AAMAS 2027 - Call for Competition Proposals

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We are glad to announce the AAMAS Competition track at AAMAS 2027.

Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By proposing challenging competitions to the AAMAS community, competition proposers contribute to pushing the state-of-the-art in specific areas or to solving problems of practical importance.

We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community, encouraging submissions from both emerging and established areas or novel application scenarios. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community.

If the accepted competition involves the development of tools and platforms for supporting agent development, the proposer(s) will be encouraged to submit a Demonstration paper at AAMAS 2028 summarizing the design, development, and outcomes of their competition at the 2027 conference.

At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register and attend the conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to announce the winners.

Topics of Interest

We welcome competition proposals across the broad spectrum of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agentic AI and LLM-based multiagent systems: Collaborative reasoning, agent orchestration, task delegation, tool use, and autonomous multiagent workflows.

• Evaluation harnesses and benchmarks for multiagent AI: Platforms, environments, and testbeds for evaluating LLM-based agents, multiagent coordination, communication, cooperation, robustness, and emergent behaviors.

• Multiagent learning: Multiagent reinforcement learning, self-play, cooperative and competitive learning, ad hoc teamwork, and adaptation in dynamic environments.

• Multiagent planning and optimization: Distributed planning, decentralized constraint optimization, task and resource allocation, scheduling, and coordination under uncertainty.

• Game theory and strategic interaction: Automated negotiation, auctions, mechanism design, coalition formation, social choice, and cooperative and non-cooperative games.

• Multi-robot systems and embodied AI: Robot coordination, multi-robot navigation, collaborative manipulation, swarm intelligence, and human-robot teaming.

• Trustworthy and responsible multiagent systems: Safety, security, fairness, privacy, explainability, formal verification, and resilience to adversarial or misaligned agents.

• Agent communication and multiagent systems engineering: Communication protocols, interoperability, organizational structures, scalable architectures, and development frameworks for multiagent systems.

• Human-agent interaction and collective intelligence: Human-AI collaboration, mixed-initiative systems, preference aggregation, participatory decision-making, and hybrid human-agent teams.

• Multiagent applications and simulations: Competitions involving transportation, logistics, energy systems, cybersecurity, scientific discovery, social simulations, and other real-world domains.

Important Dates

• Competition Proposal Deadline: 5 December 2026

• Notification: 24 December 2026

• Author Registration Deadline: TBD

• AAMAS 2026 Competitions: 5-7 May 2027

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

Submission Guidelines

Competition proposals should be 2 to 4 pages in length and must be electronically submitted before the submission deadline through this Google form:

A competition proposal should include the following elements:

• Title of the competition

• Brief description outlining the competition’s aims and objectives

• Competition history, if applicable (e.g., whether it has been run at previous conferences)

• Relevance and importance of the competition to the AAMAS community, including its significance to specific research areas

• Timeline and milestones, including (but not limited to): (a) Release of the Call for Participation; (b) Submission deadline; (c) Participant notification.

• Competition rules and guidelines

• Plan for sharing results, such as providing open access to participants’ source code or competition datasets

• Software, hardware platforms, and datasets to be used

• Evaluation criteria used to judge submissions

• Expected number of participating teams

• Duration of the competition event during the conference (e.g., half day, one day)

• Expected prizes, such as certificates or trophies

• Logistical requirements for the competition event at the conference (e.g., physical space, power, tables, monitors)

• Brief bios of the organizers, highlighting their experience with or readiness to manage competitions

• Contact information of all proposers (full names, affiliations, and institutional email addresses)

Evaluation Criteria

The submission and selection processes for the competition proposals will be separate from the main conference. Each submission will be assessed by the Competition Program Committee, and the proposers will receive a brief evaluation report. The evaluation criteria are:

• Relevance and importance to the AAMAS community

• Significance and expected impact on specific AAMAS areas

• Expected participation level

• Qualifications and preparedness of the organizers

• Commitment to open access for results, code, and/or datasets

• Feasibility of logistics, including availability of required resources (e.g., space, equipment, connectivity)

Contact

Please send all inquiries to the Competition track chairs Reyhan Aydogan (reyhan.aydogan@ozyegin.edu.tr) and Ferdinando Fioretto (fioretto@virginia.edu).