COINE 2020 : International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems |
