[agents] AAMAS2022 Special Track "Blue Sky Ideas" Call for Papers

[Brian Ravenet]

AAMAS2022 SPECIAL TRACK : BLUE SKY IDEAS TRACK - CALL FOR PAPERS 

Dear all, 

This is the Call For Papers for the Special Track of AAMAS2022 "Blue Sky
Ideas". 

The emphasis of this special track is on visionary ideas, long-term
challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. It
serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative ideas, and
aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without
being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the
review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and
ideas could cross disciplines, envisioning new ideas and directions
relevant for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems research community fostered
by inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary viewpoints. 

We encourage papers to reflect on the future of the research area and
its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. Therefore,
we invite submissions to focus on: novel, overlooked, or
under-represented application areas to which agent research may
contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the
state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way
around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research. Overall, we
aim at papers that help guide the agent community to achieve in the
coming years a leading position within AI and computing research. 

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Reviewers will assess papers based on the following criteria: 

	* RELEVANCE 

 	* How much the ideas concern Agents and MAS, relevant for the research
community

	* “LEVEL OF BLUE SKY” | NOVELTY 

 	* How much the ideas are visionary (vs. state of the art), novel

	* BACKGROUND 

 	* How much the ideas are motivated, ground to a solid understanding of
the existing state of the art

	* IMPACT 

 	* How deep and wide could be the impact of the ideas on the research
on Agents and MAS

	* RIGOUR 

 	* How much the ideas are presented in a clear and rigorous way, how
thorough is the level of critical reflection applied in the exploration
of these ideas

IMPORTANT DATES

 	* ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 29, 2021 (anywhere on earth)
 	* PAPERS SUBMISSION: DECEMBER 3, 2021 (anywhere on earth)
 	* REBUTTAL PERIOD: JANUARY 18-20, 2022
 	* AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: FEBRUARY 4, 2022
 	* CAMERA-READY SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SUBMISSION

Submissions are limited to 4 PAGEs in length in the AAMAS-2022 format,
with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The
formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS-2022 main track;
see the AAMAS-2022 main track call for papers [1] for details. Accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented
orally at the conference. 

Papers must be submitted at: 

AAMAS-2022 Blue Sky Ideas Track EasyChair Site [2] 

_Note that this is a different EasyChair site from the one used by the
main track._ 

The Blue Sky Ideas track follows the same policies as the main track. 
Submissions must be original, and reviewing is double-blind. See the
AAMAS-2022 main track call for papers [1] for details. 

CHAIRS

Bo An, Nanyang Technological University (boan at ntu.edu.sg) 

Kate Larson, University of Waterloo (kate.larson at uwaterloo.ca) 
-- 
Brian Ravenet - Maître de Conférences (IUT Orsay)
https://brianrave.net/
LISN - Campus Universitaire bâtiment 507 - Bureau 204
Rue du Belvédère
91405 Orsay 

Links:
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[1]
https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/calls/submission-instruction/
[2] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas2022blueskytrac
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