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2011 IFAAMAS Award for Influential Papers in Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems
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In 2006 The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems established an award to recognize publications that have
made influential and long-lasting contributions to the field.
Candidates for this award are papers that have proved a key result,
led to the development of a new subfield, demonstrated a significant
new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking
about a topic that has proved influential. A list of previous winners
of this award is appended below.

This award is presented annually at the AAMAS Conference, in this case
AAMAS-2011 in Taipei in May.  Winning papers must have been published
at least 10 years before the award presentation, therefore this year's
eligible set comprises papers published in 2001 or earlier, in any
recognized forum (journal, conference, workshop).

To nominate a publication for this award, please send the full
reference plus a brief statement (150 words or fewer) about the
significance of the paper to Makoto Yokoo (chair of the 2011 committee
for this award), yokoo@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp. (Please put NOMINATION in the
subject line.)

Nominations are due by 28th January 2011.

2011 Influential Paper Award Committee:
Joerg Mueller, Lin Padgham, Ana Paiva, Makoto Yokoo (chair)

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Previous Award Winners

2010
YOKOO, M. DURFEE, E. H., ISHIDA, T. & KUWABARA, K. (1998)
The Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Formalization and
Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
10:673-685.

TOGETHER WITH

YOKOO, M. & HIRAYAMA, K. (1996)
Distributed Breakout Algorithm
for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Second International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-96),
pp.401-408.

2009
The award was given to the series of edited collections of papers on
Distributed AI published in the late 1980s:

HUHNS. M. H. (Ed.) (1987)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence. London, Pitman.

BOND, A. & GASSER, L. (Eds.) (1988)
Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence. San Mateo, CA, Morgan
Kaufmann.

GASSER L. & HUHNS, M. H. (Eds.) (1989)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Volume II). Pitman and Morgan
Kaufmann.

2008
BRATMAN, M. E., ISRAEL, D. J. & POLLACK, M. E. (1988) Plans and
resource-bounded practical reasoning. Computational Intelligence, 4,
349-355.

DURFEE, E. H. & LESSER, V. R. (1991) Partial global planning: A
coordination framework for distributed hypothesis formation. IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 21, 1167-1183.

2007
GROSZ, B. J. & KRAUS, S. (1996) Collaborative plans for complex group
action. Artificial Intelligence, 86, 269-357.

RAO, A. S. & GEORGEFF, M. P. (1991) Modeling rational agents within a
BDI-architecture. Second International Conference on Principles of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

ROSENSCHEIN, J. S. & GENESERETH, M. R. (1985) Deals among rational
agents. Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence.

2006
COHEN, P. R. & LEVESQUE, H. J. (1990) Intention is choice with
commitment. Artificial Intelligence, 42, 213-261.

DAVIS, R. & SMITH, R. G. (1983) Negotiation as a metaphor for
distributed problem solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20, 63-109.