[agents] Call for Nominations: 2013 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

[Edmund Durfee]

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** Call for Nominations ***

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2013 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 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 proven 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-2013 in St. Paul in May.  Winning papers must have been published at
least 10 years before the award presentation, therefore this year's
eligible set comprises papers published in 2003 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 Ed Durfee (chair of the 2013 committee for this award),
durfee at umich.edu. (Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)

Nominations are due by the 15th of February 2013.

2013 Influential Paper Award Committee:
Ed Durfee (chair), Toru Ishida, Kate Larson, and Michal Pechoucek

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Previous Award Winners

2012
MILIND TAMBE (1997)
Towards Flexible Teamwork", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 7,
pp 83-124.

MICHAEL P. WELLMAN (1993)
A market-oriented programming environment and its application to
distributed multicommodity flow problems." Journal of Artificial
Intelligence Research, 1, pp. 1-23.

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.