Call for Nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2026
The award is for research excellence in autonomous agents and for current work that influences the field.
A candidate can only be considered if they are explicitly nominated so if you thinkg that someone deserves the award, nominate them now.
The award comes with a monetary prize and invited talk at #AAMAS2026 in Cyprus!
Deadline: 15th Dec 2026
Nominate: https://forms.gle/RNLZgbbaPQe6TDsb6
#SIGAIAward
#AAMAS
Call for Nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2026
The award is for research excellence in autonomous agents and for current work that influences the field.
A candidate can only be considered if they are explicitly nominated. If you believe that someone deserves the award, nominate them now.
The award comes with a monetary prize and invited talk at #AAMAS2026 in Cyprus!
Deadline: 15th Dec 2026
Nominate: https://forms.gle/RNLZgbbaPQe6TDsb6
#SIGAIAward
New in #AI #ML that is not #chatgpt
I am STOKED about our research on #OpenWorldLearning at #AAMAS 2023.
#OWL is a novel learning paradigm. The three waves of #AI share a common design pattern. Phase 1 - program/train the inference algorithm; Phase 2 - deploy it. If deployment finds some unhandled usecases, go back to the first phase.
#OWL breaks this cycle & builds systems that can #learn like #humans - they learn autonomously AFTER they have been deployed.
Planning agents are ill-equipped to act in novel situations in which their domain model no longer accurately represents the world. We introduce an approach for such agents operating in open worlds that detects the presence of novelties and effectively adapts their domain models and consequent action selection. It uses observations of action execution and measures their divergence from what is expected, according to the environment model, to infer existence of a novelty. Then, it revises the model through a heuristics-guided search over model changes. We report empirical evaluations on the CartPole problem, a standard Reinforcement Learning (RL) benchmark. The results show that our approach can deal with a class of novelties very quickly and in an interpretable fashion.
We invite PhD students working in the general research area served by the International Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of #AAMAS in London, UK, in May/June 2023. The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other students, to receive feedback on your work, and to get advice on managing your career.
https://aamas2023.soton.ac.uk/calls/call-for-contributions-to-the-doctoral-consortium/
Deadline: 25th Jan (must reg. 20th Jan)
- Publish grades, feedback, and video for the 1st report of "Experiment Design" course.
- Attend "First Year Seminar" class, try to put names-to-faces of the students, pick up class picture and put it in a nice place in my office.
- Find the keys of the old lab, and schedule a day to move stuff.
- Prepare invitation/announcement for this year's PhD scholarship.
- Write 2 page #alife poster on campus simulation
- Watch some #AAMAS talks
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