Workshop Programme –– May 12 2008 ––

 

9h30 - 11h00: Resolution of conflicts within/for normative organisations

  1. Open (slides)

  2. Chair: Olivier Boissier

  3. Combining Job and Team Selection heuristics (slides)
    Chris Jones (University of Texas at Austin, United States) and
    K. Suzanne Barber (University of Texas at Austin, United States)

  4. Agreeing on Institutional Goals for Multi-Agent Societies (slides)
    Dorian Gaertner (Imperial College London, UK),
    Francesca Toni (Imperial College London, UK), and
    Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

  5. An Argumentation Inspired Heuristic for Resolving Normative Conflict (slides)
    Nir Oren (King's College London, UK), 
    Michael Luck (King's College London, UK),
    Simon Miles (King's College London, UK), and
    Timothy J. Norman (University of Aberdeen, UK)

11h00 - 11h30: Coffee break

11h30 - 13h00: Autonomy and  normative organisations

  1. Chair: Viviane Torres da Silva

  2. Basic Concepts for Shared Authority in Heterogenous Agents (slides)
    Stéphane Mercier (ONERA - ISAE, University of Toulouse, France),
    Catherine Tessier (Onera-DCSD, France), and
    Frédéric Dehais (ISAE, France)

  3. Automatic Generation of Distributed Team Formation Algorithms from Organizational Models (slides)
    Michael Köhler (University of Hamburg, Germany) and
    Matthias Wester-Ebbinghaus (University of Hamburg, Germany)

  4. Organizations and Autonomous Agents: Bottom-up Dynamics of Coordination Mechanisms (slides)
    Bob van der Vecht (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands),
    Frank Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands),
    John-Jules Meyer (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands), and
    Virginia Dignum (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)

13h00 - 14h30: Lunch

14h30 - 16h00: Norms violation and monitoring I

  1. Chair: Julian Padget

  2. Formalising Situatedness and Adaptation in Electronic Institutions (slides)
    Jordi Campos (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain),
    Maite Lopez-Sanchez (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain),
    Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC, Spain), and
    Marc Esteva (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)

  3. A Context-Based Institutional Normative Environment (slides)
    Henrique Lopes Cardoso (FEUP - LIACC, Portugal) and
    Eugénio Oliveira (Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto - LIACC, Portugal)

  4. A Hybrid Reputation Model Based on the Use of Organizations (slides)
    Viviane Silva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain),
    Ramon Hermoso Traba (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), and
    Roberto Centeno (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)

16h00 - 16h30: Coffee break

16h30 - 18h00: Norms violation and monitoring II

  1. Chair: Wamberto Vasconcelos

  2. Verifying Social Expectations by Model Checking Truncated Paths (slides)
    Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) and
    Michael Winikoff (RMIT University, Australia)

  3. An Automata-based Monitoring Technique for Commitment-based Multi-Agent Systems (slides)
    Paola Spoletini (University of Insubria, Italy) and
    Mario Verdicchio (University of Bergamo, Italy)

  4. The Use of Norms' Violations to Model Agents' Behavioral Variety (slides)
    Benoit Lacroix (Renault / LIFL, France),
    Philippe Mathieu (Renault / LIFL, France), and
    Andras Kemeny (Renault / LIFL, France)

18h00 - 18h40: Discussion Session

  1. Chairs: Jaime S. Sichman & Jomi Fred Hubner

  2. Theme “Do we need a testbed in the COIN community and for what?” (slides)


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