The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 in Bologna, Italy as a joint event comprising the 6th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA), the 5th International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS), and the 9th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). 

Subsequent AAMAS conferences have been held in Melbourne, Australia (July 2003), New York City, NY, USA (July 2004), Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 2005), Hakodate, Japan (May 2006), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (May 2007), Estoril, Portugal (May 2008), Budapest, Hungary (May 2009), Toronto, Canada (May 2010), Taipei, Taiwan (May 2011) and Valencia, Spain (June 2012). AAMAS 2013 will be held in May in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. 

AAMAS is the largest and most influential conference in the area of agents and multiagent systems, the aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners in all areas of agent technology and to provide a single, high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. 

AAMAS is the flagship conference of the non-profit International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). 

• Agent Communication
  • Agent commitments
  • Communication languages
  • Communication protocols
  • Speech act theory

• Agent Cooperation
  • Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
  • Collective intelligence
  • Distributed problem solving
  • Human-robot/agent interaction
  • Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
  • Teamwork, coalition formation, coordination
  • Incentives for Cooperation
  • Implicit Cooperation

• Agent Reasoning
  • Planning (single and multiagent)
  • Reasoning (single and multiagent)
  • Cognitive models
  • Knowledge representation

• Agent Societies and Societal issues
  • Artificial social systems
  • Environments, organisations and institutions
  • Ethical and legal issues
  • Peer to peer coordination
  • Privacy, safety and security
  • Social and organizational structure
  • Trust, reliability and reputation

• Agent Theories, Models and Architectures
  • BDI
  • Belief revision
  • Bounded rationality
  • Formal models of agency
  • Logic-based approaches and methods
  • Mobile agents
  • Modeling other agents and self
  • Modeling the dynamics of MAS
  • Reactive vs. deliberative approaches
  • Service oriented architectures
  • Verification of MAS

• Agent-based simulation
  • Artificial societies
  • Emergent behavior
  • Simulation techniques, tools and environments
  • Social simulation

• Agent-based system development
  • Agent development techniques, tools and environments
  • Agent programming languages
  • Agent specification or validation languages
  • Design languages for agent systems
  • Development environments
  • Programming languages
  • P2P, web services, grid computing
  • Software engineering (agent- or multi agent-oriented)

• Agreement Technologies
  • Argumentation
  • Collective decision making
  • Judgment aggregation and belief merging
  • Negotiation
  • Norms

• Economic paradigms
  • Electronic markets
  • Economically-motivated agents
  • Game Theory (cooperative and non-cooperative)
  • Social choice theory
  • Voting protocols
  • Artificial economies/markets
  • Auction and mechanism design
  • Bargaining and negotiation

• Learning and Adaptation
  • Computational architectures for learning
  • Reward structures for learning
  • Evolution, adaptation
  • Co-evolution
  • Single agent Learning
  • Multiagent Learning

• Systems and Organisation
  • Autonomic computing
  • Complex systems
  • Self-organisation