AAMAS Calls and Scholarships
AAMAS features many different scientific tracks as well as workshops, tutorials, competitions, each with their own page limits, formatting instructions, submission deadlines, and websites.
Check the websites of the call of your interest and feel free to ask the track chairs any query related to your submission.
AAMAS supports attendance of students via scholarships: visit the scholarship application web page to discover how to apply.
AAMAS Main Track
The AAMAS Main Track is the larger track and welcomes the submission of full technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. If you are new to this community, then we encourage you to consult the proceedings of previous editions of the conference to fully appreciate the scope of AAMAS. At the time of submission, you will be asked to associate your paper with one of the following areas of interest: Learning and Adaptation (LEARN); Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI); Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP); Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE); Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS); Representation, and Reasoning (RR); Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS); Modeling and Simulation of Societies (SIM); Human-Agent Interaction (HAI); Robotics and Control (ROBOT); Innovative Applications (IA). A workshop outreach pipeline is also in place, to encourage submission of high quality papers from related workshops at sister AI conferences not been published in any archival proceedings.
Submission deadline:
October 01, 2025 (mandatory abstract)
October 08, 2025 (full paper)
Chairs:
Louise Dennis, Chris Amato aamas2026pcs@gmail.com
Blue Sky Ideas Track
The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate.
Submission deadline:
December 03, 2025 (mandatory abstract)
December 08, 2025 (full paper)
Chairs:
Ann Nowé ann.nowe@ai.vub.ac.be
JAAMAS Track
The JAAMAS Track (on invitation only) offers authors of papers recently published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS 2026.
Submission deadline:
January 06, 2026
Chairs:
Kate Larson, klarson@uwaterloo.ca
Toshiharu Sugawara, sugawara@waseda.jp
AAAI Track
The AAAI Track welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above).
Submission deadline:
November 17, 2025
Chair:
Bo An, boan@ntu.edu.sg
Demonstration Track
The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems.
Submission deadline:
January 09 January 12, 2026
Chairs:
Nardine Osman, nardine@iiia.csic.es
Fei Fang, feifang@cmu.edu
Doctoral Consortium
AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC). The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work and to get advice on managing your career.
Submission deadline:
January 19, 2026 (mandatory abstract)
January 23, 2026 (full contribution)
Chairs:
Reyhan Aydoğan, reyhan.aydogan@ozyegin.edu.tr
Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, p.k.murukannaiah@tudelft.nl
Workshops Proposals
We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops proposals that focus on emerging topics, open research questions and challenges, as well as broader subjects of interest to a wider community. Additionally, we welcome workshops with previous editions at AAMAS that can attract established communities working in the same research area.
Proposal submission deadline:
November 10, 2025
Chairs:
Debora Engelmann, Sebastian Rodriguez, aamas2026workshops@gmail.com
Tutorials Proposals
We invite proposals for the Tutorial Program, serving 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.
Proposal submission deadline:
January 16, 2026
Chairs:
Noa Agmon, agmon@cs.biu.ac.il
Competitions Proposals
We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community. We encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel application scenarios relevant to the AAMAS community. Submissions from established areas for which the competition may serve as a stimulus to advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young researchers in the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community.
November 10, 2025
Chairs:
Nardine Osman, nardine@iiia.csic.es
Fei Fang, feifang@cmu.edu
Scholarship Application
We will provide student scholarships aimed at assisting in partially covering travel and registration expenses for eligible students. To qualify, you must be currently (at the time of the conference, May 25, 2026) enrolled as a full-time student at a higher education institution, such as a university.
February 25, 2026
Chairs:
Roberta Calegari, roberta.calegari@unibo.it
Victor Lesser Award
IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2025 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.
The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications.
Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems.
Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (anywhere on earth)
Chair: Gauthier Picard, gauthier.picard@onera.fr
IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award
The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential.
This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference.
Award Selection Ccriteria:
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- Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS
- Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals;
- Broadly inspired the community
- Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field.
Publication Nomination Deadline: December 10
Materials to send: a full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper
Chair: Maria Gini, gini@umn.edu
Autonomous Agents Award
Nominations are solicited for the 2026 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and will be invited to present a plenary talk at the AAMAS 2026 conference.
Important Dates
- 15 December 2025 — Deadline for nominations
- 1 February 2026 — Announcement of winner
Industry Day
The AAMAS 2026 Industry Day brings together researchers from both academia and industry who develop, design, study and interact with autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
The Industry Day will be held on Thursday, May 28th. Companies are invited to present demonstrations of their products, innovations and technologies, alongside the AAMAS academic demonstration track.
By co-locating these demonstrations, AAMAS 2026 creates a place that encourages interaction among researchers from academia and industry, promoting discussion, collaboration, and knowledge exchange between them. It also helps connect participants from both worlds, promoting networking across communities, as well as career opportunities.
Click here for the AAMAS 2026 Industry Day interest form
Expression of Interset Deadline:
March 31, 2026
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