The AAMAS 2025 Best Paper and Demo Awards were presented at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiGent Systems, which was held in Detroit during May 19-23, 2025. Recently the prestigious essay award was also announced. The winners in different categories are as follows:
Award of the best paper
Winner
- Soft condensate optim ptimization for ranking of ordinary agents, Mark Lanktot, Kate Larson, Michael Kaisers, Quentin Berthate, Ian Jump, Manfred Diaz, Roberto-Rafell Maura-Revo, Yorum Bachcarch, Anna Cop, Donno Prickup
Finalist
- Azorres: commitments to the protocol for BDI agents, Amit or Chopra, Matty Baldoni, Samuel H. Christie V, Muninder P. Lioness
- Jej ITY Based Partner’s choice accelerates the emergence of convention in language games, Chin-Wing Lang, Paolo Turini, Ann now
- A reinforcement education-based approach to vehicle-to-building charging with heterogeneous agents and long-term rewards, Fungaki Liu, Is Shaniv Sen, Jose Paolo Taluson, Ava Patate, Aaron Kandel, Yoshinori Suzu, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Abhishek Dubey
- Ready, speak, go! On-demand delivery using a fleet of drones with racial energy storage barriers, inherited by unknown, Mohammed S. Talamali, Ganky Miyuchi, Thomas Watten, Michal Santos Kusiro, Roadrich Gross
Pragnesh Jai Modi Best Student Paper Award
Winner
- Decentralized planning using potential hyperprorties, Francesco Pontigia, Philip Md.
- Large language models for the choice of virtual human gestures, Parisa Ghanad Torshizi, Laura b. Hensel, Ary Shapiro, Stacey Marsella
Runner up
- RESCOM: a prize-shaped course for efficient multi-agent communication learning, Zingai V, Tinging Yuan, G Yuan, Dongxiao Liu, Zioming Fu
Finalist
- Explaining the identity of facial expression, Sanjeev Nahulanthran, Lamin Tion, Dana Kulik, More Wared
- Agent-based analysis of green advertising policies and their market-wide effect on pay firm behavior, Lingxia Zao, Maria Pollukarov, Carmine Ventre
Blue Sky Ideas Best Paper Award Tracks
Winner
- Grounding agent logic in image schema: Neurosimbolic approach to tangible wit, Francois Olivier, Zed Bouraui
Funeral
- To the Foundation-Model-Based MultiGent System to accelerate AI for social impact, Yunfan Zhao, Nicklas Bohmer, Aparna Taneja, Milind Tambbe
Best Demo Award
Winner
- Serious games for moral choice, Jayati Deshukh, Ziji Liang, Vahd Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein, Sarvapali Remacurn
Victor Leisure Distress Award
Victor Laser Distribution Essay Award is given for essays in the field of autonomous agents and multi-functioning systems that show originality, Depth, and quality of writing, supported by high-quality publications.
Winner
- Genuine. Threatis Title: Aspects of certification: Selection of committees, budgets and clusters
Runner up
- Green zoo. Threatis Title: High-innings decisions from low quality data: AI for planetary health
Lucy Smith is a senior managing editor for AIHUB.
