Important Dates

Abstract Submission Deadline: July 13, 2026
Paper Submission Deadline: July 20, 2026
Paper Notification: September 25, 2026
Camera Ready Submission: October 9, 2026

All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC-12).
For queries related to submissions, please contact the PRIMA 2026 Program Chairs.
For responses to questions frequently asked by authors who wish to submit to PRIMA, a FAQ page will be posted here soon.

Areas of Interest

We welcome submissions on all aspects of MAS, including but not limited to:

Foundations of MAS

Logic and Reasoning:
- Logics of agency, belief, knowledge, and intention
- Norms, obligations, and deontic logic
- Argumentation theory
- Reasoning under uncertainty
Collaboration & Coordination:
- Multi-agent planning, teamwork, and coalition formation
- Distributed problem-solving and optimization
- Negotiation, trust and reputation, and commitments
- Institutions, organizations, and normative systems
Algorithmic Game Theory:
- Auctions and mechanism design
- Cooperative games (theory, analysis, computation)
- Noncooperative games (theory, analysis, computation)
- Behavioral game theory
Computational Social Choice:
- Voting theory and aggregation rules
- Fair division and resource allocation
- Matching theory (preference-based)
- Participatory budgeting, communication, and distortion

Systems and Learning

Generative and Agentic AI:
- Agents embodied with Large Language Models (LLMs)
- LLM-based planning, reasoning, and agentic workflows
- Coordination and cooperation of generative agents
- Modeling and analysis of generative MAS
- Verification, safety, and evaluation of agentic systems
Agent and Multi-Agent Learning:
- Reinforcement learning (multi-agent, distributed)
- Evolutionary approaches
- Machine learning in MAS
- Learning for value alignment
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems:
- Agent-oriented software engineering
- Interaction protocols, formal specification, and verification
- Agent programming languages, middleware, and platforms
- Testing, debugging, and deployed system case studies
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation:
- Simulation languages and platforms
- Artificial societies and virtual environments
- Modeling emergent behavior
- System dynamics
- Application case studies (e.g., economics, society, ecology)

Interaction and Society

Human-Agent Interaction:
- Adaptive personal assistants
- Embodied conversational agents
- Virtual characters and multimodal user interfaces
- Human-robot interaction
- Affective computing
Decentralized Paradigms & Applications:
- Cloud, edge, IoT, and cybersecurity
- Robotics and multi-robot systems
- Smart cities, transport, and logistics
- Energy management
- Healthcare, e-business, e-learning
- Games and entertainment
- Sustainability and resource management
Ethics, Society, and Governance:
- Explainable AI (XAI) and agent transparency
- Ethics, fairness, and accountability of AI systems
- AI and Democracy (e.g., deliberation, opinion formation, countering misinformation)
- Multi-agent systems for social good
- Governance and regulation of agent societies

Full papers, 16 pages plus references
Short papers, 6 pages plus references
Poster papers, 3 pages plus references

Note: Papers submitted as Full Papers may be accepted as Short Papers or Poster Papers depending on the review results and the recommendations of the Program Committee.

Submission Types

PRIMA 2026 invites submissions of original, unpublished work in the field of 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 and review papers that are of particular relevance to the multi-agent community.

Information for Authors

All papers accepted must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. At least one author must register for PRIMA 2026.

Presentation Requirement

All accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).

Publication

Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2-3 experts based on its significance, novelty, technical quality, clarity, evaluation methodology, and ethical considerations.

Review Process

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Papers should be submitted via Microsoft CMT (http://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/prima2026).

For queries related to submissions, please contact the PRIMA 2026 Program Chairs: prima2026.pc@gmail.com.

Submission Portal

All submissions must be in English and adhere to the page limits specified above and follow the Springer LNCS format. Please note that registering an abstract of your paper (of around 100-300 words in plain text) is required one week before the paper submission deadline.

All submitted papers (Full, Short, and Poster papers) must be prepared for double-blind review. To facilitate this, authors must omit their names and affiliations from the manuscript. While references should include all published literature relevant to the paper (including the authors' previous work), please avoid citing the authors' own unpublished works. When referencing your own published work, use the third person. For example, use "Previously, Foo and Bar [2] have shown that…" instead of "In our previous work [2], we have shown that…". Identifying information should be restored only in the final camera-ready version of accepted papers. Submissions that fail to meet these requirements will be rejected without further review.

Formatting and Submission Guidelines

The vision for PRIMA 2026 is to chart a path "Beyond Traditional MAS" by fusing the rigorous foundations of conventional Multi-Agent Systems with the flexibility, adaptability, and context-awareness of Generative and Agentic AI (GAAI). As advanced AI models proliferate, the MAS community is at a critical juncture. Research is shifting from static agent design to the engineering of "Next-Generation Agent Systems"—complex ecosystems where LLM-based agents, traditional MAS components, and humans effectively coexist. PRIMA 2026 invites contributions that explore these new AI-driven possibilities while advancing the foundational disciplines essential for building robust, reliable, and beneficial agent societies.

Scope and Background

Dates: December 14-17, 2026

Venue: Kumamoto, Japan

The 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems