AAMAS Workflow

Use this as the project-management skill for an AAMAS submission. Replace every date with the current official timetable and work backward from the OpenReview cutoffs.

AAMAS is a conference owned by IFAAMAS, not a journal: it has no editor-in-chief and no article-processing charge. Each edition is run by rotating General and Program Chairs, the cost model is registration, and accepted papers are published open-access by IFAAMAS. Re-check the current CFP and organization page rather than carrying names or dates forward - as of 2026-07-09 the live target is AAMAS 2027, whose full timetable was not yet confirmable.

Milestones

• Venue fit: confirm the contribution is genuinely about interacting agents and choose the track (main full paper, extended abstract, AAAI, JAAMAS, Blue Sky, Demo, Competitions).
• Evidence lock: freeze the game, agent objectives, theorems, opponent sets, experiments, and supplement contents.
• Abstract deadline: submit the short plain-text abstract, authors, and keywords (main track's abstract is due before the paper).
• Paper deadline: upload the double-blind PDF and OpenReview fields.
• Supplement deadline: upload the anonymized zip within the size cap.
• Rebuttal window: respond to preliminary reviews with anonymous, evidence-anchored text; no new results.
• Decision: archive reviews, rebuttal, and the submitted version (all become public).
• Acceptance: prepare the IFAAMAS camera-ready, register, plan the in-person presentation, and release the public artifact.

Backward plan from the paper deadline

Weeks out (heuristic)	Game-theory-plus-experiments milestone
8+	Game defined, solution concept fixed, theorems proved
6	Self-play and opponent sets designed against each claim
4	Population runs complete, seeds logged
3	Full draft in AAMAS two-column format
2	Internal mock review by a game-theory-minded reader
1	Anonymity sweep, supplement assembly, deviation-test check
0	Abstract then paper on OpenReview; supplement by its own cutoff

These offsets are planning heuristics only - anchor each to the current official timetable, and remember the AAAI, JAAMAS, and Blue Sky tracks have different deadlines.

Failure modes by stage

• Theory or the game still moving at week 3 forces last-minute definition edits nobody has re-verified - the classic AAMAS correctness reject in the making.
• Leaving format conversion to the final week surfaces two-column overflow of game figures late.
• Skipping the mock review forfeits the only chance to hear "this is really single-agent" from a friend instead of a reviewer.
• Building the supplement under deadline pressure is how anonymity leaks and missing opponent sets ship.

Coordination notes

• Assign one named owner for the anonymity sweep and another for the opponent/seed logging; shared ownership is how both slip.
• Archive the exact submitted PDF, supplement, and any deviation-test harness, since rebuttal replies must quote them precisely and the record goes public.

Output format

[Current stage] idea / experiments / writing / abstract / submission / supplement / rebuttal / accepted
[Track + next deadline] <track and date/source, or unknown>
[Critical path] <three tasks that determine readiness>
[Risk register] <page / anonymity / interaction evidence / supplement / presentation>
[Owner map] <task -> person or role>