An Overview of Recent Application Trends at the AAMAS Conference: Security, Sustainability, and Safety

A key feature of the AAMAS conference is its emphasis on ties to real-world applications. The focus of this article is to provide a broad overview of application-focused papers published at the AAMAS 2010 and 2011 conferences. More specifically, recent applications at AAMAS could be broadly categorized as belonging to research areas of security, sustainability, and safety. We outline the domains of applications, key research thrusts underlying each such application area, and emerging trends. This emphasis of trying to marry theory and practice at AAMAS goes all the way back to the origins of its predecessor conferences, such as the first International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Johnson 1997).