[CFP] Workshop on Ad Hoc Teamwork at AAAI’24

[Muhammad Arrasy Rahman]

Dear Colleagues, 

We invite you to submit to the Workshop on Ad Hoc Teamwork (WAHT) that will take place at AAAI 2024 in Vancouver, Canada.

https://sites.google.com/view/ad-hoc-teamwork/home

Ad hoc teamwork is defined as a challenge to design autonomous agents that can collaborate with unknown teammates without prior coordination. Related problems include zero-shot coordination, agent modeling, and human-agent collaborations. The aim of this interactive workshop is to build a united, supportive research community for ad hoc teamwork and these related problems, consisting of both academia and industry. It will facilitate discussions, identify the main attributes that can vary between ad-hoc teamwork tasks, and discuss the progress that has been made in this field so far. It will also identify the next immediate and long-term open problems the community should address.  

We invite researchers to participate in this hands-on workshop to consolidate the lessons that they learned so far and to discuss the next steps in this prolific research avenue. These discussions will enable researchers to have more productive collaborations and opportunities to address the ad hoc teamwork problem better.

This workshop will take place on February 26, 2024, as part of the AAAI workshop program. This workshop is planned to be in in-person mode, so at least one of the authors (or a representative on their behalf) should attend AAAI in person and register for the workshop.

We invite researchers to submit papers on the following topics:

• Ad hoc teamwork

• Zero-shot multiagent learning

• Adaptive learning agents

• Cooperation with new teammates in-game settings

• Agent modeling

• Theory of mind of new teammates

• Plan and Goal Recognition

• Learning communication protocols on-the-fly

• Cooperation in open environments

• Human-Agent and Human-Robot Interactions

Submission details:

The submission deadline is November 24, 2023.

Notifications will be sent on December 4, 2023.

Workshop: February 26, 2024.

Submission:
As this workshop is meant to support community building and facilitate discussion in AHT, we encourage mature research and early-stage research submissions. Early-stage research submissions should be in a 2-page long format (excluding references). Meanwhile, more mature research (as well as talk-only submissions of recently published work) are in an 8-page long format (excluding references). All accepted papers would be presented in a lightning talk and a poster session. Reviews will be single-blind (author names are on the paper during submission), and the submission format should follow AAAI formatting guidelines (https://aaai.org/authorkit24-2/). Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website without formal proceedings.

Submission link: 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waht24

More details can be found on the workshop’s website: https://sites.google.com/view/ad-hoc-teamwork/home

Organizing and Program Committee:

Ignacio Carlucho, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom 

Hasra Dodampegama, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 

Elliot Fosong, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

Muhammad Arrasy Rahman,  The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Reuth Mirsky, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Advisory Committee:

Stefano Albrecht, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mohan Sridharan, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 

Peter Stone, The University of Texas at Austin, USA