Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems AAMAS 2005 International Workshops on Agents, Norms, and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005 and on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25-26, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and the International Workshop on Organizations in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associated event of AAMAS 2005.
This volume is the first in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent systems. The 17 papers in this volume are extended, revised versions of the best papers presented at the ANIREM and the OOOP workshops at AAMAS 2005 that were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers from the two workshops have been re-grouped around the following themes: modelling, analyzing and programming organizations, modelling and analyzing institutions, modelling normative designs, as well as evaluation and regulation.

Modelling, Analyzing and Programming Organizations.- A Coordination Framework Based on the Sociology of Organized Action.- Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations.- Towards Sustained Team Effectiveness.- Verification and Analysis of Organisational Change.- : A Middleware for Developing Organised Multi-agent Systems.- Modelling and Analyzing Institutions.- Fencing the Open Fields: Empirical Concerns on Electronic Institutions (Invited Paper).- Specifying and Analysing Agent-Based Social Institutions Using Answer Set Programming.- Modeling Control Mechanisms with Normative Multiagent Systems: The Case of the Renewables Obligation.- Computational Institutions for Modelling Norm-Regulated MAS: An Approach Based on Coordination Artifacts.- An Event Driven Approach to Norms in Artificial Institutions.- Modelling Normative Designs.- Designing Normative Behaviour Via Landmarks.- Design by Contract Deontic Design Language for Multiagent Systems.- Informed Deliberation During Norm-Governed Practical Reasoning.- Organizations in Artificial Social Systems.- Evaluation and Regulation.- Exploring Congruence Between Organizational Structure and Task Performance: A Simulation Approach.- Verifying Norm Compliancy of Protocols.- A Rule Language for Modelling and Monitoring Social Expectations in Multi-agent Systems.