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AAMAS 2011 Call for Nominations
2011 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
In 2006 The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems established an award to recognize publications that have made influential and long-lasting contributions to the field. Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result, led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners of this award is appended below.

This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference, in this case AAMAS 2011 in Taipei in May. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the award presentation; therefore this year's eligible set comprises papers published in 2001 or earlier, in any recognized forum (journal, conference, workshop).

To nominate a publication for this award, please send the full reference plus a brief statement (150 words or fewer) about the significance of the paper to Makoto Yokoo (chair of the 2011 committee for this award), yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp. (Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)

Nominations are due by 28th January 2011.

2011 Influential Paper Award Committee:
Joerg Mueller, Lin Padgham, Ana Paiva, Makoto Yokoo (chair)

Previous Award Winners

2010
YOKOO, M. DURFEE, E. H., ISHIDA, T. & KUWABARA, K. (1998)
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 10:673-685. TOGETHER WITH

YOKOO, M. & HIRAYAMA, K. (1996)
Distributed Breakout Algorithm for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-96), pp.401-408.

2009
The award was given to the series of edited collections of papers on Distributed AI published in the late 1980s:
HUHNS. M. H. (Ed.) (1987)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence. London, Pitman.

BOND, A. & GASSER, L. (Eds.) (1988)
Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. San Mateo, CA, Morgan Kaufmann.

GASSER L. & HUHNS, M. H. (Eds.) (1989)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Volume II). Pitman and Morgan Kaufmann.

2008
BRATMAN, M. E., ISRAEL, D. J. & POLLACK, M. E. (1988)
Plans and resource-bounded practical reasoning. Computational Intelligence, 4, 349-355.

DURFEE, E. H. & LESSER, V. R. (1991)
Partial global planning: A coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation. IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21, 1167-1183.

2007
GROSZ, B. J. & KRAUS, S. (1996)
Collaborative plans for complex group action. Artificial Intelligence, 86, 269-357.

RAO, A. S. & GEORGEFF, M. P. (1991)
Modeling rational agents within a BDI-architecture. Second International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

ROSENSCHEIN, J. S. & GENESERETH, M. R. (1985)
Deals among rational agents. Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

2006
COHEN, P. R. & LEVESQUE, H. J. (1990)
Intention is choice with commitment. Artificial Intelligence, 42, 213-261.

DAVIS, R. & SMITH, R. G. (1983)
Negotiation as a metaphor for distributed problem solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20, 63-109.