Call for Workshops

The organizing committee of PRIMA 2026 (The 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference, taking place on December 14–17, 2026 in Kumamoto, Japan.

Dates: December 14-17, 2026

Venue: Kumamoto, Japan

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

WORKSHOP

Topics of Interest

The workshop sessions can cover established topics in the multi-agent systems community, as well as emerging subfields, including but not limited to:

The workshop Proposals should contain:

A brief (2-page max) description of the workshop topic and content. This description should include:
- Title of the tutorial.
- Workshop goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop to the main conference.
- A discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
- A list of related workshops held within the last three years.
- The desired workshop length (full day or half day) and an estimate of the number of attendees.
- A preliminary workshop format, including how the program will be assembled and promoted (e.g., invited talks, panels, etc.).
- The names, affiliations, email addresses, and Webpages of the organizers.
- The brief CVs of the organizers.
- A tentative list of the programme committee members.

Proposals for workshops should be submitted as a single pdf file to the workshop chairs.

Submission Guidelines

Responsibilities

For all accepted workshops, the conference organizers will be responsible for:

Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
Providing logistic support and a meeting place for the workshop.
Together with the local organizers, determining the workshop date and time.

Workshop organizers will be responsible for:

Setting up a website for the workshop and promoting the workshop timely.
Collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection on a timely basis, and ensuring a transparent and fair selection process.

All workshop organizers are strongly advised to adopt the same deadlines for paper submissions and notifications of acceptance, as indicated in the schedule above.

Proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file to prima2026.workshop@gmail.com

Submission Procedure

Shun Okuhara, Mie University

Shiyao Ding, Kyoto University

Workshop Chairs

Important Dates

Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: July 8, 2026
Notification of Acceptance of Workshop Proposals: July 15, 2026
Workshop Webpages and 1st CFP Due: August 15, 2026
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: October 15–20, 2026
Notification to Authors: November 12, 2026
Camera-ready Papers Due: November 26, 2026
Workshop Programs Due: November 28, 2026
Workshop Date: December 14, 2026

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Foundations of Multi-Agent Systems— Core Focus

Logic and reasoning in MAS
Multi-agent coordination, cooperation, and negotiation
Algorithmic game theory and computational social choice
Normative systems, trust, and governance

Agentic and Generative AI

LLM-based agents and hybrid architectures
Autonomous pipelines and agent orchestration
Long-horizon planning and goal-directed behavior
Evaluation, robustness, safety, and alignment of agentic systems
Memory, reflection, and self-improvement in agents

Systems and Learning

Multi-agent learning and reinforcement learning
Agent engineering and system design
Agent-based modeling and simulation

Interaction and Society

Human-agent interaction and mixed-initiative systems
Decentralized applications and real-world deployments
Ethics, society, and governance of agent systems

Applications

Healthcare, education, finance, and smart cities
IoT, robotics, and distributed agent systems
Collective intelligence and social computing