[agents] Call for Nominations: IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

[AAMAS 2012 Publicity Chair]

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** Call for Nominations ***

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2012 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems                    
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In 2006 The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems established an award to recognize publications that have made
influential and long-lasting contributions to the field.  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 is appended below.

This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference, in this case
AAMAS-2012 in Valencia in June.  Winning papers must have been published at
least 10 years before the award presentation, therefore this year's eligible
set comprises papers published in 2002 or earlier, in any recognized forum
(journal, conference, workshop).

To nominate a publication for this award, please send the full reference
plus a brief statement (150 words or fewer) about the significance of the
paper to Jeff Rosenschein (chair of the 2012 committee for this award),
jeff at cs.huji.ac.il. (Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)

Nominations are due by February 3, 2012.

2012 Influential Paper Award Committee:
Ed Durfee, Carles Sierra, Liz Sonenberg, Jeff Rosenschein (chair)

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Previous Award Winners

2011
YOAV SHOHAM (1993)
Agent-oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, 60, pp. 51-92.

2010
YOKOO, M. DURFEE, E. H., ISHIDA, T. & KUWABARA, K. (1998) The Distributed
Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms. IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 10:673-685.

TOGETHER WITH

YOKOO, M. & HIRAYAMA, K. (1996)
Distributed Breakout Algorithm
for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems Second
International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-96), pp.401-408.

2009
The award was given to the series of edited collections of papers on
Distributed AI published in the late 1980s:

HUHNS. M. H. (Ed.) (1987)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence. London, Pitman.

BOND, A. & GASSER, L. (Eds.) (1988)
Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. San Mateo, CA, Morgan
Kaufmann.

GASSER L. & HUHNS, M. H. (Eds.) (1989)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Volume II). Pitman and Morgan Kaufmann.

2008
BRATMAN, M. E., ISRAEL, D. J. & POLLACK, M. E. (1988) Plans and
resource-bounded practical reasoning. Computational Intelligence, 4,
349-355.

DURFEE, E. H. & LESSER, V. R. (1991) Partial global planning: A coordination
framework for distributed hypothesis formation. IEEE Transactions on
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21, 1167-1183.

2007
GROSZ, B. J. & KRAUS, S. (1996) Collaborative plans for complex group
action. Artificial Intelligence, 86, 269-357.

RAO, A. S. & GEORGEFF, M. P. (1991) Modeling rational agents within a
BDI-architecture. Second International Conference on Principles of Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning.

ROSENSCHEIN, J. S. & GENESERETH, M. R. (1985) Deals among rational agents.
Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence.                              

2006
COHEN, P. R. & LEVESQUE, H. J. (1990) Intention is choice with commitment.
Artificial Intelligence, 42, 213-261.

DAVIS, R. & SMITH, R. G. (1983) Negotiation as a metaphor for
distributed problem solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20, 63-109.    

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