Format

CLaRAMAS is a 1-day workshop hosted by AAMAS’26 taking place on May 26th at the Coral Beach Hotel & Resort in the wonderful city of Paphos, Cyprus. Travel information is available from the dedicated AAMAS’26 page.

The workshop features the following activities:

  • 1 invited talk by Prof. Emiliano Lorini, leading expert in causal reasoning and engineering of agent systems (morning)
  • oral presentations for all the accepted full and short papers split into topic-based sessions spanning both the morning and the afternoon, and each followed by a Q&A window
  • 2 poster sessions for papers accepted as extended abstracts (see the submission page), planned during the coffee breaks
  • a working activity with focus groups assembled during the day, depending on participants’ interests (scheduled dynamically, but most probably at the end of the afternoon session)

The focus groups have separate, “hands-on” brainstorming sessions meant to pinpoint the most promising research directions to be pursued within the AAMAS community, the most pressing challenges to be dealt with, and the open issues still needing clarification, with the aim of collaboratively drafting a white paper on causal learning and reasoning in agents and MAS.

Schedule

The workshop takes place in room APHRODITE A.

The table below reports the bird’s-eye view schedule of the workshop, indicating the time slots during which the different activities will happen.

When Duration What Where
8:45-9:00   👋 Opening Aphrodite A
9:00-9:45 (45’) 👨‍🎓 Keynote (Prof. Emiliano Lorini) Aphrodite A
9:45-10:15 (30’) Short papers I Aphrodite A
10:15-11:00 (45’) Posters I 🏞️ (during coffee break ☕) Aphrodite A
11:00-11:15 (15’) Short papers II Aphrodite A
11:15-12:30 (75’) Full papers I Aphrodite A
12:30-14:00 (90’) 👩🏻‍🍳 Lunch break 🤌🏻 Aphrodite A
14:00-15:15 (75’) Full papers II Aphrodite A
15:15-15:30 (15’) Introduction to focus groups Aphrodite A
15:30-16:15 (45’) Posters II 🏞️ (during coffe break ☕) Aphrodite A
16:15-17:30 (75’) 🧠 Focus groups ✍ Aphrodite A
17:30   Closing 👋 Aphrodite A

Every poster will be on display during every coffee break :)

The table below further details which paper is allocated to which slot.

⚠️ Although PDFs of accepted papers and posters are already available on OpenReview, they will be linked here as soon as they are updated with author details. ⚠️

Paper title Session Starting at Paper authors
Multi-Agent Causal Reasoning Framework: Optimizing Advertising Incrementality via Daily Budget Allocation Under a Fixed Lifetime Budget Short papers I 9:45 Paul Lo; Jing Pan; Jingxi Yu; Evelyn Wu; Erte Pan; Simon Hollands
Collaborative Causal Discovery in a Synthetic Environment: Empirical Evaluation of FLODO Short papers I 10:00 André Meyer-Vitali; Matteo Gregorini
Causal Expectations for Decentralised Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems Short papers II 11:00 John R. E. Mills; Peter R. Lewis
Causal Learning and Reasoning in Multi-Agent Systems: Goals, Issues, and Taxonomy Full papers I 11:15 Stefano Mariani; Giovanni Briglia; André Meyer-Vitali; Matthias Klusch; Franco Zambonelli
From Implicit to Explicit Causal Models in BDI Agents: A Proof-of-Concept with Causal Discovery and Adaptive Policy Full papers I 11:40 Meltem Gullusac; Baris Tekin Tezel; Moharram Challenger
Evolutionary Learning of Graphical Causal Models from Behavior Full papers I 12:05 H. Van Dyke Parunak
Value Identifiable, Credit Not: A Credit-First Identifiability Frontier for Confounded Sequential Decision-Making Full papers II 14:00 Teresa Zhang
Reproducing and Extending Counterfactual Data Augmentation: A Study on Causal Identifiability and Stability in Reinforcement Learning Full papers II 14:25 Shilpa Noushad; Sajan Kumar; Pratyush uppuluri
CoACT: Coordination via Aligned Centralized Training in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Full papers II 14:50 Oussama Azizi; Frans A Oliehoek; Matthijs T. J. Spaan