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Awards
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGART from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. Candidates for the award are nominated through an open nomination process. Previous winners of the SIGART Autonomous Research Award were Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (2013), Moshe Tennenholtz (2012), Joe Halpern (2011), Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella (2010), Manuela Veloso (2009), Yoav Shoham (2008), Sarit Kraus (2007), Michael Wooldridge (2006), Milind Tambe (2005), Makoto Yokoo (2004), Nick Jennings (2003), Katia Sycara (2002), and Tuomas Sandholm (2001). The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Michael Wellman of the University of Michigan is the recipient of the 2014 award. Prof. Wellman has had a profound and broad impact across an array of research challenges in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Prof. Wellman's contributions range from his pioneering work that helped introduce economic paradigms in multiagent systems, to significant contributions to computational game theory and electronic commerce, including mechanism design and market-based systems. Additionally, Prof. Wellman played an instrumental role in launching the annual Trading Agent Competition (TAC), one of the oldest and most well-known research competitions in multi-agent systems. |
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| (Return to Top) | IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award This award was started for dissertations defended in 2006 and is named for Professor Victor Lesser, a long standing member of the AAMAS community who has graduated a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. To be eligible for the 2013 award, a dissertation had to have been written as part of a PhD defended during the year 2013, and had to be nominated by the supervisor with three supporting references. Selection is based on originality, depth, impact and written quality, supported by quality publications. Previous winners of this award were Birgit Endrass (2012), Daniel Villatoro (2011), Bo An (2010), Andrew Gilpin (2009), Ariel Procaccia (2008), Radu Jurca (2007), and Vincent Conitzer (2006). The 2013 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient is Dr. Manish Jain, whose thesis titled "Thwarting Adversaries with Unpredictability: Massive-scale Game-Theoretic Algorithms for Real-World Security Deployments" was supervised by Prof. Milind Tambe. The committee also wanted to recognize two other nominees: Dr. Iolanda Leite, whose thesis titled "Long-term Interactions with Emphatic Social Robots" was supervised by A/Profs Carlos Martinhos and Ana Paiva; and Dr. Reshef Meir, whose thesis titled "Mechanisms for Stability and Welfare: Increasing Cooperation among Self-interested Agents" was supervised by Prof. Jeffrey S. Rosenchein. |
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| IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems set up an influential paper award in 2006 to recognize publications that have made seminal contributions to the field. Such papers represent the best and most influential work in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. These papers might, therefore, have proved a key result, led to the development of a new sub-field, demonstrated a significant new application or system, or simply presented a new way of thinking about a topic that has proved influential. The award is open to any paper that was published at least 10 years before the award is made. The paper can have been published in any journal, conference, or workshop. The award is sponsored by the Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages foundation. Onn Shehory and Sarit Kraus are the winners of the 2013 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award, in recognition of their distinguished contributions to the field as exemplified by the following influential paper:
Runner ups for the award are:
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Kiosk: A Virtual Human Interviewer for Healthcare Decision Support (Page
1061) Characterizing
Conflicts in Fair Division of Indivisible Goods using a Scale of Criteria (Page
1321) Exploiting
Separability in Multiagent Planning with Continuous-State MDPs (Page
1281) |
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| (Return to Top) | Jay Modi Best Student Paper Nominees Clustering
Objects with Robots That Do Not Compute (Page
421) Constraining
Information Sharing to Improve Cooperative Information Gathering (Page
237) Evaluating
Coverage Based Intention Selection (Page
957) |
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| (Return to Top) | Blue Sky Ideas Best Paper Nominees Computational
Epidemiology as a Challenge Domain for Multiagent Systems (Page
1173) Multiagent
Systems for Social Computation (Page
1165) From
Autistic to Social Agents (Page
1161) |
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