In 2006 The International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems established an award to recognize publications in the autonomous agents and multiagent systems field that have made influential and long-lasting contributions. 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 proven 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-2015 in Istanbul, 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 April 2005 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 (200 words or fewer) arguing the  significance of the paper to Les Gasser (chair of the 2015 committee for this  award), gasser@illinois.edu
	  (Please put NOMINATION in the subject line.)
	   
	Nominations are due by the 8th of March 2015.
2014 
	  ONN SHEHORY AND SARIT KRAUS (1998). 
	  Methods for task allocation via agent coalition formation.  Artificial
	  Intelligence, vol. 101 (1-2), May 1998, pp. 165-200
2013
	  CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1998)
	  Modelling social action for AI agents. Artificial  Intelligence, Volume
	  103, Issues 1-2, August 1998, Pages 157-182.
CRISTIANO CASTELFRANCHI (1995)
	  Commitment: From individual intentions to groups and  organizations.
	  First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, pages  41-49,
	  1995.
2012 
	  MILIND TAMBE (1997)
	  Towards Flexible Teamwork", Journal of Artificial  Intelligence
	  Research, 7, pp 83-124.
MICHAEL P. WELLMAN (1993)
	  A market-oriented programming environment and its  application to
	  distributed multicommodity flow problems." Journal of  Artificial
	Intelligence Research, 1, pp. 1-23.
2011
	  YOAV SHOHAM (1993)
	Agent-oriented programming, Artificial Intelligence, 60, pp.  51-92.
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.
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.