Blue Sky Ideas Award

The focus of the Blue Sky Ideas Track is on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, new research opportunities, and controversial debate.

The winner of the Blue Sky Ideas Award is:

Diverse Auto-Curriculum is Critical for Successful Real-World Multiagent Learning Systems
Yaodong Yang, Jun Luo, Ying Wen, Oliver Slumbers, Daniel Graves, Haitham Bou Ammar, Jun Wang and Matthew E. Taylor

Two further papers have been recognised with a Special Mention:

Environment Shift Games: Are Multiple Agents the Solution, and not the Problem, to Non-Stationarity?
Alexander Mey and Frans A. Oliehoek

Responsibility Research for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Vahid Yazdanpanah, Enrico H. Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Mehdi Dastani, Catholijn M. Jonker and Timothy J. Norman

The Blue Sky Ideas track is generously supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).