[Event at CIG] AAMAS 2025: Call for Blue Sky Ideas

[Tim Baarslag]

Dear all,

Please find below the call for papers for The Blue Sky Ideas special track
of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2025) to be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on May 19-23,
2025.

We look forward to seeing you in Detroit!

Tim Baarslag and Thanh Nguyen

Publicity Chairs

On behalf of the AAMAS 2025 Organizing Committee

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Date: May 19-23, 2025

Location: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Web site:
https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/calls/call-for-blue-sky-ideas/

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The Blue Sky Ideas special track is intended to present and provoke
visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and
debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative
research directions, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and
presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards
followed in the review process of the main track of the conference.
Research visions and ideas can cross disciplines, envisioning new
directions relevant for Agents and advancing Multi-Agent Systems research
through interdisciplinary viewpoints.

We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and its
community within the broader AI and computing landscape. We invite
submissions that focus on novel, overlooked, or under-represented
application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths
for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and
computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds
for agent research. Overall, we aim at papers that help guide the agent
community to achieve in the coming years a leading position within AI and
computing research.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas25bluesky

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Important Dates

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   Abstract submission: December 10, 2024 (at 23:59 anywhere on Earth)
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   Paper submission: December 15, 2024 (at 23:59 anywhere on Earth)
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   Rebuttal period: January 10-15, 2025
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   Author notification: January 31, 2025
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   Camera-ready submission: Feb 19, 2025


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Evaluation Criteria

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Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria:

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   Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS
   research communities?
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   Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into
   the future?
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   How much are the ideas visionary (vs. state of the art), novel, or out
   of the box?


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   Are the ideas motivated and grounded in a solid understanding of the
   existing state-of-the-art and older foundational research/theory?
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   Do the ideas consider relatively new research ideas (e.g. published in
   the last 3 years)?
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   How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the research
   agenda in the Agents and MAS communities?
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   How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended beneficiaries
   of the ideas presented, including practical considerations?
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   Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way?
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   How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the
   exploration of these ideas?


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Submission

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Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS 2025 format, with
any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The
formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS 2025 main track.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be
presented orally at the conference.

The Blue Sky Ideas track follows the same policies as the main track.
Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one
author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the
conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of
presenting the paper at the conference.

Call for Papers:

https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/calls/call-for-papers-main-technical-track/

Submission Instructions:

https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/calls/submission-instructions-main-technical-track/


Papers must be submitted via EasyChair through the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas25bluesky

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Contact

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AAMAS 2025 Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs:

Nisarg Shah, University of Toronto, Canada nisarg at cs.toronto.edu

Paolo Turrini, University of Warwick, UK p.turrini at warwick.ac.uk