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Final Call for papers: COIN@ECAI 2016

*** PLEASE NOTE: DATE CHANGES AND SUBMISSION POLICY CHANGES ***

*** Abstract submission for new papers: 9th June  ***
*** Submission deadline for new papers: 12th June ***

*** Abstract submission for ECAI(2016)-reviewed papers: ASAP after ECAI 
notification  ***
*** Submission deadline for ECAI(2016)-reviewed papers: 16th June ***

UPDATE (2016-06-01): the postponement of the ECAI notification date to 
June 10th creates further pressure. To accommodate submission of 
rejected papers and long versions of accepted short papers from ECAI, 
COIN will accept, for review, papers that are *accompanied by their ECAI 
reviews* until June 16th. The schedule below is updated to reflect this 
situation.

PLEASE 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 for new papers
2016-06-12 Deadline for submission for new papers
2016-06-16 Deadline for submission for ECAI(2016)-reviewed papers
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.

COIN@ECAI2016 CO-CHAIRS

Julian Padget (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
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Ana Paula Rocha (University of Porto, Portugal)
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