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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Last Call for Nominations for the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award ***</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>
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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: 18px; color: #000000;"><b><u>2026 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award</u></b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS)
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">in 2006 established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential
and long-lasting contributions. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that
has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at <a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=ZmctYXJjCQkJZmctYXJjQGxpc3RzLnVuaS1wYWRlcmJvcm4uZGUJQUFNQVMgMjAyNjogTGFzdCBDYWxsIGZvciBOb21pbmF0aW9ucyBmb3IgdGhlIDIwMjYgSUZBQU1BUyBJbmZsdWVudGlhbCBQYXBlciBBd2FyZAk0NjEJQUFNQVMyMDI2CTE3OAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifaamas.org%2Faward-influential.html">
http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html</a> .</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">This award is presented annually at 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;">Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the first day of the conference. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2026
award must have been published earlier than May 2016, and in a recognized scientific forum (e.g., journal, conference, or workshop).</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 criteria that will be considered in the selection for the award are:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">1. Opened up new research line(s) within and even outside AAMAS;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">2. Broad impact, e.g. started new fields, new conferences, new journals;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">3. Broadly inspired the community;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">4. Posed and/or solved an issue seen as fundamental to the field.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">To nominate a publication for this award, please send by
</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>December 10, 2025</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> the full
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing for the significance of the paper to the chair of the 2026 IFAAMAS Influential
Paper Award committee, </span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>Maria Gini (gini@umn.edu)</b></span><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">.</span></div>
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