AAMAS Review Process

Use this to reason about review-stage strategy. Reopen the current CFP, OpenReview group, author and reviewer instructions, and the code of conduct before making process claims; AAMAS review specifics move between editions.

Process model

• AAMAS runs submission and review on OpenReview under the IFAAMAS namespace in recent cycles.
• Reviewers evaluate technical correctness, the significance of the interaction contribution, the reality and rigor of the multiagent evaluation, clarity, reproducibility, and fit with agents-and-multiagent-systems scope.
• A rebuttal lets authors respond to preliminary reviews before the final decision; area chairs then synthesize.
• Accepted papers and their reviews are published, so the review record is durable and public.
• The most useful rebuttal gives the area chair a clean rationale for acceptance, not a point-by-point defense of every comment.

Who reviews here

• The pool mixes game theorists, multiagent-RL researchers, mechanism-design and social-choice specialists, and systems-minded reviewers; expect at least one to read the game definition and solution concept line by line.
• Because AAMAS is specialized, a paper is likely to meet a reviewer who works on exactly its subarea, so a vague equilibrium claim or an under-specified opponent set gets caught rather than skimmed.
• Borderline interaction papers usually fail on one of three edges: the result turns out to be single-agent in disguise, the solution concept is never pinned down, or the multiagent evaluation is thin (self-play only, no seeds, no held-out opponents).

Scoring leverage table