Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVII

The volume LNAI 15398 constitutes the revised selected papers of the 28th International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2024, held in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 7, 2024.

The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. The workshop focuses on both scientific and technological aspects of social coordination, organizational theory, artificial (electronic) institutions, and normative and ethical MAS.

Inhalt

Ethics and Values.- Specifying Agent Ethics.- Towards a Formalisation of Value based Actions and Consequentialist Ethics.- Value Aware Multiagent Systems.- Social Structures.- Emergent Dominance Hierarchies in Reinforcement Learning Agents.- Social Deliberation vs. Social Contracts in Self Governing Voluntary Organisations.- Norm Compliance and Enforcement.- An Agent Centric Perspective on Norm Enforcement and Sanctions.- Knowledge Level Support for Programming Agents to Interact in Regulated Online Forums.- Norms and Large Language Models.- Extracting Norms from Contracts Via ChatGPT Opportunities and Challenges.- Harnessing the Power of LLMs for Normative Reasoning in MASs.- Norm Violation Detection in Multi Agent Systems using Large Language Models A Pilot Study.