[agents] Final Call for Competition Proposals at AAMAS 2023 (the initial track!)

[Dengji Zhao]

This year, the organizing committee of AAMAS 2023 invites the community to
submit proposals for competitions. This is for the first time to host a
competition track at AAMAS. *To incentivise the community to better
organise their competitions, we INITIATED the policy to allow
successful competitions publish their competition results in the next
year's demo track at AAMAS.*

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 (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
--February 10, 2023 – Submission deadline
--February 12, 2023 – Notification of acceptance/rejection
--February 28, 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 (University of Texas at Dallas) and Dengji Zhao
(ShanghaiTech University) (aamas23-competitions at easychair.org).
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