ALA 2025
19 & 20 May 2025, Detroit, Michigan, USA
News
- 6 Dec 2025: ALA 2025 Website goes live!
ALA 2025 - Workshop at AAMAS 2025
Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) encompasses diverse fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Biology, as well as Cognitive and Social Sciences. The ALA workshop will focus on agents and multiagent systems which employ learning or adaptation.
The goal of this workshop is to increase awareness of and interest in adaptive agent research, encourage collaboration and give a representative overview of current research in the area of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems. It aims at bringing together not only scientists from different areas of computer science (e.g. agent architectures, reinforcement learning, evolutionary algorithms) but also from different fields studying similar concepts (e.g. game theory, bio-inspired control, mechanism design).
The workshop will serve as an inclusive forum for the discussion of ongoing or completed work covering both theoretical and practical aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems.
This workshop will focus on all aspects of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems with a particular amphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and/or create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Novel combinations of reinforcement and supervised learning approaches
- Integrated learning approaches using reasoning modules like negotiation, trust, coordination, etc..
- Supervised and semi-supervised multi-agent learning
- Reinforcement learning (single- and multi-agent)
- Novel deep learning approaches for adaptive single- and multi-agent systems
- Multi-objective optimisation in single- and multi-agent systems
- Planning (single- and multi-agent)
- Reasoning (single- and multi-agent)
- Distributed learning
- Adaptation and learning in dynamic environments
- Evolution of agents in complex environments
- Co-evolution of agents in a multi-agent setting
- Cooperative exploration and learning to cooperate and collaborate
- Learning trust and reputation
- Communication restrictions and their impact on multi-agent coordination
- Design of reward structure and fitness measures for coordination
- Scaling learning techniques to large systems of learning and adaptive agents
- Emergent behaviour in adaptive multi-agent systems
- Game theoretical analysis of adaptive multi-agent systems
- Neuro-control in multi-agent systems
- Bio-inspired multi-agent systems
- Human-in-the-loop learning systems
- Applications of adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems to real world complex systems
Important Dates
Submission Details
Papers can be submitted through OpenReview (link will be added soon!).
We invite submission of original work, up to 8 pages in length (excluding references) in the ACM proceedings format (i.e. following the AAMAS formatting instructions). This includes work that has been accepted as a poster/extended abstract at AAMAS 2025. Keeping with previous ALA guidelines, papers are limited to 8 pages plus references. Additionally, we welcome submission of preliminary results, i.e. work-in-progress, as well as visionary outlook papers that lay out directions for future research in a specific area, both up to 6 pages in length, although shorter papers are very much welcome, and will not be judged differently. Finally, we also accept recently published journal papers in the form of a 2 page abstract.
Furthermore, for submissions that were rejected or accepted as extended abstracts at AAMAS, authors need to also append the received reviews and a pdfdiff.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed (double-blind). Accepted work will be allocated time for poster and possibly oral presentation during the workshop. In line with AAMAS, the workshop will be fully offline.
When preparing your submission for ALA 2025, please be sure to remove the AAMAS copyright block, citation information and running headers. Please replace the AAMAS copyright block in the main.tex file from the AAMAS template with the following:
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\acmYear{2025}
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For the submission of the camera-ready paper make sure to submit the deanonymized version with the replaced copyright block above.
Previous Editions
This workshop is a continuation of the long running AAMAS series of workshops on adaptive agents, now in its sixteenth year. Previous editions of this workshop may be found at the following urls:
Organization
This year's workshop is organised by:- Raphael Avalos (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
- A. Alp Aydeniz (Oregon State University, US)
- Henrik Müller (Leibniz University Hannover, DE)
- Montaser Mohammedalamen (University of Alberta, CA)
- Enda Howley (University of Galway, IE)
- Daniel Kudenko (Leibniz University Hannover, DE)
- Patrick Mannion (University of Galway, IE)
- Ann Nowé (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BE)
- Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, US)
- Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, US)
- Matthew Taylor (University of Alberta, CA)
- Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, US)
- Karl Tuyls (University of Liverpool, UK)
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