Ebook: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II: AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006. Revised Selected Papers

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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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.

It contains 23 papers that are extended, revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops, which have been carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and analyzing organizations, modeling and analyzing institutions, normative models and issues, norm evolution and dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and social order. This volume is the second in a series focusing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems.

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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.

It contains 23 papers that are extended, revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops, which have been carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling and analyzing organizations, modeling and analyzing institutions, normative models and issues, norm evolution and dynamics, as well as autonomy, coordination and social order. This volume is the second in a series focusing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations....Pages 3-18
Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations....Pages 19-31
Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations....Pages 32-47
Redesign of Organizations as a Basis for Organizational Change....Pages 48-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Specifying and Reasoning About Multiple Institutions....Pages 67-85
Controlling an Interactive Game with a Multi-agent Based Normative Organisational Model....Pages 86-100
Specification and Verification of Institutions Through Status Functions....Pages 101-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-129
Spatially Distributed Normative Objects....Pages 131-131
Informing Regulatory Dynamics in Open MASs....Pages 133-146
Operationalisation of Norms for Electronic Institutions....Pages 147-162
Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-Based Approach....Pages 163-176
An Agent-Based Model for Hierarchical Organizations....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 194-211
Towards Self-configuration in Autonomic Electronic Institutions....Pages 212-226
Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations....Pages 227-227
Using Dynamic Electronic Institutions to Enable Digital Business Ecosystems....Pages 229-244
A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order....Pages 245-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-273
What Is Commitment? Physical, Organizational, and Social (Revised) ....Pages 274-289
Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 291-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-307
Influence-Based Autonomy Levels in Agent Decision-Making....Pages 308-321
Centralized Regulation of Social Exchanges Between Personality-Based Agents....Pages 291-291
Cooperative Interactions: An Exchange Values Model....Pages 322-337
Back Matter....Pages 338-355
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