AAMAS 2026 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Coral Beach Hotel & Resort

May 25 - 30, 2026

Coral Beach Hotel & Resort

Paphos, Cyprus

May 25 - 30, 2026

Paphos, Cyprus

About the Conference

The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026) will be held 25–29 May 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and providing an internationally renowned high-profile forum for publishing and finding out about the latest developments in the field. AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

Subject Areas

Learning and Adaptation (LEARN) Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI) Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE) Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS) Representation and Reasoning (RR) Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS) Modeling and Simulation of (Artificial) Societies (SIM) Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) Robotics and Control (ROBOT) Innovative Applications (IA)

Keynote Speakers

Joanna Bryson

EurAI Keynote Speaker; Professor of Ethics and Technology · Hertie School, Berlin

Sabine Hauert

Professor of Swarm Engineering · University of Bristol

Sven Koenig

Chancellor’s Professor and Bren Chair · University of California, Irvine

Michael Wooldridge

Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence · University of Oxford

Important Dates

2025-10-01 Abstract Submission · Main Track; mandatory abstract CLOSED

2025-10-08 Paper Submission · Main Track CLOSED

2025-11-21 Rebuttal Period · Nov 21–25, 2025 CLOSED

2025-12-22 Author Notification CLOSED

2026-02-18 Camera-Ready Paper · Main Track CLOSED

2026-03-31 Author Registration Deadline CLOSED

2026-05-18 Late Registration Deadline · From May 18, 2026 CLOSED

2026-05-25 Conference Dates · May 25–29, 2026; Main Conference May 27–29 CLOSED

Call For Papers

Learning and Adaptation (LEARN)

Reasoning and learning under uncertainty Supervised learning Unsupervised and representation learning Reinforcement learning Multiagent learning Evolutionary and biologically inspired algorithms Learning agent capabilities Learning agent-to-agent interactions Human-in-the-loop learning Few-shot learning Distributionally-robust learning Adversarial learning

Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI)

Agency and learning in LLMs Learning for value alignment Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) Planning or learning for agentic processes/workflows Agentic decision aids Verification and safety of LLMs/agentic systems Modeling and analysis of generative AI agents Multi-agent training of LLM agents (Multi-turn) Instruction following of agents Evaluation of LLMs/agentic systems Cooperation and coordination of generative agents

Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP)

Auctions and Mechanism Design Bargaining and Negotiation Behavioural Game Theory Evolutionary Game Theory Non-Cooperative Games: Equilibrium Concepts Non-Cooperative Games: Computational Issues Non-Cooperative Games: Theory and Applications Voting and Preference Aggregation Social Choice and Social Networks Judgment Aggregation Fair Allocation Tournaments Matching Digital and Liquid Democracy Coalition Formation Cooperative Games

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics (COINE)

Coordination and teamwork Social network analysis Norms and normative systems Organizations and institutions Non-strategic coalition or team formation Communication, including using natural language Policy, regulation, and accountability Safety, robustness, trust, and reputation Ethical considerations, including bias, equity, fairness, privacy, safety, security, and transparency Values and preferences Agreement Technologies: Negotiation and Argumentation Responsible socio-technical systems Explainability and interpretability of norms and ethics in human-agent teams Ethical challenges of using LLMs for coordination and cooperation

Search, Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling (SOPS)

Single-agent planning and scheduling Multi-agent planning and scheduling Decentralized planning and scheduling Planning under uncertainty Combinatorial optimization Constraint programming Distributed constraint reasoning Resource and task allocation Non-strategic coalition formation Plan and goal recognition Human-aware planning and scheduling Knowledge Representation/Engineering for SOPS

Representation and Reasoning (RR)

Neurosymbolic approaches Argumentation Agent theories and models Explainability Logics for agent reasoning Ontologies for agents Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, goals, actions, plans, and change in multi-agent systems Reasoning and problem-solving in agent-based systems Verification of agents and multi-agent systems

Engineering and Analysis of Multiagent Systems (EMAS)

Requirements capture & formal specification of multi-agent systems Programming paradigms & languages for autonomous agents Runtime infrastructures and deployment platforms for scalable MAS (cloud, edge, and hybrid) Continuous verification, validation & certification pipelines Testing, debugging, and DevOps for large-scale agent ensembles Scalability, fault-tolerance & performance engineering of MAS platforms Engineering self-adaptive agents: lifecycle management, continuous evolution, and deployment pipelines Interoperability, business agreements & agent-to-agent protocols Declarative, logic-based, and BDI agent programming & architectures Engineering MAS-based simulations for rigorous analysis & experimentation Sociotechnical governance tools for norms, ethics & accountability Human-centred engineering for usability, transparency & explainability Open-source toolchains, benchmarks & reproducible MAS testbeds Engineering learning agents: platform design, online adaptation Engineering MAS with LLM methods Hybrid symbolic-subsymbolic agent systems: engineering architectures and platforms for neurosymbolic reasoning Benchmarks, evaluation methodologies, and reproducible workflows for MAS Data-driven engineering processes for design, testing, and adaptation of agent systems Engineering MAS-based autonomous systems

Modeling and Simulation of (Artificial) Societies (SIM)

Modeling for agent-based simulation Simulation of complex systems Modeling of societies and social simulations Public policies and evaluation Simulation techniques, tools, and platforms Analysis of agent-based simulations Calibration, Verification, and Validation of agent-based simulation systems Robustness, Reliability, and Trustworthiness of Agent-Based Simulations Design and implementation of large-scale simulation High-performance computing and frameworks Interactive and participatory simulation LLM-based simulation

Human-Agent Interaction (HAI)

Human-agent interaction Agent-based analysis of human interactions Socially interactive agents Trust and explainability in human-agent interactions Human-robot interaction and collaboration Social robotics and social interactions Mixed-initiative and shared autonomy in human-agent interactions Groups of humans and agents Agent models and architectures for interaction with humans Design for human-agent interaction Virtual humans

Robotics and Control (ROBOT)

Coordination and collaboration in robotic systems Swarm and multi-robot collective behavior Robots in adversarial settings Perception and vision Networked systems and distributed robotics Foundation models for robotic agents Knowledge representation and reasoning in robotic systems Robot planning Mapping, localization and navigation Manipulation Robot control Robot learning Long-term (or lifelong) autonomy for robotic systems Execution monitoring and failure recovery for robots Robot modeling and simulation Explainability, trust and ethics for robots

Innovative Applications (IA)

Deployed or emerging applications of agent-based systems Realistic agent-based models of human organizations Evaluation of the cognitive capabilities of agent-based systems Integrated applications of agent-based and other technologies Challenges and best practices of real-world deployments of agent-based technologies

Publication & Indexing

PublisherInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)

IndexingACM Digital Library; OpenReview

Conference Organization

In cooperation with

International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS) EasyConferences Ltd.

Organized by

University of Cyprus

Committee

General Chairs

Viviana Mascardi

University of Genova, Italy

John Thangarajah

RMIT University, Australia

Program Chairs

Chris Amato

Northeastern University, United States of America

Louise Dennis

University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Local Organizing Chair

George A. Papadopoulos

Prof. · University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organizing Vice Chair

Panayiotis Kolios

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organizing Committee

Yannis Dimopoulos

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Antonis Kakas

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Kleanthis Malialis

KOIOS Research and Innovation Centre, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Publication Chairs

Rafael Cardoso

University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Mengwei Xu

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Silver Jubilee Chairs

Jaime Simão Sichman

University of São Paulo, Brazil

Felipe Leno da Silva

Microsoft, USA

Workshop Chairs

Débora Cristina Engelmann

Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Health, Brazil

Sebastian Rodriguez

RMIT University, Australia

Tutorial Chairs

Noa Agmon

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu

University of Otago, New Zealand

JAAMAS Track Chairs

Kate Larson

University of Waterloo, Canada

Toshiharu Sugawara

Waseda University, Japan

AAAI Track Chair

Bo An

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Blue Sky Ideas Track Chairs

Ann Nowé

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Michael Winikoff

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Demonstration and Competition Chairs

Fei Fang

Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America

Nardine Osman

Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Spain

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

Reyhan Aydoğan

Özyeğin University, Turkey

Pradeep Murukannaiah

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Scholarship Chairs

Roberta Calegari

Università di Bologna, Italy

Hadi Hosseini

Penn State University, United States of America

Publicity Chairs

George A. Papadopoulos

Prof. · University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Alexandru Sorici

National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Sponsorship Chairs

Panayiotis Kolios

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Reshef Meir

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Safety and Inclusion Chairs

Zahra Ghorrati

Purdue University, United States of America

Mor Vered

Monash University, Australia

Area Chair (LEARN)

Bo An

Vincent Corruble

Yali Du

Ferdinando Fioretto

Sarah Keren

Yasser Mohammad

Francisco Cruz Naranjo

Tan Minh Nguyen

Karthik Sankararaman

Kun Shao

Area Chair (GAAI)

Prashant Doshi

Kagan Tumer

Kate Larson

Karl Tuyls

Area Chair (GTEP)

Niclas Boehmer

Noam Hazon

Omer Lev

Miming Li

Shuai Li

Neeldhara Misra

Svetlana Obraztsova

Maria Silvia Pini

Alan Tsang

Area Chair (COINE)

Nirav Ajmeri

Reyhan Aydoğan

Jaime Simão Sichman

Area Chair (SOPS)

Roman Barták

Sara Bernardini

Filippo Bistaffa

Area Chair (RR)

Roberta Calegari

Brian Logan

Vanina Martinez

Valentina Tamma

Area Chair (EMAS)

Leandro Buss Becker

Angelo Ferrando

Zahia Guessoum

Area Chair (SIM)

Shah Jamal Alam

Franziska Klügl

Fabian Lorig

Area Chair (HAI)

Beatrice Biancardi

Brittany Duncan

Matthias Scheutz

Area Chair (ROBOT)

Nicola Basilico

Maria Gini

Area Chair (IA)

Zehong (Jimmy) Cao

Gauthier Picard

Distinguished Program Committee

Ana L. C. Bazzan

UFRGS

Alberto Castellini

University of Verona

Saar Cohen

University of Oxford

Théo Delemazure

University of Amsterdam

Alain Dutech

INRIA

Babak Esfandiari

Carleton University

Minghong Geng

Singapore Management University

Matthias Greger

Université Paris Dauphine

Jean-Paul Jamont

Université Grenoble Alpes

Daniel Jarne Ornia

University of Oxford

Jeremy Vollens

Northwestern University

Andrzej Kaczmarczyk

Czech Technical University of Prague

Charalampos Kleitsikas

King’s College London

Martin Koutecky

Charles University Prague

Junjie Luo

Beijing Jiaotong University

Leandro Soriano Marcolino

VinUniversity

Apurva Narayan

University of Western Ontario

Jannik Peters

National University of Singapore

Manon Prédhumeau

IRIT, Toulouse Capitole University

Manel Rodriguez-Soto

Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council

Alexander Schlenga

University of Munich

Ildikó Schlotter

ELTE Centre of Economic and Regional Studies

Magdalena Tydrichova

Centrale Supelec

Pascal Van der Vaart

Delft University of Technology

Roland Yap

National University of Singapore

Distinguished Senior Program Committee

Francesco Amigoni

Politecnico di Milano

Pascal Bercher

Australian National University

Martin Bullinger

University of Bristol

Rafael C. Cardoso

University of Aberdeen

Giovanni Ciatto

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Ulle Endriss

University of Amsterdam

Edith Elkind

Northwestern University

Antonio Rago

King’s College London

Davide Grossi

University of Amsterdam

Alboz Geramifard