AAMAS 2026 BEST PAPER AWARDS

Best Paper
Best Student Paper
Best Blue Sky Paper

Best Paper Nominees

      • Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander Todd Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali,
        David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, and Ufuk Topcu
        UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using
        Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
        Session: SOPS 2 – Planning and Learning
      • Longyin Cui
        Ratio-Based Signaling for Source-Victim Separation in Swarm Fault Detection
        Session: May 27 – AM Poster Session
      • Manuel Eberl and Patrick Lederer
        The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation
        Session: GTEP 5 – Social Choice
      • Seongmin Kim, Giseung Park, Woojun Kim, Jiwon Jeon, Seungyul Han, and Youngchul Sung
        Generalized Per-Agent
        Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Optimization
        Session: LEARN 2 – Cooperative MARL
      • Maoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Haoyuan Li, and Jiamou Liu
        R-Debater: Retrieval-Augmented Debate Generation
        through Argumentative Memory
        Session: RR2 – Argumentation
      • Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, and Paolo Turrini
        Defection at First Sight: Learning Partner Selection in Optional
        Social Dilemmas without Prior Information
        Session: COINE 1 – Coordination and Cooperation
      • Nicolas Schwind, Gauvain Bourgne, and Katsumi Inoue
        Characterizing Consensuses in Belief Flow Networks
        Session: RR 5 – Representation, Reasoning, Observability and Optimization
      • Nimrod Talmon and Ehud Shapiro
        Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale
        Session: COINE 2 – AI Alignment, Fairness and Ethics
      • Mireia Yurrita, Davide DellAnna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Catholijn M Jonker, Pinar Yolum
        Developing Guidelines for Human-LLM Agent Teams: A Multi-Stakeholder Lens
        Session: HAI 1 – Human-Agent Interaction
      • Yohai Trabelsi, Guojun Xiong, Fentabil Getnet, Stéphane Verguet, and Milind Tambe
        Health Facility Location in
        Ethiopia: Leveraging LLMs to Integrate Expert Knowledge into Algorithmic Planning
        Session: IA1 – LLM Applications
      • Baiqing Wang, Helei Cui, Bo Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu
        MeCo: Enhancing LLM-Empowered Multi-
        Robot Collaboration via Similar Task Memoization
        Session: ROBOT 2 – Multi-Robot Systems and Coordination

Pragnesh Jay Modi
Best Student Paper Nominees

  • Patrick Becker, Alexander Fries, Matthias Greger, and Erel Segal-Halevi
    Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
    Session: GTEP 11
  • Anwesha Das, John Duff, Jörg Hoffmann, and Vera Demberg
    Planning Ahead with RSA: Efficient Signalling in Dynamic Environments by Projecting User Awareness across Future Timesteps
    Session: HAI 1 – Human-Agent Interaction

  • Grant Douglas, Stephen Franklin, Claudia Szabo, and Mingyu Guo
    Building Large-Scale Drone Defenses from Small-Team Strategies
    Session: IA2
  • Jessica Lally, Milad Kazemi, and Nicola Paoletti
    Robust Counterfactual Inference in Markov Decision Processes
    Session: RR4
  • Yue Zhang, Zhe Chen, Daniel Harabor, Pierre Le Bodic, and Peter J. Stuckey
    Flow-Based Task Assignment for Large-Scale Online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
    Session: SOPS1 – Multi-Agent Path Finding

Best Blue Sky Papers

  • Nirav Ajmeri, Marina De Vos, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Vivek Nallur, Luis Gustavo Nardin, and Munindar P. Singh
    Guiding Sociotechnical Systems toward Value-Norm Equilibrium
    Session: Blue Sky 3
  • Florent Delgrange
    Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments
    Session: Blue Sky 1
  • Rustam Galimullin, Maksim Gladyshev, Munyque Mittelmann, and Nima Motamed
    The Dynamic Turn in Strategy Logics
    Session: Blue Sky 2