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The Blue Sky Ideas special track is intended to present and provoke visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative research directions, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new directions relevant for Agents and advancing Multi-Agent Systems research through interdisciplinary viewpoints.<\/span><\/p>\n We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite submissions that focus on novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve in the coming years a leading position within AI and computing research.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/openreview.net\/group?id=ifaamas.org\/AAMAS\/2026\/Blue_Sky_Ideas_Track#tab-recent-activity” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Blue Sky Ideas: Submission” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_use_icon=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ header_3_text_color=”#6c6866″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria:<\/span><\/p>\n Relevance and Advancement (level of future-thinking)<\/b><\/p>\n Novelty and Vision (level of \u201cBlue Sky\u201d-ness)<\/b><\/p>\n Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness)<\/b><\/p>\n Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability)<\/b><\/p>\n Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution)<\/b><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Submissions are limited to <\/span>4 pages<\/b> in length in the AAMAS 2026 format, with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS 2026 main track. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n The Blue Sky Ideas track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of presenting the paper at the conference.\u00a0 See the Call for Papers (Main Technical Track)<\/a> and Submission Instructions<\/a> for details.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n AAMAS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs<\/b><\/p>\n Ann Now\u00e9, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium ann.nowe@ai.vub.ac.be<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nImportant Dates<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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