[Event at CIG] MASO 2026: The 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent and Agentic Systems in Organizations

[Yazan MUALLA]

MASO 2026: The 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent and Agentic Systems in Organizations
Kumamoto, Japan, December 14-17, 2026
Submission link   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maso2026
Submission deadline     October 10, 2026
Topics: agentic ai language models multiagent system enterprise automation
The rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI is transforming autonomous systems from isolated agents into interconnected, highly specialized networks of collaborative agents. Modern organizations are evolving into hybrid ecosystems where human workers collaborate alongside heterogeneous agents powered by LLMs, symbolic reasoning, and external integrations.

While the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) community brings decades of expertise in distributed decision-making and coordination, the operational deployment of agentic AI in organizations introduces novel socio-technical challenges. MASO 2026 aims to bridge the theoretical, operational, and governance gaps in deploying multi-agent and agentic systems within both private enterprise and public sector organizations.

We bring together researchers and practitioners across MAS, Agentic AI, Information Systems, Organizational Theory, Human-AI Collaboration, and Ethics to shape the future of AI.

Important Dates
Paper Submission: October 10th , 2026

Author notification: November 12th, 2026

Camera Ready Submissions: November 26th, 2026

Workshop Date: December 14th, 2026

NOTE: All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.

Full Research Papers: Original, unpublished research contributions presenting thorough theoretical or empirical results (maximum 16 pages excluded references)
Short Papers: Work-in-progress, novel concepts, or preliminary experimental evaluations. (maximum 8 pages excluded references)
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers must be fully anonymised prior to submission by removing all author names, affiliations, and identifying references. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and for PRIMA 2026.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maso2026

Proceedings: Publisher and indexing details are currently under negotiation and will be updated as soon as possible.



List of Topics


The workshop welcomes original theoretical, methodological, empirical, and design-oriented contributions on multi-agent and agentic systems in organizational settings. Interdisciplinary contributions are welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to:


Agent Architectures and Orchestration

Centralized, decentralized, and hybrid architectures
Orchestration of agents across organizational processes
Agent composition, workflow management, task decomposition, and delegation
Agent role, specialization, lifecycle, state, and resource management
Interoperability and Enterprise Integration of Agents

Agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication
Communication protocols, standards, and semantic interoperability
Integration with enterprise platforms, APIs, databases, and tools
Authentication, authorization, access control, and identity management
Multi-Agent Coordination and Distributed Decision-Making in Organizations

Distributed planning, problem-solving, and decision-making
Task allocation, scheduling, and resource allocation
Negotiation, consensus, coalition formation, and conflict resolution
Coordination under uncertainty, incentive mechanisms, and emergent organizational behavior
Human–Agent Collaboration in Organizational Settings

Delegation, team adaptation, and socio-technical dynamics
Human–agent teams and hybrid intelligence
Human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, and mixed-initiative workflows
Allocation of roles, tasks, decision rights, and responsibilities between humans and agents
Organizational Learning, Agent Adaptation, Memory, and Knowledge Management

Continual, collaborative learning
Agent adaptation, personalization, and context awareness
Individual, shared, episodic, and organizational memory
Organizational knowledge creation, transfer, retention, retrieval, and reuse
Knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented systems, and cross-agent learning
Governance, Accountability, and Compliance of Agents

Governance models for agentic and multi-agent ecosystems in organizations
Allocation of responsibility, accountability, authority, and liability
Regulatory compliance, standards alignment
Trust, Safety, Security, Privacy, and Reliability of Agentic Systems in Organizations

Robustness, resilience, transparency, explainability, and uncertainty awareness
Privacy-preserving agent interaction and organizational data protection
Detection and mitigation of cascading, and systemic failures
Evaluation, Benchmarking

Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, simulations, and organizational testbeds
Metrics for agent autonomy, coordination, alignment, reliability, and safety
Evaluation of human–agent and multi-agent team performance
Organizational productivity, quality, cost
Organizational Design and Socio-Technical Transformation

Effects of agentic systems on organizational structures
Organizational readiness, adoption, and change management
Institutional implications and the evolving role of human expertise
Applications and Deployment of Agentic Systems in Organizations

Agentic systems in public-, private-, and nonprofit-sector organizations
Applications in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing
Organizational case studies, field experiments, and deployment experiences
Adoption barriers, scaling challenges, implementation practices, and lessons learned
Committees
Program Committee
Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Adeel Ahmad, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France
Joaquin Delgado, Encevo group, Luxembourg
Stefano Tedeschi, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy
Alaa Daoud, Université Polytechnique de Hauts de France, France
Afshin Khadangi, University of Luxembourg
Diderot Cidjeu, Sahel Lab, Burkina Faso
Horia Modran, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
Alexandre Lombard, UTBM, France
Asma Arab, UTBM, France
Justin Moskolai, University of Douala, Cameroon
Avleen Malhi, University of Warwick, UK
Yanming Liu, Zhejiang University, China
Damien Sambo, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France
Sukriti Bhattacharya, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Syrine Haddad, UTBM, France
Jean Louis Fendji, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Etienne Ndamalabin, INRIA, France
Amir Sartipi, University of Luxembourg
Rachele Carli, Umea University
Eskandar Kouicem, Snowflake, France
Ephraim Sinyabe, ENSAI, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Shiva Kumar Bhuram, Dorman Products, United States
Hedi Tebourbi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Afef Hfaiedh, National Engineering School of Tunis, University Of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Tasnim Assali, National School of Computer Sciences, Manouba University, Tunisia
Hasan Alkhder, Sakarya University, Türkiye
Muhsen Almustafa, Independent Researcher
Munzir Alradi, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia
Ayoub Alzahim, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia
Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Mickael Bettinelli, LISTIC, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France
Berk Buzcu, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Davide Calvaresi, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Rémy Chaput, No affiliation
Giovanni Ciatto, University of Bologna, Italy
Andrei Coman, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Victor Hugo Contreras Ordoñez, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Valerio Crocetti, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Lora Fanda, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Kary Främling, Umeå University, Sweden
Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Victor Gimenez-Abalos, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Rafik Hadfi, Kyoto University, Japan
Brent Harrison, University of Kentucky, USA
Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan
Simone Lenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, University of Alcalá, Spain
Matteo Magnini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Mattia Matteini, University of Bologna, Italy
Sara Montese, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Amro Najjar, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Elia Pacioni, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Alessandro Palma, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Matteo Pasquino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Thiago Raulino Dal Pont, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, University of León, Spain
Federico Sabbatini, University of Urbino, Italy
Paolo Sernani, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Simona Tiribelli, University of Macerata, Italy
Cédric Travelletti, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
Mario Trerotola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Robert Wortham, University of Bath, UK
Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Hui Zhao, Tongji University, China


Organizing Committee
Igor Tchappi — SnT, University of Luxembourg
Yazan Mualla — UTBM, France
Rachele Carli, Umea University
Amro Najjar — Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
Leon van der Torre — University of Luxembourg
Invited Speakers - Keynote Speakers
Raian Ali, Bin Khalifa University and UNESCO Chair
Sergio Potenciano Menci, Head and Project Manager at Encevo group SA, Luxembourg
Rachele Carli, Umea University
Venue
The conference will be held in Kumamoto, Japan on December 14, 2026.

Contact
Website of the workshop: https://maso.uno/

All questions about submissions should be emailed to rachele.carli at umu.se or igor.tchappi at uni.lu