Call for Papers:

The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)
December 15-21, 2025
Modena, Italy
https://conferences-website.github.io/prima2025

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 July (AoE, UTC-12)
Paper Submission Deadline: 22 July (AoE, UTC-12)
Paper Notification: 29 September 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)
Camera Ready Submission: 13 October 2025 (AoE, UTC-12)

We invite you to submit your best work on agents and multi-agent systems to PRIMA 2025, the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, to be held in Modena (Italy) in December 2025.

Papers will be submitted through CMT at the link:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRIMA2025/Submission/Index

AWARDS

To recognize outstanding contributions, PRIMA 2025 will have the following awards:

Aditya Ghose Best Paper Award – €1000 prize
Awarded to the best overall paper based on reviewers’ scores and program committee discussions.

Martin Purvis Student Best Paper Award – €500 prize
Awarded to the best paper where the lead author is a student, based on the same evaluation criteria.

SCOPE AND BACKGROUND

Software systems are rapidly becoming more intelligent in the functionality they offer to users. They are also becoming more decentralized, with components that act autonomously and must communicate among themselves or with human users to achieve their goals. Examples of such systems include those in healthcare, disaster management, e-business, and smart grids. A multi-agent perspective is crucial to the proper conceptualization, deployment, and governance of these systems. Rooted in solid computational and software engineering foundations, this perspective offers abstractions such as intelligent agents, protocols, norms, organizations, trust and incentives, among others. As a large, but still growing research field of artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems today remain a unique enabler of interdisciplinary research.

AREAS OF INTEREST

The conference areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Logic and Reasoning
  • Logics of Agency
  • Logics of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Logics of Belief and Knowledge
  • Norms, Obligations, Deontic Logic
  • Argumentation
  • Logics and Game Theory
  • Uncertainty in Agent Systems

• Agent and Multi-Agent Learning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Evolutionary approaches
  • Machine Learning Problems in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Agents Embodied with Large Language Models

• Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
  • Interaction Protocols
  • Formal Specification and Verification
  • Agent Programming Languages
  • Middleware and Platforms
  • Testing, Debugging, and Evolution
  • Deployed System Case Studies

• Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
  • Simulation Languages and Platforms
  • Artificial Societies
  • Virtual Environments
  • Emergent Behavior
  • Modeling System Dynamics
  • Application Case Studies

• Collaboration & Coordination
  • Multi-Agent Planning
  • Distributed Problem Solving and Optimization
  • Teamwork
  • Coalition Formation
  • Negotiation
  • Trust and Reputation
  • Commitments
  • Institutions and Organizations
  • Normative Systems

• Algorithmic Game Theory
  • Auctions and Mechanism Design
  • Bargaining and Negotiation
  • Behavioral Game Theory
  • Cooperative Games: Theory, Analysis, Computation
  • Game Theory for Practical Applications
  • Noncooperative Games: Theory, Analysis, Computation

• Computational Social Choice
  • Voting
  • Fair Division and Resource Allocation
  • Matching under Preferences
  • Coalition Formation Games
  • Aggregation of Beliefs, Opinions, Judgments
  • Ethics and Computational Social Choice
  • Participatory Budgeting
  • Facility Location
  • Communication Issues in Social Choice, Distortion
  • Behavioral Social Choice

• Human-Agent Interaction
  • Adaptive Personal Assistants
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Virtual Characters
  • Multimodal User Interfaces
  • Mobile Agents
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Affective Computing

• Decentralized Paradigms
  • Cloud Computing
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • Data spaces
  • Big data
  • Cybersecurity
  • Robotics and Multirobot Systems
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Social Computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Edge Computing
  • Blockchain

• Ethics and Social Issues
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethics of AI Systems
  • Multi-Agent Systems for Social Good

• Application Domains for Multi-Agent Systems
  • Healthcare, Pandemics Management
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Transport and Logistics
  • Emergency and Disaster Management
  • Energy and Utilities Management
  • Sustainability and Resource Management
  • Games and Entertainment
  • e-Business, e-Government, and e-Learning
  • Smart Cities
  • Financial markets
  • Legal applications
  • Crowdsourcing

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

PRIMA 2025 invites submissions of original, unpublished work strongly relevant to multi-agent systems. Apart from theoretical work, we encourage the submission of reports on the development of applications or prototypes of deployed agent systems, and of experiments that demonstrate novel agent system capabilities. In addition to this, we also encourage the submission of position papers that are of relevance to the multi-agent community.

All submitted papers must be in a form suitable for double-blind review. Specifically, in order to make blind reviewing possible, authors must omit their names and affiliations from the paper. Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous work of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one’s own work, use the third person rather than the first person. For example, say “Previously, Foo and Bar [2] have shown that…”, rather than “In our previous work [2], we have shown that…”. Such identifying information can be added back to the final camera-ready version of accepted papers.

All papers will be reviewed by at least 2-3 experts in the area following a detailed review form that will assess the paper based on the significance and novelty of the idea, the technical description of the proposal, clarity and organization, the evaluation methodology, and any ethical considerations.

All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).

All papers must be submitted using the Springer LNCS/LNAI format.

Type of submissions:

• Full papers, 16 pages plus references
• Short papers, 4 pages plus references
• Position papers, 2 pages plus references

Kind regards,

General Chairs:
Angelo Ferrando, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Vadim Malvone, Télécom Paris (France)

Program Chairs:
Federico Bergenti, University of Parma (Italy)
Catalin Dima, Université Paris-Est Créteil (France)