TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

The AAMAS 2026 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main conference in Cyprus. 

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

  • Introduce novices to major topics of AAMAS research.
  • Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.
  • Survey a mature area of AAMAS research or practice.
  • Motivate and explain an AAMAS topic of emerging importance. 
  • Introduce expert non-specialists to an AAMAS area. 
  • Survey an area of agent research especially relevant for people from industry. 
  • Present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AAMAS work. 
  • Introduce AAMAS audiences to an external topic that can motivate, use, or be useful to AAMAS research.  

Areas of interest include all of those listed in the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track).

Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate their request when submitting their proposal.

Important Dates

  • Proposal Submission: Jan 16, 2026
  • Organizer Notifications: Jan 30, 2026
  • Tutorial site available on the web:  Mar 04, 2026
  • Tutorial Forum Presentations: May 25-26, 2026

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

Conference Dates

  • Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops: May 25-26, 2026
  • Main Conference: May 27-29, 2026

Submission Requirement 

Tutorial Proposals - Submission Website

Each proposal must include a Tutorial Proposal file in pdf form, as follows:

Tutorial Proposals file should be 2 to 4 pages in length, formatted using the AAMAS paper template (available here), containing the following information:

  • A short title of the tutorial. 
  • A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. 
  • A detailed outline (up to a half page) of the tutorial, including preferred length.  Note that a half-day tutorial has 3.5 hours of technical content, 4 hours with breaks. A full-day tutorial has 7 hours of technical content, 9 hours with breaks.
  • Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge. 
  • A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the AAMAS audience.
  • A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone numbers, email address, website, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (ideally, a published tutorial-level article on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer’s presentation skills as applicable), and evidence of scholarship in the area. Information about previous tutorials delivered by the presenters (if any). All named presenters are expected to deliver the tutorial in person.
  • The name and e-mail address of the corresponding presenter. The corresponding presenter should be available for e-mail correspondence during the evaluation process, in the case clarifications and discussions on the scope and content of the proposal are needed. 

The evaluation of the proposal will consider the level of general interest for AAMAS attendees, the quality of the proposal, the feasibility of running it in the proposed mode, the expertise and skills of the presenters, and recent tutorials on the same or related topics at AAMAS.

We emphasize that the primary criteria for evaluation will be whether a proposal is interesting, well-structured, and motivated, rather than the perceived experience/standing of the proposer. 

The overall goal in the selection process is to compose a balanced program of excellent tutorials. Thus, even good proposals might be rejected. In the case of several closely related proposals the tutorial chairs might propose their authors to combine the proposals into a single tutorial.

Responsibilities (with respect to accepted proposals)

AAMAS will be responsible for the following:

  • Providing logistic support and a meeting place for tutorials. 
  • Together with the organizers, determining the tutorial date and time. 
  • Advertising the availability of the tutorial material to the AAMAS 2026 participants. 

Tutorial organizers will be responsible for the following: 

  • Creating a website for the tutorial and sending its link to the AAMAS 2026 Tutorial Chairs by March 04th 2026. The website should include: 
    • The title and abstract of the tutorial
    • Presenters’ details
    • A detailed outline of the tutorial
    • The slides to be used during the tutorial, along with any additional materials that may benefit attendees (e.g., lecture notes, recommended readings)
  • Presenting the tutorial in-person at AAMAS 2026. 

AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, if deadlines are missed, or if too few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of running the tutorial.

Submissions and Inquiries

Inquiries should be sent to agmon@cs.biu.ac.il and  tony.savarimuthu@otago.ac.nz , with title prepended with “[AAMAS’26 Tutorials]” .

Tutorial Chairs

Noa Agmon (Bar-Ilan University) https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/ 

Tony Savarimuthu (University of Otago) https://bastintonyroy.github.io/