Call for Nomination
2017 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 in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. 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 proven influential. A list of previous winners of this award appears at http://www.ifaamas.org/award-influential.html.

This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference, in this case AAMAS-2017 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in May. Winning papers must have been published at least 10 years before the award presentation. Therefore, papers eligible for the 2017 award must have been published in April 2007 or earlier, in a recognized forum (journal, conference, workshop).

To nominate a publication for this award, please send the full reference plus a brief statement (200 words or fewer) arguing the significance of the paper to Liz Sonenberg (chair of the 2017 committee for this award), l.sonenberg@unimelb.edu.au (Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)

Nominations are due by the 8th of March 2017.

PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS

2016
MUNINDAR P. SINGH (1998)
Agent Communication Languages: Rethinking the Principles IEEE Computer.
Volume 31, No. 12, December 1998, pages 40-47.

2015
MICHAEL L. LITTMAN (1994)
Markov games as a framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning.
Eleventh International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-94), pp. 157-163, 1994.

2014
ONN SHEHORY AND SARIT KRAUS (1998)
Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 101 (1-2), May 1998, pp. 165-200

2013
CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1998)
Modelling social action for AI agents. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 103, Issues 1-2, August 1998, Pages 157-182.

CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1995)
Commitment: From individual intentions to groups and organizations. First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pages 41-49, 1995.

2012
MILIND TAMBE (1997)
Towards Flexible Teamwork", Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 7, pp 83-124.

MICHAEL P. WELLMAN (1993)
A market-oriented programming environment and its application to distributed multicommodity flow problems." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 1, pp. 1-23.

2011
YOAV SHOHAM (1993)
Agent-oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, 60, pp. 51-92.

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.

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.