CALL FOR PAPERS

The 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2026)
Kumamoto, Japan - 14th - 17th December 2026.
For more info and details, please see https://www.prima2026.org.

We invite you to submit your best work on agents and multi-agent systems to PRIMA 2026, the 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, to be held in Kumamoto (Japan) in December 2026.
PRIMA 2026 welcomes original, unpublished work in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The vision of PRIMA 2026 is to move beyond traditional MAS by combining the rigorous foundations of conventional multi-agent systems with the flexibility, adaptability, and context-awareness of Generative and Agentic AI.
PRIMA 2026 will be co-located with IEEE ICA 2026 (https://attend.ieee.org/ica-2026), which places a stronger focus on Agentic AI. The two conferences are
complementary as IEEE ICA2026 emphasizes Agentic AI while PRIMA 2026 focuses on the theory, design, and practice of multi-agent systems.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline (Extended): 3 August 2026 (AoE, UTC-12)
Paper Submission Deadline (Extended): 3 August 2026 (AoE, UTC-12)
Paper Notification: 25 September 2026 (AoE, UTC-12)
Camera Ready Submission: 9 October 2026 (AoE, UTC-12)

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AREAS OF INTEREST

The conference areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Foundations of MAS
- Logic and Reasoning
- Collaboration and Coordination
- Algorithmic Game Theory
- Computational Social Choice

Systems and Learning
- Generative and Agentic AI
- Agent and Multi-Agent Learning
- Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
- Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

Interaction and Society
- Human-Agent Interaction
- Decentralized Paradigms and Applications
- Ethics, Society, and Governance

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PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES

PRIMA 2026 accepts three types of submissions.
Full papers may be up to 16 pages plus references.
Short papers may be up to 6 pages plus references.
Poster papers may be up to 3 pages plus references.
Papers submitted as Full Papers may be accepted as Short Papers or Poster Papers depending on the review results and recommendations of the Program Committee.

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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

PRIMA 2026 invites submissions of original, unpublished work that are strongly relevant to multi-agent systems. All submitted papers must be in a form suitable for double-blind review. Authors must omit their names and affiliations from the manuscript and avoid revealing identifying information.
Submissions will be reviewed by experts in the field according to standard evaluation criteria, including significance and novelty, technical quality, clarity, and adequacy of evaluation.
All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series.
Papers must be written in English and follow the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs.

PRIMA papers should be submitted through CMT at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PRIMA2026

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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Chairs: Rafik Hadfi (Kyoto University) and Shigeo Matsubara (Osaka University)
Program Chair: Donghui Lin (Okayama University) and Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah (TU Delft)
Publication Chairs: Fumito Uwano (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) and Jack McKinlay (University of Bath)
Publicity Chairs: Zhaohong Sun (Kyushu University), Zehua Si (Kyoto University), and Vahid Yazdanpanah (University of Southampton)
Web Chair: Zehua Si (Kyoto University)
Tutorial Chairs: Shun Okuhara (Mie University) and Shiyao Ding (Kyoto University)
Local Arrangements and Financial Chair: Tokuro Matsuo (Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology)

Steering Committee: Takayuki Ito, Reyhan Aydogan, Abdul Sattar, Shiyao Ding, Paolo Torroni, Edith Elkind, Nir Oren, Makoto Yokoo, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Jane Y. Hsu, Bo An, Yuko Sakurai, Mehdi Dastani, Víctor Sánchez Anguix, Guido Governatori, Joao Leite, Frank Dignum, Andrea Omicini, Katsutoshi Hirayama, Tran Cao Son, Matteo Baldoni, and Leon van der Torre.

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For inquiries regarding paper submissions, please contact: prima2026.pc@gmail.com

Further information, including the full call for papers, submission guidelines, programmes updates, and registration details, is available at:
https://www.prima2026.org/

We would greatly appreciate it if you could circulate this call within your networks.

Kind regards,
PRIMA 2026 Publicity Team