[agents] Final Call: AAMAS 2023 Blue Sky Ideas

[Amit Chopra]

 The Blue Sky Ideas special track is intended to present and provoke
visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and
controversial debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and
provocative research directions, 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 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. We invite
submissions that 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:

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   Relevance and Advancement (level of future thinking)
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      Are the ideas presented of interest to members of the Agents and MAS
      research communities?
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      Do the ideas push forward the envelope of Agents/MAS application into
      the future?
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   Novelty and Vision (level of “Blue Sky”-ness)
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      How much ideas are visionary (vs. state of the art), novel
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   Background and Foundation (level of grounded-ness)
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      Are the ideas motivated and grounded to a solid understanding of
      existing state-of-the-art and older foundational research/theory?
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      Do the ideas consider elatively new research ideas (e.g. published in
      the last 5 years)?
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   Impact and Practicality (level of real-world applicability)
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      How deep and wide is the envisioned impact of the ideas on the
      research in the Agents and MAS communities?
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      How deep and wide is the envisioned impact on the intended
      beneficiaries of the ideas presented, including practical considerations?
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   Rigour and Clarity (level of strength of contribution)
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      Are the ideas presented in a clear and rigorous way?
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      How strong is the level of critical reflection applied in the
      exploration of these ideas?

Important Dates

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   Abstract submission: December 5, 2022 (at 23:59 anywhere on earth)
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   Papers submission: December 12, 2022 (at 23:59 anywhere on earth)
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   Rebuttal period: January 18-25, 2023
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   Author notification: February 19, 2023
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   Camera-ready submission: March 19, 2023

Submission

Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS-2023 format, with
any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The
formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS-2023 main track.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be
presented orally at the conference.

The Blue Sky Ideas track follows the same policies as the main track.
Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one
author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the
conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of
presenting the paper at the conference.  See the
<https://aamas2021.soton.ac.uk/calls/papers/>main track call for papers
<https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/calls/call-for-papers/> for details.

Papers must be submitted via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamas23bsky

Note that this is a different EasyChair site from the one used by the main
track.
Contact

Blue Sky Ideas Track Co-Chairs

Prof Elizabeth Sklar, esklar at lincoln.ac.uk

Prof Gal Kaminka, galk at cs.biu.ac.il
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