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Congratulations to the #AAMAS2025 best paper, best demo, and distinguished dissertation award winners


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29 May 2025



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The AAMAS 2025 best paper and demo awards were presented at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 19-23 May 2025 in Detroit. The Distinguished Dissertation Award was also recently announced. The winners in the various categories are as follows:


Best Paper Award

Winner

  • Soft Condorcet Optimization for Ranking of General Agents, Marc Lanctot, Kate Larson, Michael Kaisers, Quentin Berthet, Ian Gemp, Manfred Diaz, Roberto-Rafael Maura-Rivero, Yoram Bachrach, Anna Koop, Doina Precup

Finalists

  • Azorus: Commitments over Protocols for BDI Agents, Amit K. Chopra, Matteo Baldoni, Samuel H. Christie V, Munindar P. Singh
  • Curiosity-Driven Partner Selection Accelerates Convention Emergence in Language Games, Chin-Wing Leung, Paolo Turrini, Ann Nowe
  • Reinforcement Learning-based Approach for Vehicle-to-Building Charging with Heterogeneous Agents and Long Term Rewards, Fangqi Liu, Rishav Sen, Jose Paolo Talusan, Ava Pettet, Aaron Kandel, Yoshinori Suzue, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey
  • Ready, Bid, Go! On-Demand Delivery Using Fleets of Drones with Unknown, Heterogeneous Energy Storage Constraints, Mohamed S. Talamali, Genki Miyauchi, Thomas Watteyne, Micael Santos Couceiro, Roderich Gross

Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award

Winners

  • Decentralized Planning Using Probabilistic Hyperproperties, Francesco Pontiggia, Filip Macák, Roman Andriushchenko, Michele Chiari, Milan Ceska
  • Large Language Models for Virtual Human Gesture Selection, Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Laura B. Hensel, Ari Shapiro, Stacy Marsella

Runner-up

  • ReSCOM: Reward-Shaped Curriculum for Efficient Multi-Agent Communication Learning, Xinghai Wei, Tingting Yuan, Jie Yuan, Dongxiao Liu, Xiaoming Fu

Finalists

  • Explaining Facial Expression Recognition, Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Leimin Tian, Dana Kulic, Mor Vered
  • Agent-Based Analysis of Green Disclosure Policies and Their Market-Wide Impact on Firm Behavior, Lingxiao Zhao, Maria Polukarov, Carmine Ventre

Blue Sky Ideas Track Best Paper Award

Winner

  • Grounding Agent Reasoning in Image Schemas: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Embodied Cognition, François Olivier, Zied Bouraoui

Finalist

  • Towards Foundation-model-based multiagent system to Accelerate AI for social impact, Yunfan Zhao, Niclas Boehmer, Aparna Taneja, Milind Tambe

Best Demo Award

Winner

  • Serious Games for Ethical Preference Elicitation, Jayati Deshmukh, Zijie Liang, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein, Sarvapali Ramchurn

Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

The Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is given for dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that show originality, depth, impact, as well as quality of writing, supported by high-quality publications.

Winner

  • Jannik Peters. Thesis title: Facets of Proportionality: Selecting Committees, Budgets, and Clusters

Runner-up

  • Lily Xu. Thesis title: High-stakes decisions from low-quality data: AI decision-making for planetary health



Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.
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