The aim of the Distributed AI (DAI) 2024 seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in related areas (e.g., general AI, multi-agent systems, distributed learning, computational game theory) to provide a high-profile, internationally renowned forum for research in the theory and practice of distributed AI. The Sixth DAI conference will be located in Singapore and have a pure format of offline in-person participation. Except for regular paper submissions, we will also invite some accepted papers from sister conferences(e.g., AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, EC, KDD, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS) to present at the conference. Besides the accepted paper sessions, we will also have high quality keynotes, workshops, tutorials and industry sessions. We are honored to welcome the following distinguished individuals as our keynote speakers: Sergey Levine, Georgios Piliouras, Richard S. Sutton, and Shuicheng Yan.

Submission Guidelines

DAI 2024 encourages the submission of theoretical, empirical, and perspective papers. Submitted papers should make clear the significance and relevance of their results to the scope and agenda of the DAI conference. Each paper should have a thorough evaluation, either theoretical or empirical, that advances the current understanding of distributed AI. Each paper should also pay attention to discussing how their work relates to the current AI literature. All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the basis of the overall quality of their technical contribution, including criteria such as originality, soundness, relevance, significance, quality of presentation, and understanding of the state of the art.

The submission deadline is Sep. 10, 2024 (23:59 UTC-12). By this time, authors are asked to submit their papers to this easychair entry. The paper notification date is Oct. 5, 2024 (23:59 UTC-12).

List of Topics

The conference solicits papers addressing original research on distributed Artificial Intelligence. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

LLM Agent:

• Alignment and safety
• Pre-training and Fine-tuning
• Tool use and planning
• Multimodal learning
• Scalability and efficiency
• Personalization and customization

Agent Cooperation:

• Biologically-inspired approaches and methods
• Collective intelligence
• Distributed problem solving
• Teamwork, team formation, teamwork analysis
• Coalition formation (non-strategic)
• Multi-robot systems
• Federated learning
• Distributed learning systems

Humans and Agents:

• Human-robot/agent interaction
• Multi-user/multi-virtual-agent interaction
• Agents competing against humans
• Agent-based analysis of human interactions
• Agents for improving human cooperative activities

Single/Multi-agent Learning:

• Reward structures for learning
• Multi-agent learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Deep learning
• Adversarial machine learning

Computational Game Theory:

• Complexity of algorithms for games
• Practical algorithms for games
• Behavioral models of games
• Security games

Economics and Computation:

• Auctions and mechanism design
• Market design and applications
• Social choice theory
• Game theory for practical applications
• Economics of blockchain systems

Publication

The paper length is limited to 8 pages (excluding references). Authors may use as many pages of appendices (after the bibliography) as they wish, but reviewers are not required to read these. Any supplementary material should be included after the main paper in the same PDF file. Please note that the reviewers are not required to read this extra material when assessing the paper. The DAI 2024 review process is DOUBLE BLIND. Please make sure that the submission does not disclose the authors' identities or affiliations.

To prepare your submission to DAI 2024, please use the LaTeX or Word.

  - The Latex/overleaf template guideline can be found here: ACM-SIG Proceedings Template

  - The Word template guideline can be found here: ACM Primary Article Template

(you can also use the LaTex template provided at: Download Latex Template)

Important note to authors about the new ACM open access publishing model

ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.

Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows:

Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faqFull details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info@acm.org.

Venue

The conference will be held on the campus of Singapore Management University (SMU).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Yaodong Yang (yaodong.yang@pku.edu.cn), Long Tran-Thanh (long.tran-thanh@warwick.ac.uk).