CALL FOR PAPERS

The 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2025)



Conference: 15th - 21st December 2025

Modena, Italy



Conference website: https://conferences-website.github.io/prima2025



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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)



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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



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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.



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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



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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)