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The ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research AwardACM SIGART, in collaboration with the International Conference
on Autonomous Agents, in 2000 has instituted an annual award for
excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award
is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose
current work is an important influence on the field. The award is
an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGART
from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. Winner of 2009 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2007 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
In addition to her substantial research contributions, Prof Kraus has served the autonomous agents research community in many ways. She was PC chair of the Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS2000), and general co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2005). She has been an associate editor of the AAMAS journal since its founding, and an editor of AI Journal since 2000. Sarit is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland. Winner of 2006 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2005 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2004 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2003 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
Winner of 2002 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
In recognition of her award, Dr. Sycara has given an address at the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, in Bologna, Italy, July 17-19, 2002. The title of her presentation is "Agents Supporting Humans and Organizations in Open,Dynamic Environments." Winner of 2001 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
In recognition of the award, Dr. Sandholm has presented an invited lecture at the 2001 International Conference on Autonomous Agents. The title of his presentation is "Agents in Combinatorial Markets."
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The
selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Manuela M. Veloso of Carnegie
Mellon University is the recipient of the 2009 award. Prof. Veloso
has made significant and sustained contributions to Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent Systems in the areas of planning and control learning
in multi-agent systems. Prof. Veloso's research is particularly
noteworthy for its focus on the effective construction of teams
of robot agents where cognition, perception, and action are seamlessly
integrated to address planning, execution, and learning tasks. She
has made significant contributions to agents in uncertain and dynamic
environments, including distributed robot localization and world
modeling, strategy selection in multiagent systems in the presence
of adversaries, planning by analogical reuse, and more recently,
robot learning from demonstration. Her research contributions have
also been realized concretely in the form of teams of robot soccer
playing agents that have won several international championships
at the annual RoboCup robot soccer competitions. Her impact and
visibility has been consistently high over the past two decades
for her technical contributions, for her impressive robot teams,
and for her leadership within the research community.
The
selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Yoav Shoham of Stanford
University is the recipient of the 2008 award. Prof. Shoham has
made significant and sustained contributions to Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent Systems in the areas of logic and game theory. He
has made contributions on logics of knowledge and belief and on
non-monotonic logic. He has proposed techniques of belief revision
and importantly for MAS, a theory of belief fusion. He defined the
framework for Agent Oriented Programming that represented a programming
view of those theoretical notions studied. The paper describing
AOP and published in 1993 is still one of the most cited papers
on Agents research. His research on Game Theory includes seminal
work on combinatorial auctions and on several topics on mechanism
design. He performed early work on Social Laws and Conventions.
He has proposed algorithms and test beds (CATS and GAMUT) that are
widely used. On the practical side, he has founded two successful
companies in the eCommerce industry. Overall, his research covers
formal and practical aspects, and the impact of his work has been
consistently very high for the last fifteen years. 
The
selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Prof Sarit Kraus, of Bar-Ilan
University, Israel, is the recipient of the 2007 award. Prof Kraus
is well known for her work on formal models of multi-agent systems.
In particular, she pioneered the development of techniques for computational
negotiation, automated coalition formation, cooperative search,
and the logical formalization of cooperation and multi-agent shared
plans. She has also made significant and lasting contributions to
the wider field of AI, in areas such as search and non-monotonic
reasoning.
The
selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Wooldridge of the
University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006 award.
Dr. Wooldridge has made significant and sustained contributions
to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In
particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the
logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal
theories of cooperation, teamwork and communication, computational
complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering.
In addition to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Wooldridge
has served the autonomous agents research community, in a variety
of ways including founding of the AgentLink Network of Excellence
in 1997 and most recently as the Technical Program co-chair of the
Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent
Systems (AAMAS2005). 
The
selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Milind Tambe of the University
of Southern California is the recipient of the 2005 award. Dr. Tambe
has made significant and sustained contributions to the research
on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr.
Tambe made seminal contributions to the theory, applications, and
software infrastructure in the area of teamwork, which has become
a flourishing research area in multi agent systems. In addition
to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Tambe has served
the autonomous agents research community, in a variety of ways most
recently as the General co-chair of the Third International Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2004). 
The
selection committee for the SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
is pleased to announce that Dr. Makoto Yokoo of the NTT Communication
Science Laboratories is the recipient of the 2004 award. Dr. Yokoo
has made significant and sustained contributions to the research
on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr.
Yokoo made seminal contributions to the area of distributed constrain
satisfaction, which has become a flourishing research area in multi
agent systems. Dr. Yokoo has also contributed to the areas of mechanism
design in anonymous environments and secure protocols for combinatorial
optimization problems. In addition to his substantial research contributions,
Dr. Yokoo has served the autonomous agents research community, most
recently as a Technical Program co-chair of the Second International
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent systems (AAMAS 2003)
and has been a leading figure in the autonomous agents community
in Japan and Asia/Pacific Rim. 
Prof.
Jennings has undertaken a broad research agenda that continues to
have a broad impact on the agent research community. His work is
consistently among the most frequently cited agent researchers,
both within the agent research community and in the computer science
literature in general. He has developed a number of agent-based
applications in a variety of domains. Furthermore, the Gaia methodology
for agent-based software engineering, which he developed with Michael
Wooldridge, is well recognized in the field. In addition, Prof.
Jennings has made contributions to areas of automated negotiation
and combinatorial auctions. Prof. Jennings has also been active
in other technical areas that overlap with agent research, such
as the semantic Web and grid computing. Prof. Jennings has had good
success in promoting the transfer of agent-based methods into industry.
He acts as chief scientist at Lost Wax, and consults on a number
of commercial agent projects. We believe that his efforts have helped
fuel commercial interest in agent-based techniques.
Katia
Sycara of Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded the ACM SIGART
Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2002. Dr. Sycara has made significant
contributions to a number of subareas of agent research, including
agent architectures, middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation.
She has played a major role in organizing the Journal Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and the International Conferences
on Autonomous Agents.
The
winner of the 2001 award is Tuomas Sandholm, of Carnegie Mellon
University. Dr. Sandholm has conducted an intensive research program
in electronic markets and multi-agent systems, and has also done
work in other areas of autonomous agents. The breadth and depth
of his contributions over a relatively short period of time are
impressive. In addition, he has been an active contributor to the
Autonomous Agents community, contributing regularly to the AA conference
since its inception.