Congratulations to the #AAMAS2026 best paper award winners

Congratulations to the #AAMAS2026 best paper award winners

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**Lucy Smith ** 08 June 2026

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The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. The winners and nominees in the three categories (best paper, best student paper, best blue sky paper) are as follows:

Best Paper Award

Winner

Developing Guidelines for Human-LLM Agent Teams: A Multi-Stakeholder Lens, Mireia Yurrita, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Catholijn M Jonker, and Pinar Yolum

Nominees

UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles, Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander Todd Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, and Ufuk Topcu Ratio-Based Signaling for Source-Victim Separation in Swarm Fault Detection, Longyin Cui The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation, Manuel Eberl and Patrick Lederer Generalized Per-Agent Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Optimization, Seongmin Kim, Giseung Park, Woojun Kim, Jiwon Jeon, Seungyul Han, and Youngchul Sung R-Debater: Retrieval-Augmented Debate Generation through Argumentative Memory, Maoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Haoyuan Li, and Jiamou Liu Defection at First Sight: Learning Partner Selection in Optional Social Dilemmas without Prior Information, Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, and Paolo Turrini Characterizing Consensuses in Belief Flow Networks, Nicolas Schwind, Gauvain Bourgne, and Katsumi Inoue Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale, Nimrod Talmon and Ehud Shapiro Health Facility Location in Ethiopia: Leveraging LLMs to Integrate Expert Knowledge into Algorithmic Planning, Yohai Trabelsi, Guojun Xiong, Fentabil Getnet, Stéphane Verguet, and Milind Tambe MeCo: Enhancing LLM-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration via Similar Task Memoization, Baiqing Wang, Helei Cui, Bo Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu

Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award

Winner

Planning Ahead with RSA: Efficient Signalling in Dynamic Environments by Projecting User Awareness across Future Timesteps, Anwesha Das, John Duff, Jörg Hoffmann, and Vera Demberg

Nominees

**Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation G