The best paper and demo awards for AAMAS 2025 were awarded during the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, held from May 19 to 23, 2025, in Detroit. Additionally, the Distinguished Dissertation Award was recently revealed. Here are the winners across various categories:
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 honors dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that display originality, depth, impact, and quality of writing, backed 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
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