[DMANET] AAMAS 2027 AAAI Fast Track CfP + Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

Call for AAAI Fast Track *The 26th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems------------------------------AAMAS 2027 invites submissions to its AAAI Track. This track considers papers that were submitted to the AAAI-27 Main Technical Track, were not accepted, and are relevant to the AAMAS research community.To be eligible, a submission must not have received a reject recommendation from any AAAI reviewer; all review scores must be weak reject or above. Authors are expected to revise their manuscripts to address the AAAI reviewers’ comments and to reformat the paper according to the AAMAS submission requirements.All submitted materials will be checked for accuracy against the corresponding AAAI submission and reviewed by members of the AAMAS Program Committee. We expect to accept only a fraction of the submitted papers. Decisions will be accompanied by a short meta-review explaining the basis for acceptance or rejection.Important Dates - (AAAI notifications: November 30, 2026)- Submission Deadline: Friday, December 11, 2026- Decision Notification: February 1, 2027- Camera-Ready Deadline: February 11, 2027- Author Registration Deadline: March 31, 2027All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).Full call on the AAMAS website:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/aamas2027/calls/call-for-aaai-fast-track/ <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/aamas2027/calls/call-for-aaai-fast-track/>Submission RequirementsAn AAMAS AAAI Track submission must be based on a paper that: 1. was submitted to the AAAI-27 Main Technical Track;2. received no reject recommendation from any reviewer and received only review scores of weak reject or above; and3. is relevant to the AAMAS research community.Authors must submit a single PDF document through the following portal:The PDF must include the following materials, in this order: 1. The original AAAI-27 submission.2. All AAAI review scores and reviews, including the meta-review.3. The revised paper submitted to AAMAS, formatted according to the AAMAS 2027 Main Technical Track submission requirements <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/aamas2027/calls/instructions/>; all changes from the original AAAI submission should be clearly highlighted, for example using colored text or yellow highlighting.4. A response of at most two pages explaining how the revised submission addresses the AAAI reviewers’ comments.5. A short statement explaining why the paper is relevant to the AAMAS research community and identifying the most appropriate area of interest from the AAMAS 2027 Main Technical Track Call for Papers.QuestionsFor questions about the AAAI Track, please contact the Track Chairs:Pradeep Varakantham at pradeepv@smu.edu.sg <pradeepv@smu.edu.sg> orRym Z. Wenkstern at rymw@utdallas.edu <rymw@utdallas.edu>Please add “AAMAS AAAI Track: [nature of inquiry]” to your email’s subject line.=============================================================================*Call for Nominations: 2026 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award The 26th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ------------------------------ IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, is pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award is named after Professor Victor Lesser, a long-standing member of the AAMAS community who has supervised a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. It is awarded for dissertations written as part of a PhD, defended in the specified period, and nominated by the supervisor (with supporting references), which show originality, significance, and impact, and are supported by high quality publications. Nominations are invited for the award which is sponsored by IFAAMAS and will be presented at AAMAS 2027. The award includes a certificate and a 1500 EUR payment. Submission link: https://forms.gle/wmvsqAbZeXYc3QMy8 Full call: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/aamas2027/calls/call-victor-lesser/ Eligibility: Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026 (both endpoints included) in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems. Submission deadline: November 6, 2026 (anywhere on earth) Selection procedure: The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field, with due importance given to the AAMAS conference series and JAAMAS. Research output that resulted primarily from the student’s initiative will be considered more favorably. The selection committee will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The selection committee might also decide to consult external assessors, and reserves the right to not award the prize if the nominations do not meet the expected quality level. Every submitted dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor and must be supported by the following 4 (four) documents, all of which should be delivered via the Google Form link above by November 6, 2026: 1. A link to a PDF file of the dissertation. If the dissertation is not written in English, the nomination must include an accessible link to a substantial manuscript in English, with the nominee as the first author, published in a peer-reviewed journal or conference. 2. A PDF that contains a list of publications that have arisen from the dissertation, with links to the published papers. 3. A PDF with the recommendation from the dissertation supervisor, on departmental letterhead, nominating the dissertation for the 2026 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. The recommendation should explain the contribution of the dissertation to the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, argue the merit and possible future impact of the work, and highlight, where relevant, how the work resulted from the initiative of the student. Finally, this document should certify the eligibility of the PhD by asserting that the PhD was successfully defended between October 1, 2025 and September 30, 2026. 4. A PDF with the names, email addresses, and affiliations of at least one and at most three referees, familiar with the research of the candidate and experts in the pertinent research area, who will directly email their recommendations for the candidate to the chair of the selection committee (Fernando Santos, f.p.santos@uva.nl). A reference letter should be no more than 500 words in length, should be on an official letterhead, signed and emailed as a PDF file, and received by the same deadline of November 6, 2026. To ease the recovery of these emails, it is recommended that the subject of the recommendation letter email be “2026 Victor Lesser Award: Recommendation: <name of the candidate>” Note: It is the responsibility of the dissertation supervisor to contact the referees and ensure that their letters (max 500 words, signed, and on letterhead) are submitted by the deadline. Though the nomination is to be submitted by the nominee’s dissertation supervisor, it is required that the nominee has consented that the dissertation be considered for this award and, if selected for the award, commits to attending the AAMAS 2027 conference, where they will receive the award and will give a presentation on the work contained in the dissertation at a special session of the conference. The cost of attending the conference is not covered by the award. For questions, please contact the chair of the selection committee, Fernando P. Santos, at f.p.santos@uva.nl. ================================================================================ ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The * original sender, however, is invited to prepare an * update of the replies received and to communicate it * via DMANET. * * DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET) * http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/ * **********************************************************