COINE 2025: Call for Papers

The International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE) is co-located with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), in Detroit, Michigan, USA, from May 18th to May 22nd, 2025.

Overview

Coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics are five key governance elements for the regulation of open multi-agent systems. COINE is an evolution of the COIN workshop series, aiming to bring together researchers in autonomous agents and multi-agent systems working on the scientific and technological aspects of social coordination, organizational theory, normative MAS, artificial or electronic institutions, and agents aware of norms, policies, and ethics.

The workshop complements the main AAMAS program by allowing a more relaxed and in-depth discussion of MAS from a social perspective, fostering debate and collaboration among researchers.

Topics of Interest

We invite submissions that address any of the following aspects:

• Mathematical, logical, computational, philosophical, legal, and pragmatic issues related to coordination, organizations, institutions, norms, and ethics in MAS.
• Modeling, animation, and simulation techniques for open MAS.
• Tools, prototypes, and actual working systems.
• Topics investigating the relationship between COINE and the rapidly evolving AI landscape (e.g., including LLMs and Generative AI).
• Topics exploring the value-aligned problems within MAS in the COINE domain.
• Experimental investigation of the effectiveness of COINE technologies.
• Challenging or innovative ideas relevant to the field.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: February 25th, 2025 (AoE) (EXTENDED)
• Author notifications: March 21st, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: April 22nd, 2025 (AoE)
• Workshop: May 20th, 2025

Instructions for Authors

For preparation of papers, please follow the instructions for authors available at the Springer LNCS Web page.

We solicit three types of papers (in LNCS format):

1. Full research papers: (16 pages, excluding references)
2. Short research papers: (10 pages, excluding references) – These ‘early-innovation’ papers are work-in-progress papers and will be reviewed with an emphasis on novelty/originality of the idea.
3. Blue sky ideas: (up to 16 pages, excluding references) – These papers focus on the COINE topics and have the same scope as the blue sky ideas track of AAMAS 2025.

All papers must be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Information about the paper type should be included at the end of the title of the paper – (Full), (Short), or (Blue Sky ideas).

Submission

• Submission Site: https://openreview.net/group?id=ifaamas.org/AAMAS/2025/Workshop/COINE
• Submitted papers will be reviewed on a “single-blind” basis by at least two PC members.
• Submission of a paper implies that, should it be accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop to present the work in person.

Proceedings

COINE intends to publish post-proceedings in Springer’s LNCS series (pending confirmation). Authors will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their paper for consideration. Only papers presented during the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the post-proceedings volume.

Registration

• Workshop registration is now available.
• Early registration deadline: March 31, 2025.
• Registration Link: https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/registration/