Workshop Programme

20 May 2025

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Centre

Room: Marquette A, 5th Floor

For Presenters: Talks are structured into 4 sessions. At the latest 10 minutes before the session in which your talk is scheduled, please make sure to introduce yourself to the session chair and upload your slides to the laptop in the room (would be nice if you could bring a USB stick for that). Paper talks are all in-person and consist of a 23-minute presentation and a 5-minute Q&A session.

Webinar: To enhance accessibility, C-MAS will be live-streamed as a webinar. Please register using the following link to join the webinar and receive a confirmation email with access details: [registration link]. Note that due to potential connectivity issues, we cannot guarantee high-quality streaming, and the webinar may not work on the day.

Morning Sessions

Note: All times in the schedule are in Detroit time.

08:45 – Welcome

Session 1: Empowering Citizens in Critical Services [Chair: Sebastian Stein]

09:00 – Talk 1: Seoyeong Park and Munindar P. Singh - MEAL: Model of Empathy Augmented Logistics for Food Security [DOI]
09:30 – Talk 2: David Gordon, Panayiotis Petousis, Susanne Nicholas and Alex Bui - AKIBoards: A Structure-Following Multiagent System for Predicting Acute Kidney Injury [DOI]

10:00 – Coffee Break

Session 2: Modelling Human Needs in Shared Environments [Chair: Mayesha Tasnim]

10:45 – Talk 3: Daniel Collins, Conor Houghton and Nirav Ajmeri - EnvCraft: A Modular Environment Design Framework for Investigating Prosocial Incentives [DOI]
11:15 – Talk 4: Behrad Koohy, Enrico Gerding and Sebastian Stein - Adaptive Microtolling in Competitive Online Congestion Games via Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
11:45 – Talk 5: Zhixun Chen, Zijing Shi, Yaodong Yang, Meng Fang and Yali Du - Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Dynamic Macroeconomic Modeling Using Large Language Models

12:15 – Discussion Session: The Future of C-MAS: Moving Towards Civic MAS for Sustainable AI Services (open floor for comments, suggestions, and feedback).

12:30 – Lunch Break

Afternoon Sessions

14:00 – Keynote Address by Dr. Fei Fang on Tackling Societal Challenges with Multi-Agent Systems: Bridging Theory and Practice

Session 3: Multiagent Learning for Public Decision-Making [Chair: Jessica Woodgate]

14:45 – Talk 6: Alexandre S. Pires and Fernando P. Santos - Indirect Reciprocity in Hybrid Human-AI Populations [DOI]
15:15 – Talk 7: Divya Sundaresan, Danushka Edirimanna, Eleni Bardaka, Samitha Samaranayake and Munindar P. Singh - Combining Human-Centric Modeling and System Optimization in Rural Microtransit [DOI]

15:45 – Coffee Break

Session 4: Ethics, Fairness, and Normative Reasoning [Chair: Behrad Koohy]

16:30 – Talk 8: Jessica Woodgate and Nirav Ajmeri - Combining Normative Ethics Principles to Learn Prosocial Behaviour [DOI]
17:00 – Talk 9: Richard Willis, Yali Du, Joel Leibo and Michael Luck - Quantifying the Self-Interest Level of Markov Social Dilemmas
17:30 – Talk 10: Mayesha Tasnim, Youri Weesie, Sennay Ghebreab and Max Baak - Citizen Strategies in School Choice: How Strategic Agents Influence Rank-Minimizing Matchings [DOI]