[agents] Final Call for Nominations (Due March 8): 2015 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers

[Amit Chopra]

Please nominate your candidate today!

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2015 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems
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DUE DATE: 8 MARCH 2015

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-2015 in Istanbul, 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 April 2005 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 (200 words or fewer) arguing the
significance of the paper to Les Gasser (chair of the 2015 committee
for this award), gasser at illinois.edu

(Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)

Nominations are due by the 8th of March 2014.

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PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS
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2014
ONN SHEHORY AND SARIT KRAUS (1998).
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation. Artificial
Intelligence, vol. 101 (1-2), May 1998, pp. 165-200


2013
CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1998)
Modelling social action for AI agents. Artificial Intelligence, Volume
103, Issues 1-2, August 1998, Pages 157-182.

CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1995)
Commitment: From individual intentions to groups and organizations.
First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pages 41-49,
1995.


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.

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.