EDAI 2025: Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI Workshop 2025 Check the ECAI website for the venue Bologna, Italy, October 25-26, 2025

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI (EDAI 2025) at ECAI 2025

Website: https://edai-workshop.github.io/2025/

Where: The third EDAI workshop will be held in person at ECAI 2025, in Bologna, Italy.

Social, cooperative and hybrid AI are increasingly gaining attention. Researchers imagine ecosystems wherein (artificial) intelligent agents and humans interact and make decisions, addressing – either individually or collectively – a range of heterogeneous problems. To handle the complex dynamics inherent to such systems, and to ensure that results are globally beneficial, research into AI design and analysis methods is critical. This workshop aims to connect the traditions of single- and multi-agent AI research (reasoning, learning, ...) to the areas of (eco-)evolutionary dynamics, typically investigated in the context of complex systems. We hope to foster collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas among these communities to advance the areas of social, cooperative and hybrid AI.

Topics

The workshop invites high-quality abstracts and papers covering all aspects at the intersection of evolutionary dynamics with social, cooperative and hybrid AI. The following list is a non-exhaustive selection of topics:

• Behavioral evolution and learning
• Belief evolution and learning
• Learning in evolving environments
• Evolution, cognition, and reasoning
• Learning to learn from whom
• Complex dynamics in learning ecosystems
• Delegation and principal-agent problem in AI
• Evolution and communication
• Behavioral experiments on social and cooperative AI
• Norm dynamics in hybrid ecosystems
• Trust in evolving AI eco-systems
• Decision-making and emotions
• Dynamics in AI development ecosystems
• Networks in learning and evolution
• Evolution of cooperation with and through AI

Important Dates

Submissions deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET

Notification of acceptance: 17 August 2025

Camera-ready copies: 20 September 2025 

Workshop: 25 or 26 October 2025 (TBA)

Submission details

• Please use the ECAI formatting rules for your submission. You can find the LaTeX files here.
• This workshop does not have proceedings. However, we are currently in discussions with a publisher to organize a special journal issue featuring extended versions of selected papers from this workshop. All authors of accepted submissions will be invited to contribute to this special issue.

We will accept the following submission types:

Full Submissions (max. 7 pages not including references):

• Original full papers: this must be unpublished work
• Transfers from ECAI: papers submitted to ECAI which have not been accepted. Please attach the PDF of your submission and the reviews you received.
• Papers accepted in ECAI: if your paper has been accepted in ECAI, we welcome you to also present it at our workshop. Please attach proof of acceptance and the reviews you have received together with your article.

Work in progress (max. 5 pages not including references):

• Preliminary results: this format is intended for work in progress which you would like to discuss during the workshop and receive feedback.
• Visionary outlook articles (blue-sky).

Extended Abstracts (1-2 pages not including references):

• Extended abstract for articles already published in a journal in the last two years.
• PhD/Early career researchers Highlights: this format is intended for PhD students and early post-doctoral researchers to present ideas for discussion.

In function of the number of submissions, you might be selected for a short or long talk or a poster presentation.

Organising Committee

• Marta C. Couto (Prosocial Dynamics Lab, University of Amsterdam, NL)
• Elias Fernández Domingos (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
• Chaitanya S. Gokhale (University of Würzburg, DE)
• The Anh Han (Teesside University, UK)
• Christian Hilbe (Interdisciplinary Transformation University, AT)
• Tom Lenaerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
• Fernando P. Santos (Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, NL)
• Paolo Turrini (University of Warwick, UK)

Program Committee

If you are interested in serving on the programme committee, please get in touch with the organizers at edai.workshop@gmail.com