Workshop on Coordination, Organisation, Institutions and Norms

Multi-agent systems are often understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of organisation, or set of norms or conventions that art...

Multi-agent systems are often understood as complex entities where a multitude of agents interact, usually with some intended individual or collective goals. Such a view usually assumes some form of organisation, or set of norms or conventions that articulate or restrain interactions in order to make them more effective in attaining those goals, more certain for participants or more predictable. The engineering of effective coordination or regulatory mechanisms is a key problem for the design of open complex multi-agent systems.

In recent years, social and organisational aspects of agency have become a major issue in MAS research specially in applications on Service Oriented Computing, Grid Computing and Ambient Intelligence. These applications enforce the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within these environments. Openness, heterogeneity, and scalability of MAS pose new demands on traditional MAS interaction models. Therefore, the view of coordination and control has to be expanded to consider not only an agent-centric perspective but also a societal and organisation-centric views.

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