AAMAS Related Work
Use this to audit novelty and eligibility. Reopen the current CFP for dual-submission, anonymity, and prior-publication rules before advising authors; much of the nearest multiagent work lives at other venues, which shapes both positioning and eligibility.
Positioning checks
- Separate the interaction novelty from engineering improvement: a new solution concept, mechanism, learning-dynamics result, coordination protocol, negotiation strategy, or empirical multiagent finding.
- Compare across communities: AAMAS itself, the AI conferences (AAAI, IJCAI), the ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML), and economics-and-computation venues (EC), plus the JAAMAS journal. Many landmark multiagent papers are not at AAMAS, so a bibliography that only cites AAMAS is as suspicious as one that ignores it.
- Treat conference proceedings and journals as archival unless the current rules say otherwise.
- Cite arXiv and workshop versions without breaking double-blind; do not point reviewers to an identity-revealing page.
- Explain overlap with any concurrent or prior version, and do not submit duplicate archival work.
Cross-community coverage table
| Literature lane | Typical sources | What AAMAS reviewers check |
|---|---|---|
| Agents / multiagent core | AAMAS, JAAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI agent tracks | Whether the nearest multiagent method is compared or explicitly distinguished |
| Multiagent RL | NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, prior AAMAS | Whether MADDPG/QMIX/COMA-style cousins are cited even though they are not AAMAS papers |
| Game theory / mechanism design | EC, GEB, algorithmic game-theory venues | Whether the solution concept and known impossibility results are acknowledged |
| Social choice / negotiation | AAMAS, AAAI, COMSOC, ADT | Whether standard axioms and strategyproofness usage are followed |
A bibliography citing only deep-MARL benchmarks tells a game-theory reviewer that known equilibrium or mechanism results may be getting rediscovered - a recognizable AAMAS reject pattern no amount of benchmark strength repairs. The mirror failure - only citing classical game theory while ignoring the deep-MARL wave - loses the empirical reviewer.
Positioning vignette
Imagine the paper proposes a communication protocol that improves cooperation in a mixed-motive game. Its nearest neighbors: a NeurIPS MARL paper with emergent communication but no incentive analysis, an EC paper with a cheap-talk equilibrium but no learning, and a prior AAMAS paper on the same game with a weaker coordination result. The novelty sentence should name all three: incentives where the MARL line had none, learning where the game-theory line stayed static, and stronger coordination than the direct AAMAS predecessor.
Concurrent-work judgment calls
- Independently concurrent arXiv work: cite neutrally, state the technical difference, and avoid priority claims reviewers cannot verify.
- Your own workshop version: usually non-archival and citable, but verify against the current CFP and phrase the citation so double-blind survives.
- When unsure about a venue's archival status, declare the overlap in the submission form rather than gambling on a chair's reading.
Output format
text[Eligibility] clear / needs declaration / risky [Closest literatures] <agents / MARL / game-theory / social-choice> [Nearest 3 works] <work -> distinction> [Archival-overlap risk] <none / issues> [Novelty sentence] <AAMAS-ready interaction contrast>
