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

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2007, held as two events at AAMAS 2007, the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in Honolulu, HI, USA, in May 2007 and MALLOW 2007, the Federated Workshops on Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations in Durham, UK, in September 2007.
This volume is the third in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 23 papers in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at the two workshops that were carefully selected from 38 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on coordination, organization and institutions, and norms.

Coordination.- Towards a Framework for Agent Coordination and Reorganization, AgentCoRe.- Ignoring, Forcing and Expecting Simultaneous Events in Electronic Institutions.- A Contract Model for Electronic Institutions.- Embedding Landmarks and Scenes in a Computational Model of Institutions.- Coordination and Sociability for Intelligent Virtual Agents.- The Examination of an Information-Based Approach to Trust.- A Dynamic Coordination Mechanism Using Adjustable Autonomy.- Organizations and Institutions.- Towards a Formalisation of Dynamic Electronic Institutions.- Large-Scale Organizational Computing Requires Unstratified Reflection and Strong Paraconsistency.- Using Case-Based Reasoning in Autonomic Electronic Institutions.- Semantical Concepts for a Formal Structural Dynamics of Situated Multiagent Systems.- Dynamic Composition of Electronic Institutions for Teamwork.- Organisational Artifacts and Agents for Open Multi-Agent Organisations: “Giving the Power Back to the Agents”.- Knowledge Sharing Between Agents in a Transitioning Organization.- Norms.- Role Model Based Mechanism for Norm Emergence in Artificial Agent Societies.- Using Testimonies to Enforce the Behavior of Agents.- Implementing Norms That Govern Non-dialogical Actions.- A Normative Multi-Agent Systems Approach to the Use of Conviviality for Digital Cities.- On the Multimodal Logic of Normative Systems.- A Distributed Architecture for Norm Management in Multi-Agent Systems.- A Coherence Based Framework for Institutional Agents.- Distributed Norm Enforcement Via Ostracism.- Model Checking Norms and Sanctions in Institutions.