AAMAS 2025: Call for Papers (Main Technical Track)

NOTE: This call is officially closed.

The 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025) took place May 19-23, 2025, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

All submissions were rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, taking into account criteria such as originality, significance, soundness, reproducibility, clarity, relevance to the conference, quality of presentation, as well as understanding and appropriate referencing of the state of the art.

The papers were published under CC BY license.

Areas of Interest

We welcomed the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. At the time of submission, authors were asked to associate their paper with one of the following areas of interest:

• LEARN: Learning and Adaptation
• GTEP: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms
• COINE: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics
• SOPS: Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling
• RPR: Representation, Perception, and Reasoning
• EMAS: Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems
• SIM: Modeling and Simulation of Societies
• HAI: Human-Agent Interaction
• ROBOT: Robotics and Control
• IA: Innovative Applications

Learning and Adaptation (LEARN)

Area Chairs: Long Tran-Thanh, Bo An, Marc Lanctot, Chongjie Zhang, Jianye Hao, Haifeng Xu, Jakob Foerster

Topics:

• Reasoning and learning under uncertainty
• Supervised learning
• Unsupervised and representation learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Multiagent learning
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Learning agent capabilities
• Learning agent-to-agent interactions
• Human-in-the-loop learning
• Agency and learning in large language models (LLMs)
• Learning for value alignment and RLHF
• Modeling and analysis of Generative AI agents
• Few-shot learning
• Distributionally-robust learning
• Adversarial learning

Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP)

Area Chairs: Reshef Meir, Nisarg Shah, Georgios Piliouras, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Rica Gonen

Topics:

• Auctions and Mechanism Design
• Bargaining and Negotiation
• Behavioral Game Theory
• Evolutionary Game Theory
• Non-Cooperative Games: Equilibrium Concepts
• Non-Cooperative Games: Computational Issues
• Non-Cooperative Games: Theory and Applications
• Voting and Preference Aggregation
• Social Choice
• Preference Aggregation and Value Alignment
• Matching and Allocation
• Coalition Formation
• Cooperative Games

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE)

Area Chairs: Felipe Meneguzzi, Pradeep Murukannaiah

Topics:

• Coordination and teamwork
• Social network analysis
• Norms, normative systems
• Organizations and institutions
• Non-strategic coalition/team formation
• Communication, including using natural language
• Policy, regulation, and accountability
• Trust and reputation
• Ethical considerations, including privacy, safety, security, transparency
• Agreement Technologies: Negotiation and Argumentations
• Responsible socio-technical systems

Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS)

Area Chairs: William Yeoh, Sven Koenig

Topics:

• Single-agent planning and scheduling
• Multiagent planning and scheduling
• Decentralized planning and scheduling
• Planning under uncertainty
• Combinatorial optimization
• Constraint programming
• Distributed constraint reasoning
• Resource and task allocation
• Non-strategic coalition formation

Representation, Perception, and Reasoning (RPR)

Area Chairs: Natasha Alechina, Aparna Taneja, Alessio Lomuscio

Topics:

• Computer vision
• Representation learning and generative AI
• Neurosymbolic approaches
• Argumentation
• Agent theories and models
• Explainability
• Logics for agent reasoning
• Ontologies for agents
• Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, goals, actions, plans, and change in multiagent systems
• Reasoning and problem solving in agent-based systems
• Verification of agents and multiagent systems

Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS)

Area Chairs: Viviana Mascardi, Daniela Briola

Topics:

• Requirements and formal specification
• Architecture and modeling
• Formal verification and validation
• Programming models and languages
• Testing, maintenance, and evolution
• Concurrency, fault tolerance, robustness, reliability, performance, and scalability
• Sociotechnical systems, norms, and governance
• Responsibility and accountability
• Interoperability, business agreements, and interaction protocols
• Declarative, Logic-based, and BDI-based agents
• Engineering ethical agents
• Engineering MAS-based simulations
• Tools and testbeds
• Technological paradigms, including microservices, the Web, the IoT, Cloud computing, distributed Ledgers, and Robotics
• Middleware and platforms for MAS
• Engineering learning agents
• Usability
• Applications, including Finance, Health, Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles and Smart-*

Modeling and Simulation of (Artificial) Societies (SIM)

Area Chairs: Ana Bazzan, Samarth Swarup

Topics:

• Analysis of agent-based simulations
• Calibration methods for socio-demographic data
• Agent-based models & Social Networks
• Applications of agent-based simulations in social phenomena (polarization, inequality, etc.)
• Emergent behavior
• Engineering agent-based simulations
• Interactive simulation
• Modeling for agent-based simulation
• Simulation of complex systems
• Simulation techniques, tools and platforms
• Social simulation
• Validation of social simulation systems

Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

Area Chairs: Michael Goodrich, Birgit Lugrin

Topics:

• Human-agent interaction
• Agent-based analysis of human interactions
• Socially interactive agents
• Trust and explainability in human-agent interactions
• Human-robot interaction and collaboration
• Social robotics and social interactions
• Mixed-initiative and shared autonomy in human-agent interactions
• Groups of humans and agents
• Agents models and architectures for interaction with humans
• Designing for human-agent interaction
• Virtual humans

Robotics and Control (ROBOT)

Area Chairs: Noa Agmon, Christopher Amato

Topics:

• Multi-robot coordination and collaboration
• Robot planning
• Robot learning
• Explainability, trust and ethics for robots
• Knowledge representation and reasoning in robotic systems
• Long-term (or lifelong) autonomy for robotic systems
• Mapping, localization and exploration
• Robot Modeling & Simulation
• Manipulation and navigation
• Networked systems and distributed robotics
• Robot control
• Robot perception and vision
• Robots in adversarial settings
• Swarm and collective behavior
• Execution monitoring and failure recovery for robots

Innovative Applications (IA)

Area Chairs: Thanh Nguyen, Pradeep Varakantham

Topics:

• Deployed or emerging applications of agent-based systems
• Realistic agent-based models of human organizations
• Evaluation of the cognitive capabilities of agent-based systems
• Integrated applications of agent-based and other technologies
• Challenges and best practices of real-world deployments of agent-based technologies

Special Tracks

In addition to the main track, AAMAS 2025 featured four special tracks:

• AAAI Resubmissions Track
• Blue Sky Ideas Track
• JAAMAS Track
• Demo Track

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: October 9, 2024
• Paper submission: October 16, 2024
• Rebuttal period: Nov 27 – Dec 4, 2024
• Author notification: Dec 23, 2024
• Camera-ready paper: Feb 7, 2025, Feb 21, 2025
• Conference: May 19-23, 2025

NOTE: All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).

Organizing Committee

• AAMAS 2025 General Chairs:
  • Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Sanmay Das (George Mason University, USA)
• AAMAS 2025 Program Chairs:
  • Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (Sorbonne University, France)
  • Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA)
• AAMAS 2025 Workflow Chairs:
  • Tao Zhang (Washington University in Saint Louis, USA)
  • Ayan Mukhopahdyay (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• AAMAS 2025 Local Chair:
  • Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

If you have additional questions, please contact the program and workflow chairs using aamas2025pcchairs@googlegroups.com.