The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems or AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems. It is annually organized by a non-profit organization called the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

History

The AAMAS conference is a merger of three major international conferences/workshops, namely International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), and International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). As such, this highly respected joint conference provides a quality forum for discussing research in this area.

Current and Previous Conferences

The next AAMAS conference (AAMAS-11) is scheduled to be held from May 2, 2011 to May 6, 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan.

A list of previous AAMAS conferences is as follows:

• 2010: Toronto, Canada
• 2009: Budapest, Hungary
• 2008: Estoril, Portugal
• 2007: Honolulu, USA
• 2006: Hakodate, Japan
• 2005: Utrecht, The Netherlands
• 2004: New York, USA
• 2003: Melbourne, Australia
• 2002: Bologna, Italy

Activities

Besides the main program that consists of a main track, an industry and applications track, and a couple of special area tracks, AAMAS also hosts over 20 high quality workshops (e.g., AOSE, COIN, DALT, ProMAS, to mention a few) and many tutorials. There is also a demonstration session and a doctoral symposium. Finally, each year AAMAS features a bunch of awards, most notably the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award.

See also

• The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.