ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award 2005

Quote from the award description:

``ACM SIGART, in collaboration with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, has instituted an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award is intended to recognize researchers whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGART from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences.

The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Milind Tambe of the University of Southern California is the recipient of the 2005 award. Dr. Tambe has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Tambe made seminal contributions to the theory, applications, and software infrastructure in the area of teamwork, which has become a flourishing research area in multi agent systems. In addition to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Tambe has served the autonomous agents research community in a variety of ways, most recently as the General co-chair of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2004).

About the award

Candidates for the SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award are selected through an open nomination process. In order to provide a focus on current research, only contributions in the past five years were considered in the evaluation. Evaluation criteria included publication record, evidence that research contributions have been applied in autonomous agent systems, and evidence that research contributions are cited by other researchers and have served as an inspiration for other research. It is expected that at least some of the candidate's research should have been published at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents."