Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent System VII [electronic resource] : COIN 2011 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, COIN@WI-IAT 2011, Lyon, France, August 22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers / edited by Stephen Cranefield, M. Birna Riemsdijk, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Pablo Noriega.

Agent Coordination -- Multi-agent Coordination through Mutualistic Interactions -- Explanation in Human-Agent Teamwork -- Adaptive Coordination in Distributed and Dynamic Agent Organizations -- Organisations and Institutions -- An Agent-Based Inter-organizational Collaboration Framework: OperA+ -- MANET: A Model for First-Class Electronic Institutions -- Norm-Aware Agent Reasoning -- Towards Practical Normative Agents: A Framework and an Implementation for Norm-Aware Planning -- Towards Justifying Norm Compliance -- Normative Run-Time Reasoning for Institutionally-Situated BDI Agents -- Modelling and Monitoring Interdependent Expectations -- Norm Creation and Enforcement Operationalization of the Sanctioning Process in Utilitarian Artificial Societies -- Overcoming Omniscience for Norm Emergence in Axelrod’s Metanorm Model -- Establishing Norms for Network Topologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly reviewed joint post-conference proceedings of two international workshops on Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN@AAMAS 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2011 and COIN@WI-IAT 2011, held in Lyon, France in August 2011. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent coordination, norm-aware agent reasoning, as well as norm creation and enforcement.