[agents] AAMAS 2023: Call for Competitions

[Amit Chopra]

The organizing committee of AAMAS 2023 invites the community to submit
*proposals
for competitions*.

The conference organizers believe that competitions are an effective way to
make rapid progress on research topics and are important components of the
conference. By posing challenges to the AAMAS community, competition
organizers contribute to pushing the state-of-the-art in specific subjects
and/or solving problems of practical importance.

We encourage competition proposals from emerging fields or new application
scenarios relevant to AAMAS, and proposals from competitions held in
previous years at other venues. We highly value interdisciplinary topics
that have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the
community.
Submission Requirements

Competition proposals are short papers
<https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/calls/submission-instructions/> (2 pages
excluding references) containing the following information.

   - A brief bio of the proposer(s) highlighting their experience in (or
   readiness for) organizing competitions.
   - The aims and objectives of the competition.
   - A brief history of the competition, if it was run at other conferences
   in the past.


   - The relevance and importance of the competition for the AAMAS
   community.
   - The rules and guidelines for the competition.
   - The software/hardware platforms and data sets to be used.
   - The competition evaluation criteria.
   - The expected duration of the competition and any specific requirements
   (e.g., physical space, monitors) for conducting the competition at the
   conference.

Selection Process

The submission and selection processes for the competition proposals will
be separate from the main conference. Each submission will be assessed by
the Competition Program Committee, and the proposers will receive a brief
evaluation report. The evaluation criteria are:

   - Relevance to AAMAS
   - Significance
   - Expected participation level
   - Proposer(s) background/readiness level

Proposer (s) of accepted competition proposals will be encouraged to submit
a Demo paper at AAMAS 2024 summarizing their experience at the 2023
conference.
Important Dates

*November 28, 2022* – Submission deadline
*December 16, 2022* – Notification of acceptance/rejection
*January 20, 2023* – Call for Competition Participation

The global (in any time zone) deadline for the above dates will be 11:59 PM.
*Contact*

Please send all inquiries to the Competition Track chairs.

Rym Zalila-Wenkstern
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Dallas>University of
Texas at Dallas

Dengji Zhao
ShanghaiTech University
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