AAMAS 2027 - Call for Tutorials

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The AAMAS 2027 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program, to be held on May 3-4, 2027, immediately before the main conference in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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.

Special Focus: This year, we particularly encourage proposals that (a) discuss agentic AI systems, especially in ways that connect them to core AAMAS themes, (b) build new bridges between different (sub)-communities, for example by introducing to one community methods or problem settings that have traditionally been part of a different community, or (c) are designed to be interactive, going beyond a standard lecture format, e.g., by devoting substantial time to discussion, exchange, or hands-on activities.

Accessibility for Students and Newcomers: We encourage tutorial proposers to design their tutorials so that they are accessible and engaging for students and other attendees who are new to the topic. Depending on the tutorial, this may include introducing the necessary background during the tutorial, providing preparatory material in advance, making extensive use of illustrative examples, including hands-on exercises, or reserving time for questions and discussion.

Areas of interest include all of those listed in the Call for Main Track.

Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be accepted. A small number of full-day tutorials may be considered, but proposers must justify this request in their submission.

Important Dates

• Proposal Submission: December 10, 2026
• Organizer Notifications: December 30, 2026
• Tutorial site Available on the Web: February 10, 2027
• Tutorials: May 3-4, 2027

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

Conference Dates

• Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops: May 3-4, 2027
• Main Conference: May 3-7, 2027

Submission Requirement 

Each proposal must include a single tutorial proposal file in PDF format. The proposal should be 2 to 4 pages in length, formatted using the AAMAS paper template (available here), and should contain the following information:

• A short title of the tutorial.
• Indicate whether your tutorial falls under one or more of the three special-focus categories (agentic AI, cross-community, interactive), and briefly explain how.
• 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 and how the tutorial will accommodate attendees who are new to the topic.
• 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, 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 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 may ask the authors to merge them 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 2027 participants.

Tutorial organizers will be responsible for the following:

• One tutorial organizer will need to register for the conference by the early registration deadline (around mid-March).
• Creating a website for the tutorial and sending its link to the AAMAS 2027 Tutorial Chairs by February 10, 2027. 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 (can also be added at a later point)
• Presenting the tutorial in-person at AAMAS 2027.

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 niclas.boehmer@hpi.de and minming.li@cityu.edu.hk, with the subject line prefixed by “[AAMAS’27 Tutorials]”.
If the submission via the submission form does not work for you, feel free to send the proposal to our email addresses instead.

Tutorial Chairs

Niclas Boehmer (Hasso Plattner Institute) https://www.niclas-boehmer.com/

Minming Li (City University of Hong Kong) https://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~minmli/