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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Third Call for Contributions to the Special Tracks ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>Systems (AAMAS 2026)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>May 25-29, 2026,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">We welcome submissions to the Special Tracks of AAMAS 2026. AAMAS 2026 will feature
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">five special tracks: AAAI Track, JAAMAS Track, Blue Sky Ideas Track, Demo Track, and
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Competitions Track, as well as the Doctoral Consortium.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>AAAI Track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> welcomes AAAI-25 submissions rejected from
the main AAAI track that </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">are relevant to the AAMAS research community and received no reject review
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">recommendations (all review scores are weak reject or above).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>JAAMAS Track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> offers authors of papers recently published
in the Journal of </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) that have not previously appeared</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">as full papers in an archival conference the opportunity to present their work at AAMAS</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2026.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The focus of the
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Blue Sky Ideas Track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> is on visionary ideas, long-term
challenges, new</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">research opportunities, and controversial debate.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Demo Track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> allows participants from both academia
and industry to showcase their </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Competitions Track</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> is an
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Finally, AAMAS invites PhD students working in the research areas covered by AAMAS to
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">take part in the
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Doctoral Consortium</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> (DC). The DC is an opportunity
to interact closely </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">with established researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">on your work and to get advice on managing your career.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The calls for each track above and for the Doctoral Consortium, along with the respective</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">important dates, are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Workshops and Tutorials
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Furthermore, AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>workshops</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> and
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>tutorials</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">. These will be
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">held on May 25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The objectives of the AAMAS 2026
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>workshop</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> program are to stimulate and facilitate</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Tutorials</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> will be half-day
long and will be in person \u2014 online/remote versions will not be</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">their request when submitting their proposal.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The calls for workshop and tutorial proposals, along with the respective important dates,
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">are available on the AAMAS 2026 web site.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Organizing Committee</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 General Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><u>AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs</u></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">\u2022
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">If you have additional questions, please contact the Program Chairs using
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">aamas2026pcs@gmail.com .</span></div>
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