The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021) on May 3-7, 2021.
The emphasis of this special track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate. It serves as an incubator for innovative, risky, and provocative ideas, and aims to provide a forum for publishing and presenting these without being constrained by the result-oriented standards followed in the review process of the main track of the conference. Research visions and ideas could cross disciplines, envisioning new ideas, and directions relevant for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems research community.
Papers are encouraged to reflect on the future of the research area and its community within the broader AI and computing landscape. Therefore, they invite submissions to focus on: novel, overlooked, or under-represented application areas to which agent research may contribute; potential paths for agent research to contribute to the state of the art in other AI and computing areas and the other way around; unexplored theoretical grounds for agent research.
Important Dates
- Papers submission: December 1, 2020
- Rebuttal period: January 7-10, 2021
- Author notification: January 25, 2021
- Camera-ready submission: February 15, 2021
Submission
Submissions are limited to 4 pages in length in the AAMAS-2021 format, with any additional pages containing only bibliographic references. The formatting instructions are the same as for the AAMAS-2021 main track; see the AAMAS-2021 main track call for papers for details. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be presented orally at the conference.
The Blue Sky Ideas track follows the same policies as the main track. Submissions must be original, reviewing is double-blind, and at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline with the intention of presenting the paper at the conference. See the AAMAS-2021 main track call for papers for details.
Awards
- The best paper will be awarded a $1000 travel grant.
- Each of the two special mentions will be awarded a $500 travel grant.
For more information about this conference, see this website.
For more information about Blue Sky Ideas, see this website.
