aamas-related-work
GitHub辅助AAMAS论文定位，审计新颖性与投稿资格。涵盖跨社区文献对比（AI/ML/Game Theory），指导如何区分交互创新与工程改进，处理双盲引用、并发工作及避免常见拒稿模式。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aamas-related-work -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "aamas-related-work",
"description": "Use when positioning an AAMAS submission against multiagent, game-theory, and reinforcement-learning literature spread across AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, EC, and JAAMAS, including arXiv and workshop versions, concurrent submissions, prior conference versions, and the cross-community citation coverage AAMAS reviewers expect."
}
AAMAS Related Work
Use this to audit novelty and eligibility. Reopen the current CFP for dual-submission, anonymity, and prior-publication rules before advising authors; much of the nearest multiagent work lives at other venues, which shapes both positioning and eligibility.
Positioning checks
- Separate the interaction novelty from engineering improvement: a new solution concept, mechanism, learning-dynamics result, coordination protocol, negotiation strategy, or empirical multiagent finding.
- Compare across communities: AAMAS itself, the AI conferences (AAAI, IJCAI), the ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML), and economics-and-computation venues (EC), plus the JAAMAS journal. Many landmark multiagent papers are not at AAMAS, so a bibliography that only cites AAMAS is as suspicious as one that ignores it.
- Treat conference proceedings and journals as archival unless the current rules say otherwise.
- Cite arXiv and workshop versions without breaking double-blind; do not point reviewers to an identity-revealing page.
- Explain overlap with any concurrent or prior version, and do not submit duplicate archival work.
Cross-community coverage table
| Literature lane | Typical sources | What AAMAS reviewers check |
|---|---|---|
| Agents / multiagent core | AAMAS, JAAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI agent tracks | Whether the nearest multiagent method is compared or explicitly distinguished |
| Multiagent RL | NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, prior AAMAS | Whether MADDPG/QMIX/COMA-style cousins are cited even though they are not AAMAS papers |
| Game theory / mechanism design | EC, GEB, algorithmic game-theory venues | Whether the solution concept and known impossibility results are acknowledged |
| Social choice / negotiation | AAMAS, AAAI, COMSOC, ADT | Whether standard axioms and strategyproofness usage are followed |
A bibliography citing only deep-MARL benchmarks tells a game-theory reviewer that known equilibrium or mechanism results may be getting rediscovered - a recognizable AAMAS reject pattern no amount of benchmark strength repairs. The mirror failure - only citing classical game theory while ignoring the deep-MARL wave - loses the empirical reviewer.
Positioning vignette
Imagine the paper proposes a communication protocol that improves cooperation in a mixed-motive game. Its nearest neighbors: a NeurIPS MARL paper with emergent communication but no incentive analysis, an EC paper with a cheap-talk equilibrium but no learning, and a prior AAMAS paper on the same game with a weaker coordination result. The novelty sentence should name all three: incentives where the MARL line had none, learning where the game-theory line stayed static, and stronger coordination than the direct AAMAS predecessor.
Concurrent-work judgment calls
- Independently concurrent arXiv work: cite neutrally, state the technical difference, and avoid priority claims reviewers cannot verify.
- Your own workshop version: usually non-archival and citable, but verify against the current CFP and phrase the citation so double-blind survives.
- When unsure about a venue's archival status, declare the overlap in the submission form rather than gambling on a chair's reading.
Output format
[Eligibility] clear / needs declaration / risky
[Closest literatures] <agents / MARL / game-theory / social-choice>
[Nearest 3 works] <work -> distinction>
[Archival-overlap risk] <none / issues>
[Novelty sentence] <AAMAS-ready interaction contrast>
Version History
- 9f86f09 Current 2026-07-19 14:15
