[agents] AAMAS-25: Call for Competitions

[Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos]

Dear all,

We invite you submit a proposal to the Competitions track of the 24th
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS-25),
to be held in Detroit, USA.


Best,
Gabriel

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See this call on the AAMAS 2025 website:
https://aamas2025.org/index.php/conference/calls/call-for-competitions

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Call for Competitions

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We are glad to announce the third edition of the AAMAS Competition track at
AAMAS 2025 to be held in Detroit, USA between May 19-23, 2025.


Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to
enhance discussions, share knowledge, and boost development and evaluation
of theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By
proposing challenging competitions to the AAMAS community, competition
proposers contribute to pushing the state-of-the-art in specific areas or
to solving problems of practical importance.


We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS
community. We encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel
application scenarios relevant to the AAMAS community. Submissions from
established areas for which the competition may serve as a stimulus to
advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young researchers in
the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that
have the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community.


Proposer(s) of accepted competition proposals will be encouraged to submit
a Demo paper at AAMAS 2026 summarising their experience at the 2025
conference.


At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register
and attend the conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to
announce the winners.



== Important Dates ==


Competition proposal deadline: January 15, 2025

Author notification: January 25, 2025

AAMAS 2025 Competitions: May 19-20, 2025


All deadlines are 11:59 PM, GMT.


== Submission Guidelines==


Competition proposals should be 2 to 4 pages in length and must be
electronically submitted before the submission deadline through OpenReview:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ifaamas.org/AAMAS/2025/Competitions_Track


The competition proposal should contain:
* A short title of the competition
* A brief description of the competition highlighting the aims and
objectives
* A brief history of the competition, if the competition was run in the past
* The relevance and importance of the competition for the AAMAS community
emphasising the significance and impact to specific AAMAS areas
* The timeline in milestones of the competition including but not limited
to (1) the release of the Call for Participation, (2) the submission
deadline, and (3) the participants notification
* The rules and guidelines for the competition
* The plan on sharing the results (e.g., open access to the teams' source
code)
* The software/hardware platforms and data sets to be used
* The competition evaluation criteria
* The expected number of participating teams
* The expected dates and duration of the competition
* The expected prizes (e.g., certificates, trophies) to which participants
* The specific requirements (e.g., physical space, network connection,
chairs, tables, monitors) for running the competition at the conference
* A brief bio of the proposer(s) highlighting their experience in (or
readiness for) organising competitions
* The contact information of the proposer(s) (i.e., full names,
affiliations, and institutional email addresses)


== Evaluation Criteria ==


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 and importance to AAMAS community
* Significance and expected impact to specific AAMAS areas
* Expected participation level
* Proposer(s) background/readiness level
* Release of results open access
* Specific requirements availability


== Contact ==


Please send all inquiries to the Competition track chairs Gabriel de
Oliveira Ramos (gdoramos at unisinos.br) and Zita Vale (zav at isep.ipp.pt).
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