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 / edited by Pablo Noriega, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Guido Boella, Olivier Boissier, Virginia Dignum, Nicoletta Fornara, Eric T Matson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Noriega, Pablo, 1953- editor.

Vázquez-Salceda, Javier, 1975- editor.

Boella, Guido, editor.

Boissier, Olivier, editor.

Dignum, Virginia, editor.

Fornara, Nicoletta, editor.

Matson, Eric T., editor.

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Computer Science (Springer-11645)

Lecture notes in computer science. Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 4386.

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 4386

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Software engineering.

Computer logic.

Computer programming.

Computer networks.

Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Programming Techniques.

Computer Communication Networks.

Local Subjects:

Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Programming Techniques.

Computer Communication Networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 376 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2007.

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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.

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Summary:

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.

Contents:

MODELLING AND ANALYZING ORGANIZATIONS

Structural Aspects of the Evaluation of Agent Organizations

Integrating Trust in Virtual Organisations

Coordinating Tasks in Agent Organizations

Redesign of Organizations as a Basis for Organizational Change

MODELLING AND ANALYZING INSTITUTIONS

Specifying and Reasoning About Multiple Institutions

Controlling an Interactive Game with a Multi-agent Based Normative Organisational Model

Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena: Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions

Specification and Verification of Institutions Through Status Functions

NORMATIVE MODELS AND ISSUES

Spatially Distributed Normative Objects

Informing Regulatory Dynamics in Open MASs

Operationalisation of Norms for Electronic Institutions

Norm-Oriented Programming of Electronic Institutions: A Rule-Based Approach

An Agent-Based Model for Hierarchical Organizations

Ballroom etiquette: A Case Study for Norm-Governed Multi-Agent Systems

NORM EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS

Towards Self-configuration in Autonomic Electronic Institutions

Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations

Using Dynamic Electronic Institutions to Enable Digital Business Ecosystems

A Peer-to-Peer Normative System to Achieve Social Order

AUTONOMY, COORDINATION AND SOCIAL ORDER

What Is Commitment? Physical, Organizational, and Social (Revised)

Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems

Influence-Based Autonomy Levels in Agent Decision-Making

Centralized Regulation of Social Exchanges Between Personality-Based Agents

Cooperative Interactions: An Exchange Values Model.

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978-3-540-74459-7

9783540744597

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