AAMAS Related Work

Use this to audit novelty and eligibility. Reopen the current CFP for dual-submission, anonymity, and prior-publication rules before advising authors; much of the nearest multiagent work lives at other venues, which shapes both positioning and eligibility.

Positioning checks

• Separate the interaction novelty from engineering improvement: a new solution concept, mechanism, learning-dynamics result, coordination protocol, negotiation strategy, or empirical multiagent finding.
• Compare across communities: AAMAS itself, the AI conferences (AAAI, IJCAI), the ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML), and economics-and-computation venues (EC), plus the JAAMAS journal. Many landmark multiagent papers are not at AAMAS, so a bibliography that only cites AAMAS is as suspicious as one that ignores it.
• Treat conference proceedings and journals as archival unless the current rules say otherwise.
• Cite arXiv and workshop versions without breaking double-blind; do not point reviewers to an identity-revealing page.
• Explain overlap with any concurrent or prior version, and do not submit duplicate archival work.

Cross-community coverage table

Literature lane	Typical sources	What AAMAS reviewers check
Agents / multiagent core	AAMAS, JAAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI agent tracks	Whether the nearest multiagent method is compared or explicitly distinguished
Multiagent RL	NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, prior AAMAS	Whether MADDPG/QMIX/COMA-style cousins are cited even though they are not AAMAS papers
Game theory / mechanism design	EC, GEB, algorithmic game-theory venues	Whether the solution concept and known impossibility results are acknowledged
Social choice / negotiation	AAMAS, AAAI, COMSOC, ADT	Whether standard axioms and strategyproofness usage are followed