nicholas-jennings.txt
2026
Nicholas R. Jennings
Multi-agent systems
Received the 2026 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence for decades of work on multi-agent systems: how autonomous software agents coordinate with each other and team up with people. He had won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1999.
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Key work
IJCAI-26 Awards announcement (opens in new tab)
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2026
Recognition
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2026 (opens in new tab)
Citation: “seminal contributions to the field of multi-agent systems, including algorithms for multi-agent coordination and the principles of human-agent teamwork, and for his pioneering applications of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems”