Call for Workshops

AAMAS 2025 invites proposals for the workshop program, which will be held on May 19–20, 2025, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference.

The objectives of the AAMAS 2025 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2025 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development.

We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops 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.

Workshops may vary in length from half a day to two days, though most are expected to last one full day. Attendance will be limited to registered participants, and both organizers and attendees must register for their workshop, which will have a separate fee from the main conference. Workshop attendees are not required to register for the main AAMAS conference if they do not plan to attend it, though this is highly encouraged.

AAMAS 2025 will be an in-person event in Detroit, United States. AAMAS 2025 reserves the right to cancel workshops if attendance does not cover their operating costs.

Important Dates

Proposal submission deadline: November 11, 2024 AoE
Acceptance notification: December 4, 2024
Workshops announced: December 11, 2024
Deadline for posting workshops call for papers: December 17, 2024
Recommended deadline for paper submissions to workshops: February 4, 2025
Recommended deadline for paper acceptance notification: March 10, 2025 (Tentative)
Deadline for submitting complete workshop notes to workshop chairs: March 30, 2025 (Tentative)
Deadline for posting the call for participation: March 30, 2025 (Tentative)
AAMAS 2025 workshops: May 19–20, 2025

Requirements for Submission

Workshop proposals must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file. Items 1–11 should be combined into a document no longer than five pages and must include the following information:

Title and acronym of the workshop.
A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop’s goals, the technical issues that it will address, the relevance of the workshop to the main conference, and a brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
A preliminary workshop format and a proposed schedule for organizing the workshop, including the desired length. Please include a brief description of how the organizers plan to encourage an atmosphere appropriate for a workshop and indicate whether you intend to have any activities other than contributed talks (e.g., invited talks, panels, or posters).
A list of related workshops held in the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Please include the following information, when available: when and where they have been offered in the past (i.e., at AAMAS or another conference), organizers’ names and affiliations, number of submitted/accepted papers, approximate attendance, and follow-up publications (e.g., journal special issues). For workshops with previous editions (even if they had different titles or were not held at AAMAS), please include a list of URLs for the websites of those editions.
Description of the paper review process and acceptance standards.
The proposed workshop organizers’ names, affiliations, URLs, and email addresses. This committee must consist of two to four people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. The organizing committee should include individuals from multiple institutions across different regions. By submitting the workshop proposal, the organizers commit to fulfilling their responsibilities, outlined below in the “Responsibilities” section.
The name of the primary contact of the workshop’s organizing committee.
A list of potential program committee members, including their titles and affiliations.
A tentative list of places (mailing lists, websites, journals, etc.) where the workshop is planned to be advertised.
A list of audio-visual requirements and any special room setup the workshop organizers anticipate needing. Additionally, please specify whether posters will be presented (and if so, how many you expect to display).
If available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees.

In addition to the above items, please include a brief resume (maximum half a page) for each organizing committee member. Resumes will not count toward the proposal’s page limit. Please focus on each committee member’s qualifications that are relevant to organizing an AAMAS workshop. Include a list of key publications demonstrating expertise in the field and a list of any workshops they have previously organized, if any. Please note that strong proposals should include organizers who offer diverse perspectives on the workshop topic and are actively engaged with the communities of potential participants.

Selection Criteria

Workshop selection for the final program will be based on several factors, including the scientific and technical relevance of the topics to the AAMAS community, the clarity of the proposal, the innovative character of the workshop topics, its cross-disciplinary nature, the organizers’ ability to lead a successful workshop, and the overall capacity of the conference workshop program. Please note that AAMAS may ask proposers with similar or overlapping content areas to merge their workshops.

Responsibilities

For all accepted proposals, AAMAS will be responsible for:

Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.
Together with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
AAMAS reserves the right to cancel workshops, for instance, if there is a low number of registrants.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for:

Setting up a website for the workshop.
Advertising the workshop and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation (by the recommended deadlines) .
Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process.
All workshop organizers are strongly encouraged to follow the paper submission and notification deadlines discussed earlier in this document. Dates that are noted as tentative will be finalized and circulated in early 2025. Both workshop organizers and participants must register for the workshop and are encouraged to register for the main conference. At least one author must register for the workshop for their paper to be included in the workshop proceedings. AAMAS reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled.

Submission Instructions

Workshop proposals must be submitted via OpenReview using the following link:

AAMAS 2025 Workshop Proposal Submission Site

Submissions should be a single PDF file not exceeding 5 pages, with an additional one-page CV for each organizer. In the submission page you will be asked to complete a short form, including a short abstract (feel free to keep it very short), and to upload your single PDF file.

If you don’t have an OpenReview profile, we recommend that you create one using your institutional email address. New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process, by OpenReview, that can take up to two weeks. If you opt for this, consider creating your profile asap.

The deadline for submission is November 11, 2024, End of Day Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).

Questions

Please direct any questions to the AAMAS 2025 Workshop Co-Chairs:

Bahar Rastegari ([email protected])
Bruno Castro da Silva ([email protected])