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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>Systems (AAMAS 2026)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>May 25-29, 2026,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=YW5ub3VuY2VtZW50cwkJCWFubm91bmNlbWVudHNAdWJpY29tcC5vcmcJVGhlIDI1dGggSW50ZXJuYXRpb25hbCBDb25mZXJlbmNlIG9uIEF1dG9ub21vdXMgQWdlbnRzIGFuZCBNdWx0aWFnZW50IFN5c3RlbXMgKEFBTUFTIDIwMjYpOiBMYXN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFdvcmtzaG9wIGFuZCBDb21wZXRpdGlvbiBQcm9wb3NhbHMJNDQwCUFBTUFTMjAyNgkxNzgJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Faamas2026%2F">https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/</a></b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Workshops</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for the workshop program, which will be held on May
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">proposals that focus on emerging topics, open research questions and challenges, as well
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">as broader subjects of interest to a wider community. Additionally, we welcome workshops
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">with previous editions at AAMAS that can attract established communities working in the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">same research area.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Workshops may vary in length from half a day to two days, though most are expected to
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">last one full day. Attendance will be limited to registered participants, and both organizers
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and attendees must register for their workshop, which will have a separate fee from the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">main conference. Workshop attendees are not required to register for the main AAMAS
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference if they do not plan to attend it, though this is highly encouraged.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">AAMAS 2026 will be an in-person event in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS 2026 reserves the right
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">to cancel workshops if the registration numbers do not cover their operating costs.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Competitions</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We are glad to announce the third edition of the AAMAS Competition track at AAMAS</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2026.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By proposing challenging
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">competitions to the AAMAS community, competition proposers contribute to pushing the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">state-of-the-art in specific areas or to solving problems of practical importance.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community. We
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel application scenarios relevant to the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">AAMAS community. Submissions from established areas for which the competition may
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">serve as a stimulus to advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">researchers in the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">If the accepted competition involves the development of tools and platforms for</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">supporting agent development, the proposer(s) will be encouraged to submit a
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Demonstration paper at AAMAS 2027 summarizing the design, development, and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">outcomes of their competition at the 2026 conference.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register and attend the
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to announce the winners.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Important Dates (AoE)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Workshop Proposals</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Notification: December 3, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Workshops Announcement: December 10, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Deadline to Post CFP & Website: December 17, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Recommended Paper Deadline: February 4, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Recommended Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Workshops: May 25-26, 2026</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>Competition Proposals</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Notification: December 3, 2025</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022 Competitions: May 25-26, 2026</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Organizing Committee</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 General Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)</span></div>
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