Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems III: COIN 2007 International Workshops COIN@AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 2007 COIN@MALLOW 2007, Durham, UK, September 2007 Revised Selected Papers - Lecture Notes in Computer Scie 2008 edition

Marc Notes: In 2007, the COIN workshops were hosted by AAMAS 2007 (May 14, Honolulu, USA) and by MALLOW 2007 (September 3-4, Durham, UK). The papers contained in this volume are the revised versions of a selection of the papers presented in these workshops--Preface.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also avail. in electronic form. Table of Contents: Coordination -- Towards a Framework for Agent Coordination and Reorganization, AgentCoRe / Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter Jansweijer, Bob Wielinga -- Ignoring, Forcing and Expecting Simultaneous Events in Electronic Institutions / Andres Garcia-Camino -- A Contract Model for Electronic Institutions / Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugenio Oliveira -- Embedding Landmarks and Scenes in a Computational Model of Institutions / Owen Cliffe, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget -- Coordination and Sociability for Intelligent Virtual Agents / Francisco Grimaldo, Miguel Lozano, Fernando Barber -- The Examination of an Information-Based Approach to Trust / Maaike Harbers, Rineke Verbrugge, Carles Sierra, John Debenham -- A Dynamic Coordination Mechanism Using Adjustable Autonomy / Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meyer, Martijn Neef -- Organizations and Institutions -- Towards a Formalisation of Dynamic Electronic Institutions / Eduard Muntaner-Perich, Josep Lluis de la Rosa Esteva -- Large-Scale Organizational Computing Requires Unstratified Reflection and Strong Paraconsistency / Carl Hewitt -- Using Case-Based Reasoning in Autonomic Electronic Institutions / Eva Bou, Maite Lopez-Sanchez, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar -- Semantical Concepts for a Formal Structural Dynamics of Situated Multiagent Systems / Antonio Carlos da Rocha Costa, Gracaliz Pereira Dimuro -- Dynamic Composition of Electronic Institutions for Teamwork / Mario Gomez, Enric Plaza -- Organisational Artifacts and Agents for Open Multi-Agent Organisations: Giving the Power Back to the Agents / Rosine Kitio, Olivier Boissier, Jomi Fred Hubner, Alessandro Ricci -- Knowledge Sharing Between Agents in a Transitioning Organization / Eric Matson, Raj Bhatnagar -- Norms -- Role Model Based Mechanism for Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies / Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Stephen Cranefield, Maryam Purvis, Martin Purvis -- Using Testimonies to Enforce the Behavior of Agents / Fernanda Duran, Viviane Torres da Silva, Carlos J. P. de Lucena -- Implementing Norms That Govern Non-dialogical Actions / Viviane Torres da Silva -- A Normative Multi-Agent Systems Approach to the Use of Conviviality for Digital Cities / Patrice Caire -- On the Multimodal Logic of Normative Systems / Pilar Dellunde -- A Distributed Architecture for Norm Management in Multi-Agent Systems / Andres Garcia-Camino, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar, Wamberto Vasconcelos -- A Coherence Based Framework for Institutional Agents / Sindhu Joseph, Carles Sierra, Marco Schorlemmer -- Distributed Norm Enforcement Via Ostracism / Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, Marco Schorlemmer -- Model Checking Norms and Sanctions in Institutions / Francesco Vigano, Marco Colombetti -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: In recent years, social and organizational aspects of agency have become - jor research topics in MAS. Current applications of MAS in Web services, grid computing and ubiquitous computing highlight the need for using these aspects in order to ensure social order within such environments. Openness, hete- geneity, and scalability of MAS, in turn, put new demands on traditional MAS interaction models and bring forward the need to investigate the environment wherein agents interact, more speci?cally to design di?erent ways of constra- ing or regulating agents interactions. Consequently, the view of coordination and control has been expanding to entertain not only an agent-centric persp- tive but societal and organization-centric views as well. The overall problem of analyzing the social, legal, economic and technological dimensions of agent organizations and the co-evolution of agent interactions pose theoretically - manding and interdisciplinary research questions at di?erent levels of abstr- tion. The MAS research community has addressed these issues from di?erent perspectives that have gradually become more cohesive around the four c- cepts that give title to this workshop series: coordination, organization, ins- tutions and norms. The COIN@AAMAS 2007 and COIN@MALLOW 2007 events belong to a workshopseries that started in 2005, and since then has continued with two e- tions per year. The main goalof these workshopsis to bring together researchers from di?erent communities working in theoretical and/or practical aspects of coordination, organization, institutions and norms, and to to facilitate a more systematicdiscussionofthesethemesthathaveuntillatelybeenconsideredfrom di?erent perspectives."