AAMAS Workflow

Use this as the project-management skill for an AAMAS submission. Replace every date with the current official timetable and work backward from the OpenReview cutoffs.

AAMAS is a conference owned by IFAAMAS, not a journal: it has no editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. Each edition is run by rotating General and Program Chairs, the cost model is registration, and accepted papers are published open-access by IFAAMAS. Re-check the current CFP and organization page rather than carrying names or dates forward - as of 2026-07-09 the live target is AAMAS 2027, whose full timetable was not yet confirmable.

Milestones

• Venue fit: confirm the contribution is genuinely about interacting agents and choose the track

(main full paper, extended abstract, AAAI, JAAMAS, Blue Sky, Demo, Competitions).

• Evidence lock: freeze the game, agent objectives, theorems, opponent sets, experiments, and

supplement contents.

• Abstract deadline: submit the short plain-text abstract, authors, and keywords (main track's

abstract is due before the paper).

• Paper deadline: upload the double-blind PDF and OpenReview fields.
• Supplement deadline: upload the anonymized zip within the size cap.
• Rebuttal window: respond to preliminary reviews with anonymous, evidence-anchored text; no new

results.

• Decision: archive reviews, rebuttal, and the submitted version (all become public).
• Acceptance: prepare the IFAAMAS camera-ready, register, plan the in-person presentation, and

release the public artifact.

Backward plan from the paper deadline

| Weeks out (heuristic) | Game-theory-plus-experiments milestone | |---|---| | 8+ | Game defined, solution concept fixed, theorems proved | | 6 | Self-play and opponent sets designed against each claim | | 4 | Population runs complete, seeds logged | | 3 | Full draft in AAMAS two-column format | | 2 | Internal mock review by a game-theory-minded reader | | 1 | Anonymity sweep, supplement assembly, deviation-test check | | 0 | Abstract then paper on OpenReview; supplement by its own cutoff |

These offsets are planning heuristics only - anchor each to the current official timetable, and remember the AAAI, JAAMAS, and Blue Sky tracks have different deadlines.

Failure modes by stage

• Theory or the game still moving at week 3 forces last-minute definition edits nobody has

re-verified - the classic AAMAS correctness reject in the making.

• Leaving format conversion to the final week surfaces two-column overflow of game figures late.
• Skipping the mock review forfeits the only chance to hear "this is really single-agent" from a

friend instead of a reviewer.

• Building the supplement under deadline pressure is how anonymity leaks and missing opponent

sets ship.

Coordination notes

• Assign one named owner for the anonymity sweep and another for the opponent/seed logging;

shared ownership is how both slip.

• Archive the exact submitted PDF, supplement, and any deviation-test harness, since rebuttal

replies must quote them precisely and the record goes public.

Output format

text
[Current stage] idea / experiments / writing / abstract / submission / supplement / rebuttal / accepted
[Track + next deadline] <track and date/source, or unknown>
[Critical path] <three tasks that determine readiness>
[Risk register] <page / anonymity / interaction evidence / supplement / presentation>
[Owner map] <task -> person or role>