Call for Papers: The 8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW)@AAMAS 2026

Webpage: https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/

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Submission Deadline: February 4, 2026 (AoE) -

Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 -

Camera Ready: TBD (AoE) -

Workshop: May 26, 2026

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions to the 8th iteration of the Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop, co-located with AAMAS 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus, https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/.

Games, Agents and Incentives is a confederated workshop which focuses on agents and incentives in AI. In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics including CoopMAS, AMEC, and EXPLORE.

Over the past two decades, the focus of agent incentives in decentralised and centralised AI systems has increased dramatically. These issues come up when designing preference aggregation mechanisms and markets; computing equilibria and bidding strategies; facilitating cooperation among agents; and fairly dividing resources.

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PAPER SUBMISSION

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Authors should submit full papers electronically in PDF format at: https://openreview.net/group?id=ifaamas.org/AAMAS/2026/Workshop/GAIW

Formatting Guidelines: Please format papers according to the AAMAS 2026 format (https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/).

Paper Length: Papers can be at most 8 pages long in AAMAS format. Additional pages may be used for references.

Supplemental material can be appended at the end of the paper. However, reviewers are instructed to make their evaluations based on the main submission, and are not obligated to consult the supplemental material.

Multiple Submissions: To widen participation and encourage discussion, there will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. We will, however, post the accepted papers online to the benefit of the participants to the workshop. Therefore, submission of preliminary work and papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to other major venues in the field are encouraged.

Past Submissions: In order to strike a balance between new work and work that may have been presented, but not widely seen, we ask that if authors want to submit published work they do so non-anonymously and clearly indicate when and where the work was published. We will only accept work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., IJCAI 2025, NeurIPS 2025, AAAI 2025, AAAI 2026 and any conference held strictly after Jan 1, 2025).

We invite papers on topics of game theory, mechanism design, fair allocation, computational social choice, and their applications to multi-agent systems:

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Agentic AI Systems -

Algorithmic mechanism design -

Auctions -

Behavioral Game Theory -

Bounded rationality -

Cooperative Games -

Computational advertising -

Computational aspects of equilibria -

Computational social choice -

Coalitions, coordination, collective action, and cooperation -

Economic aspects of security and privacy -

Economic aspects of distributed and network computing -

Equilibrium computation -

Empirical approaches to e-markets -

Fairness (in ML & elsewhere) -

Fair Division -

Incentives in machine learning -

Information and attention economics -

Learning in games (e.g., solution concepts and equilibria) -

Matching and Matching Markets -

Negotiation -

Preference aggregation and reasoning -

Price differentiation and price dynamics -

Social networks -

Trading agent design and analysis -

Uncertainty in AI and economic

Best Presentation Award: The organizing committee of GAIW will be giving two awards (first-place and runner up) for best paper presentations. The award criteria include the clarity of presentation, the level of engagement, the content, and discussion handling.

Inquiries: If you have any questions, direct them to a********g@carleton.ca.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission Deadline: February 4, 2026 (AoE) -

Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 -

Camera Ready: TBD (AoE) -

Workshop: May 26, 2026

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ORGANIZATION

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Program Chairs

Ben Armstrong, Tulane University

Michael Curry, University of Illinois Chicago

Hadi Hosseini, Penn State University

Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University

Alan Tsang, Carleton University

Tomasz Wąs, University of Oxford