[with apologies for cross-posts] Second Call for papers: COIN@ECAI 2016 *** Submission deadline: 12th June *** *** Abstract submission: 9th June *** PLESASE NOTE: the submission deadline is hard due to the tight timing derived from the ECAI schedule for main conference decisions (June 7th) and for early registration (July 5th). The registration deadline means COIN, like other workshops, is being asked to publish decisions by June 28th, giving two weeks for reviewing plus two days for decision-making. Hence abstract submission is critical to allow bidding to take place beforehand. Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN@ECAI2016) (http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/coin@ecai2016) A workshop co-located with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2016 (http://www.ecai2016.org/) August 30, 2016, The Hague, The Netherlands OBJECTIVES The emergence of open socio-technical systems raises a range of challenges and opportunities for research and technological development in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. In particular, human expectations about software behaviour - justified or not - significantly affect the evolution of human attitudes towards, acceptability of and creation of trust in such systems. Consequently, mechanisms that transmit representations of human values and how software can make decisions that respect them, are potentially significant for the effective design and construction of mixed human/software open systems. Coordination, organizations, institutions and norms are four key governance elements for such systems, and the COIN workshops constitute a space for debate and exploration of these four elements in the design and use of open systems. We seek to attract high-quality papers and an active audience to debate mathematical, logical, computational, methodological, implementational, philosophical and pragmatic issues related to the four aspects of COIN. In particular we seek to attract: * papers that present formal treatment of topics, * papers that present interdisciplinary treatment of topics, * papers that provide experimental support to claims, * papers that discuss tools, prototypes and actual working systems, * papers that propose novel and challenging positions, * papers that report on the experience of deployment and application of regulated open MAS, and * papers concerned with modelling, animation and simulation techniques for these types of multi-agent systems. Of particular interest for the workshop are those papers that articulate a challenging or innovative view. COIN is ranked B on the CORE Conference Ranking list: http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/2160/ IMPORTANT DATES 2016-06-09 Deadline for abstract submission 2016-06-12 Deadline for paper submission 2016-06-28 Notification of decisions 2016-07-05 ECAI early registration deadline 2016-07-27 Camera-ready copy due 2016-08-30 Date of workshop INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS For preparation of papers please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page. The length of each paper including figures and references may not exceed 16 pages. All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. For submission of papers, please use the EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coinecai2016. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the work. PROCEEDINGS Preliminary proceedings will be available before the conference. They will also be distributed to ECAI 2016 registrants in electronic form. As with previous COIN workshops, we will have an LNCS post-proceedings. Authors will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their paper for consideration for a Springer LNCS volume combining the post-proceedings of this workshop with those for the first COIN workshop held earlier in 2016 at AAMAS. Revised papers must take into account the discussion held during the workshop; hence, only papers that are presented during the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume.