18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2026
Interactive Creativity: Agencies, Interfaces, and Ethics
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8-12 June 2026
Venice, Italy
http://unive.it/avi2026
In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB
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IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop proposals submission: December 14, 2025
- Notification: December 21, 2025
- Workshop website online: January 12, 2026
(all deadlines are 23:59, AoE)
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WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to Advanced Visual Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held between June 8 and 12, 2026, at the AVI2026 venue.
Workshop proposals must be submitted using the following form:
https://forms.gle/v7gEKFchxAGzMJtj8
Workshop Chairs
- Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
- Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
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DESCRIPTION
Since its first edition in 1992, AVI has become an influential space for encounters among scholars and practitioners interested in interfaces, interactions, and experiences. Rooted in pioneering research on visual interfaces characterized by a distinctive attention to the human factor, the conference has evolved across the different waves of Human-Computer Interaction. It has addressed the pragmatic and hedonic needs of heterogeneous groups of users up to the current challenge of self-actualization. Creativity is a core behavior that leads to the realization of a person’s full potential, and the explosion of generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges to human creativity. They address fundamental issues related to agencies, interfaces, and ethics.
AVI 2026 will take place in San Servolo, a small island in Venice. This delicate and fragile ecosystem provides the ideal venue for reflecting, reframing, and speculating about creative solutions to more sustainable, inclusive and rewarding technological futures. AVI is an International Conference considering the nationality of participants, authors, and organizing committees. However, it has always taken place in Italy, thus complementing a strong and diverse research program with carefully selected cultural and social activities alongside a distinct sense of hospitality and conviviality.
The conference is held under the patronage of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
We look forward to your participation in AVI 2026!
Antonella De Angeli, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Albrecht Schmidt, AVI 2026 General Co-Chair
Rosella Gennari, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
Fabio Pittarello, AVI 2026 Program Co-Chair
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MAIN THEMES AND TOPICS
Themes and topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
/ Theme: Interaction Paradigms and Modalities /
Brain-Computer Interaction
Embodied and Tangible Interaction
Material-Centric Interaction
Information Visualization
Screen-based Interaction
Interfaces for Sound and Music
Multi-sensory Interaction
Multimodal Interaction
/ Theme: Interaction Spaces /
Augmented Reality
Cross Reality
Virtual Reality
Interaction between Black-Boxes
Dynamic Physical Environments
Natural Environments
Urban Places
/ Theme: Human-System Interaction /
Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces
Affective Interfaces
Human-Robot Interaction
Intelligent Interfaces
Interfaces and Recommender Systems
/ Theme: Ecosystems of People, Groups and Societies /
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Learning Ecosystems
Game and Play Ecosystems
Social Interaction and Cooperation Systems
/ Theme: Values and Moral Principles /
Beyond Human Interaction
Critical Computing
Critical Data Science
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Responsible Design
/ Theme: Applications /
Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities
End User Development
AI and Creativity
Human Factors in Security Systems
Health, Well-being, and Self-Actualization
Training and Learning Systems
Industry 5.0
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AVI 2026 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chairs
Antonella De Angeli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (antonella.deangeli(a)unibz.it)
Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany (albrecht.schmidt(a)um.ifi.lmu.de)
Program Chairs
Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari(a)inf.unibz.it)
Fabio Pittarello, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (pitt(a)unive.it)
Long Papers Chairs
Paloma Diaz, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain (pdp(a)inf.uc3m.es)
Alessandra Melonio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (alessandra.melonio(a)unive.it)
Short Papers Chairs
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (luigi.derussis(a)polito.it)
María Menéndez Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Maria.MenendezBlanco(a)unibz.it)
Proceedings Chairs
Niccolò Pretto, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (niccolo.pretto(a)unibz.it)
Nadine Wagener, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany (nadine.wagener(a)offis.de)
Workshops Chairs
Daniela Fogli, Università di Brescia, Italy (daniela.fogli(a)unibs.it)
Kyle Montague, Northumbria University, UK (kyle.montague(a)northumbria.ac.uk)
Interactive Experiences and Demos Chairs
Stefania De Vincentis, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (stefania.devincentis(a)unive.it)
Florian Michahelles, TU Wien, Austria (florian.michahelles(a)tuwien.ac.at)
Sebastiano Vascon, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (sebastiano.vascon(a)unive.it)
Posters Chairs
Alba Bisante, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (bisante(a)di.uniroma1.it)
Tanja Doering, TU Berlin, Germany (tanja.doering(a)mms.tu-berlin.de)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy (rosa.lanzilotti(a)uniba.it)
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (divitini(a)ntnu.no)
Industry Chairs
Fabio Morreale, Sony, Spain (Fabio.Morreale(a)sony.com)
Emanuele Pucci, Politecnico di Milano (emanuele.pucci(a)polimi.it)
Accessibility and Inclusion Chairs
Marco Mores, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (marco.mores(a)student.unibz.it)
Teresa Scantamburlo, University of Trieste, Italy (teresa.scantamburlo(a)units.it)
Web Chair
Tommaso Pellegrini, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Italy (tommaso.pellegrini(a)unive.it)
Publicity & Social Networks Chairs
Andrea Rezzani, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (andrea.rezzani(a)student.unibz.it)
Mehdi Rizvi, University of East Anglia, UK (mehdi.rizvi(a)uea.ac.uk)
Student Volunteers Chairs
Daniel Bermudez, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (JulioDaniel.BermudezChinea(a)student.unibz.it)
Bilal Khan, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(MuhammadBilal.Khan(a)student.unibz.it)
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AVI STEERING COMMITTEE
Paolo Bottoni,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Cristina Conati
University of British Columbia, Canada
Emanuele Panizzi,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ilaria Torre
University of Genoa, Italy
Genny Tortora
University of Salerno, Italy
Giuliana Vitiello
University of Salerno, Italy
Gualtiero Volpe
University of Genoa, Italy
Marco Winckler
Université Côte d'Azur, France
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Dear all.
The following new JCDL workshop might be of interest to you:
**1st Smarter Extraction of ScholArly MEtadata using Knowledge Graphs
and Language Models (SESAME) Workshop**
- during JCDL 2025 (Virtual Event)
- to be held on 15-19, December 2025
> SESAME brings together researchers and practitioners to explore how
AI-driven curation approaches leveraging large language models and
knowledge graphs to strengthen digital libraries infrastructures.
https://sesame-workshop.github.io/SESAME/
Deadline for submissions is **Friday, November 7th, AoE**
Topics of interest include:
- Research Artifacts Metadata Modeling and Granularity
- Large Language Models (LLMs) and NLP for Metadata
- Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data
- Digital Libraries and Infrastructure
- Societal, Ethical Impact and Future Policy Directions
Please consider submitting. The event is fully online, so the barrier to
entry is low. The organizers are also explicitly inviting applied papers.
*** Last Call for the AAAI Track ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial
submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around
50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS.
AAMAS 2026 invites submissions to its AAAI track. We are looking for AAAI-26
submissions rejected from the main AAAI track that are relevant to the AAMAS research
community and received no reject review recommendations (all review scores are weak
reject or above). Authors are expected to update their manuscripts to address the
comments of the AAAI reviewers and reformat them using the AAMAS style. All submitted
material will be checked for correctness with AAAI and reviewed by members of the AAMAS
program committee. We expect to accept only a fraction of the submitted manuscripts and
will provide only short meta-reviews to explain the accept/reject decisions.
The AAMAS submission must be based on a rejected AAAI-26 submission
• that was submitted to the main AAAI track; and
• that did not receive any reject review (all review scores are 5 or above); and
• that is relevant to the AAMAS research community.
The submission guidelines for the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track, available here:
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> ,
apply to the AAAI track with the exceptions given below:
Authors must submit in one PDF document:
• their original AAAI submission;
• all AAAI review scores and reviews (including the meta-review);
• the AAMAS submission (that is, the updated AAAI submission), in the format required for
the AAMAS 2026 Main Technical Track and with the same restrictions;
• in addition, all changes made should be highlighted in color (for example, red text or
text highlighted in yellow);
• at most a two-page long document that describes how the AAMAS submission addresses
the comments of the AAAI reviewers; and
• a short statement of why the submission is relevant for the AAMAS research community,
together with one of the areas of interest listed on the Call for Papers (Main Technical
Track, see the conference website) that describes the AAMAS submission.
The publication of the 2-page extended abstracts is not an option for this track.
For questions, please contact the AAAI Track Chair Bo An, Nanyang Technological
University, at boan AT ntu.edu.sg.
Submission Link:
https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=aamas2026aaaitrack<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission Deadline: November 17, 2025
• Decision Notification: February 15, 2026
• Camera-ready Submission: February 21, 2026
Organizing Committee
AAMAS 2026 General Chairs
• Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
• John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs
• Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America
• Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)
• Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)
First Call for Papers
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NooJ 2026 International Conference
Naples, Italy
June 24-26, 2026
https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/2
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Important dates:
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Abstract submission: 31 January 2026
Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2026
Registration: until 13 April 2026
Conference dates: 24-26 June 2026
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University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the NooJ association organize the 20th NooJ Conference in Naples, Italy from 24-26 June, 2026.
NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena: orthography and spelling; lexicons of simple words, multiword units and frozen expressions; inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology; local, constituent and dependency syntax; transformational grammars and semantic analysis. For each phenomenon, NooJ provides linguists with formal tools specifically adapted to facilitate the description, using the four types of Chomsky-Schützenberger formal grammars (regular, context-free, context-sensitive and unrestricted). This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic frameworks which provide a single formalism.
NooJ is also a corpus processing tool, used in the digital humanities (in History, Literature, Psychology and Sociolinguistics) as it allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic resources to large corpora and build indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform various statistical analyses, etc.
NooJ is freely available and linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded for over 30 languages, see https://nooj.univ-fcomte.fr
A Web demo is available for English, French, Spanish and Ukrainian at: https://webnooj.univ-fcomte.fr
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The conference intends to:
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* give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and in the Digital Humanities the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers;
* present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments;
* offer researchers and graduate students an advanced tutorial dedicated to the automatic transformational analysis/generation of texts.
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Topics of interest:
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* Lexical resources
* Computational morphology
* Syntactic analysis
* Semantic analysis
* Linguistic-based NLP applications
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Submission:
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We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 31 January 2026. The abstracts should contain the title, name and email of the author(s) and their institutions. Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be sent to nooj2026(a)gmail.com. All proposals will be reviewed by the members of the scientific committee; authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 25 March 2026.
Further information about the conference can be found at https://nooj2026.sciencescall.org/resource/page/id/5. You can also contact the organizing committee at nooj2026(a)gmail.com for any additional information.
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Scientific Committee:
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Marco Angster, University of Zadar, Croatia
Anabela Barreiro, INESC-ID, Portugal
Anita Bartulović, University of Zadar, Croatia
Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Xavier Blanco, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Maria Pia Di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy
Héla Fehri, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Zoe Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Yuras Hetsevich, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus
Agata Jackievicz, Université Paul Valéry, France
Agnieszka Kaliska, Poznan University, Poland
Kristina Kocijan, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Walter Koza, National, University of General Sarmiento, Argentina
Svetlana Krylosova, INALCO, France
Mathieu Lafourcade Université de Montpellier, France
Laetitia Leonarduzzi, Université d’Aix-Marseille, France
Stefania Maci, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Samir Mbarki, IbnTofail University, Morocco
Linda Mijić, University of Zadar, Croatia
Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale, Italy
Kamal Naït-Zerrad, INALCO, France
Olena Saint-Joanis, INALCO, France
Thierry Poibeau, Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France
Andrea Rodrigo, University of Rosario, Argentina
Max Silberztein, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
François Trouilleux, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
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Organizing Committee:
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* Johanna Monti, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy
* Maria Pia di Buono, Università di Napoli L'Orientale, Italy
* Max Silberztein, Université de Franche-Comté, France
The University of Birmingham Dubai is inviting applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Education Focused) in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing within our School of Computer Science.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a World Top 100 University, contributing to innovative teaching and academic leadership at our state-of-the-art campus in Dubai International Academic City.
We’re looking for a highly motivated academic with:
A PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, AI, ML, or NLP
A strong track record in teaching and curriculum development
A commitment to academic excellence, inclusivity, and student success
Location: Dubai, UAE
Start date: June 2026
Closing date: 4th December 2025
Contract: 3 years (renewable)
Salary: Competitive
At the University of Birmingham, we are proud of our collaborative, inclusive, and ambitious environment—one that empowers both staff and students to make an impact globally.
Learn more and apply here:
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With best regards,
Mark
Mark Lee
Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (India)
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl>
University of Birmingham
Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce SemEval-2026 Task 3: Dimensional Aspect-Based
Sentiment Analysis on Customer Reviews and Stance Datasets.
*Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a widely used technique for
analyzing people’s opinions and sentiments at the aspect level. However,
current ABSA research predominantly adopts a coarse-grained, categorical
sentiment representation (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). This
approach stands in contrast to long-established theories in psychology and
affective science, where sentiment is represented along fine-grained,
real-valued dimensions of valence (ranging from negative to positive) and
arousal (from sluggish to excited). This valence-arousal (VA)
representation has inspired the rise of dimensional sentiment analysis as
an emerging research paradigm, enabling more nuanced distinctions in
emotional expression and supporting a broader range of applications.
To bridge this gap, we propose *Dimensional ABSA (DimABSA)*, a shared task
that integrates dimensional sentiment analysis into the traditional ABSA
framework. Furthermore, there is a conceptual similarity between stance
detection and ABSA when the stance target is treated as an aspect. Building
on this, we introduce *Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*, a
Stance-as-DimABSA task that reformulates stance detection under the ABSA
schema in the VA space. This new formulation extends ABSA beyond consumer
reviews to public-issue discourse (e.g., social, political, energy,
climate) and also generalizes stance analysis from categorical labels to
continuous VA scores.
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*Languages*
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*We provide data in 11 languages*, including: German (deu), English (eng),
Hausa (hau), Japan (jpn), Kinyarwanda (kin), Russian (rus), Swahili (swa),
Tatar (tat), Twi(twi), Ukrainian (ukr), and Chinese (zho)
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*Subtasks*
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*Track A – Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (DimABSA)*: Predict
real-valued valence–arousal (VA) scores for aspects and extract their
associated information from text. Its subtasks include:
- *Subtask 1: DimASR* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Regression
- *Subtask 2: DimASTE *– Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction
- *Subtask 3: DimASQP* – Dimensional Aspect Sentiment Quad Prediction
*Track B – Dimensional Stance Analysis (DimStance)*: A Stance-as-DimABSA
task, where the target in stance detection is treated as an aspect. Its
subtasks include:
- *Subtask 1: DimASR for stance analysis*
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*Evaluation*
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For both tracks, RMSE is used for Subtask 1, and *a new metric (continuous
F1)* for Subtasks 2 & 3.
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*Participation*
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*Website* (checkout details):
https://github.com/DimABSA/DimABSA2026
*Codabench* (register and submit results)
- Track A: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/10918/
- Track B: To be announced soon.
*Discord* (community and discussion)
https://discord.gg/xWXDWtkMzu
*Google Group* (official updates):
https://groups.google.com/g/dimabsa-participants
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*Important Dates*
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- Sample Data Ready: 15 July 2025
- Training Data Ready: 30 September 2025
- *Evaluation Start: 10 January 2026*
- Evaluation End 31 January 2026
- System Description Paper Due: February 2026
- Notification to Authors: March 2026
- Camera Ready Due: April 2026
- SemEval Workshop 2026: co-located with ACL 2026 (San Diego, CA, USA)
We warmly invite the community to participate in this exciting shared task
and contribute to advancing NLP research.
Best regards,
SemEval-2026 Task 3 Organizers
The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (MS Teams) on Thursday 13 November 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm (GMT<https://time.is/United_Kingdom>).
Topic: LLMs and Corpus Tools
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Title: Integrating information from AI / LLMs into English-Corpora.org
Details and registration: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next
Attendance is free. Registration closes on Tuesday 11 November.
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please send an email to the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>).
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Dear colleagues,
Draft programme of the eLex 2025 conference is now available at https://elex.link/elex2025/programme/. In addition to a number of presentations, posters, and demos, there are also two workshops taking place before and after the conference, respectively.
For those interested in attending the conference (onsite or online), you can still register at https://elex.link/elex2025/programme/.
Kind regards
Iztok Kosem
In the name of the eLex 2025 organising committee
*** Last Call for Workshop and Competition Proposals ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial
submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around
50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS.
Workshops
AAMAS 2026 invites proposals for the workshop program, which will be held on May
25-26, 2026, immediately before the main program of the AAMAS conference.
The objectives of the AAMAS 2026 workshop program are to stimulate and facilitate
discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to
specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS 2026 workshops will provide an informal setting
where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics, fostering
the active exchange of ideas and supporting community development.
We invite the submission of workshop proposals for review. We encourage workshops
proposals that focus on emerging topics, open research questions and challenges, as well
as broader subjects of interest to a wider community. Additionally, we welcome workshops
with previous editions at AAMAS that can attract established communities working in the
same research area.
Workshops may vary in length from half a day to two days, though most are expected to
last one full day. Attendance will be limited to registered participants, and both organizers
and attendees must register for their workshop, which will have a separate fee from the
main conference. Workshop attendees are not required to register for the main AAMAS
conference if they do not plan to attend it, though this is highly encouraged.
AAMAS 2026 will be an in-person event in Paphos, Cyprus. AAMAS 2026 reserves the right
to cancel workshops if the registration numbers do not cover their operating costs.
Competitions
We are glad to announce the third edition of the AAMAS Competition track at AAMAS
2026.
Competitions are an effective mechanism for motivating researchers to enhance
discussions, share knowledge, and boost the development and evaluation of theory and
practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. By proposing challenging
competitions to the AAMAS community, competition proposers contribute to pushing the
state-of-the-art in specific areas or to solving problems of practical importance.
We invite competition proposals on topics of interest to the AAMAS community. We
encourage submissions from emerging areas or novel application scenarios relevant to the
AAMAS community. Submissions from established areas for which the competition may
serve as a stimulus to advance theory and practice or renew the interest of young
researchers in the area are also welcome. We highly value interdisciplinary topics that have
the potential to attract a significant cross-section of the community.
If the accepted competition involves the development of tools and platforms for
supporting agent development, the proposer(s) will be encouraged to submit a
Demonstration paper at AAMAS 2027 summarizing the design, development, and
outcomes of their competition at the 2026 conference.
At least one proposer of each accepted competition is required to register and attend the
conference to run the finals of the competition and/or to announce the winners.
Important Dates (AoE)
Workshop Proposals
• Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025
• Notification: December 3, 2025
• Workshops Announcement: December 10, 2025
• Deadline to Post CFP & Website: December 17, 2025
• Recommended Paper Deadline: February 4, 2026
• Recommended Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026
• Workshops: May 25-26, 2026
Competition Proposals
• Submission Deadline: November 10, 2025
• Notification: December 3, 2025
• Competitions: May 25-26, 2026
Organizing Committee
AAMAS 2026 General Chairs
• Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
• John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs
• Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America
• Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)
• Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)