MASO 2026: The 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent and Agentic Systems in Organizations Kumamoto, Japan, December 14-17, 2026

The rapid rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI is transforming autonomous systems from isolated agents into interconnected, highly specialized networks of collaborative agents. Modern organizations are evolving into hybrid ecosystems where human workers collaborate alongside heterogeneous agents powered by LLMs, symbolic reasoning, and external integrations.

While the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) community brings decades of expertise in distributed decision-making and coordination, the operational deployment of agentic AI in organizations introduces novel socio-technical challenges. MASO 2026 aims to bridge the theoretical, operational, and governance gaps in deploying multi-agent and agentic systems within both private enterprise and public sector organizations.

We bring together researchers and practitioners across MAS, Agentic AI, Information Systems, Organizational Theory, Human-AI Collaboration, and Ethics to shape the future of AI.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: October 10th , 2026

Author notification: November 12th, 2026

Camera Ready Submissions: November 26th, 2026

Workshop Date: December 14th, 2026

NOTE: All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.

• Full Research Papers: Original, unpublished research contributions presenting thorough theoretical or empirical results (maximum 16 pages excluded references)
• Short Papers: Work-in-progress, novel concepts, or preliminary experimental evaluations. (maximum 8 pages excluded references)

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Papers must be fully anonymised prior to submission by removing all author names, affiliations, and identifying references. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and for PRIMA 2026.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maso2026

Proceedings: Publisher and indexing details are currently under negotiation and will be updated as soon as possible.

List of Topics

The workshop welcomes original theoretical, methodological, empirical, and design-oriented contributions on multi-agent and agentic systems in organizational settings. Interdisciplinary contributions are welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Agent Architectures and Orchestration

• Centralized, decentralized, and hybrid architectures
• Orchestration of agents across organizational processes
• Agent composition, workflow management, task decomposition, and delegation
• Agent role, specialization, lifecycle, state, and resource management

Interoperability and Enterprise Integration of Agents

• Agent-to-agent and agent-to-system communication
• Communication protocols, standards, and semantic interoperability
• Integration with enterprise platforms, APIs, databases, and tools
• Authentication, authorization, access control, and identity management

Multi-Agent Coordination and Distributed Decision-Making in Organizations

• Distributed planning, problem-solving, and decision-making
• Task allocation, scheduling, and resource allocation
• Negotiation, consensus, coalition formation, and conflict resolution
• Coordination under uncertainty, incentive mechanisms, and emergent organizational behavior

Human–Agent Collaboration in Organizational Settings

• Delegation, team adaptation, and socio-technical dynamics
• Human–agent teams and hybrid intelligence
• Human-in-the-loop, human-on-the-loop, and mixed-initiative workflows
• Allocation of roles, tasks, decision rights, and responsibilities between humans and agents

Organizational Learning, Agent Adaptation, Memory, and Knowledge Management

• Continual, collaborative learning
• Agent adaptation, personalization, and context awareness
• Individual, shared, episodic, and organizational memory
• Organizational knowledge creation, transfer, retention, retrieval, and reuse
• Knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented systems, and cross-agent learning

Governance, Accountability, and Compliance of Agents

• Governance models for agentic and multi-agent ecosystems in organizations
• Allocation of responsibility, accountability, authority, and liability
• Regulatory compliance, standards alignment

Trust, Safety, Security, Privacy, and Reliability of Agentic Systems in Organizations

• Robustness, resilience, transparency, explainability, and uncertainty awareness
• Privacy-preserving agent interaction and organizational data protection
• Detection and mitigation of cascading, and systemic failures

Evaluation, Benchmarking

• Evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, simulations, and organizational testbeds
• Metrics for agent autonomy, coordination, alignment, reliability, and safety
• Evaluation of human–agent and multi-agent team performance
• Organizational productivity, quality, cost

Organizational Design and Socio-Technical Transformation

• Effects of agentic systems on organizational structures
• Organizational readiness, adoption, and change management
• Institutional implications and the evolving role of human expertise

Applications and Deployment of Agentic Systems in Organizations

• Agentic systems in public-, private-, and nonprofit-sector organizations
• Applications in government, healthcare, education, finance, and manufacturing
• Organizational case studies, field experiments, and deployment experiences
• Adoption barriers, scaling challenges, implementation practices, and lessons learned

Committees

Program Committee

• Reyhan Aydogan, Ozyegin University, Turkey
• Adeel Ahmad, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, France
• Joaquin Delgado, Encevo group, Luxembourg
• Stefano Tedeschi, Università della Valle d’Aosta, Italy
• Alaa Daoud, Université Polytechnique de Hauts de France, France
• Afshin Khadangi, University of Luxembourg
• Diderot Cidjeu, Sahel Lab, Burkina Faso
• Horia Modran, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
• Alexandre Lombard, UTBM, France
• Asma Arab, UTBM, France
• Justin Moskolai, University of Douala, Cameroon
• Avleen Malhi, University of Warwick, UK
• Yanming Liu, Zhejiang University, China
• Damien Sambo, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France
• Sukriti Bhattacharya, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
• Syrine Haddad, UTBM, France
• Jean Louis Fendji, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
• Etienne Ndamalabin, INRIA, France
• Amir Sartipi, University of Luxembourg
• Rachele Carli, Umea University
• Eskandar Kouicem, Snowflake, France
• Ephraim Sinyabe, ENSAI, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
• Shiva Kumar Bhuram, Dorman Products, United States
• Hedi Tebourbi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Afef Hfaiedh, National Engineering School of Tunis, University Of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
• Tasnim Assali, National School of Computer Sciences, Manouba University, Tunisia
• Hasan Alkhder, Sakarya University, Türkiye
• Muhsen Almustafa, Independent Researcher
• Munzir Alradi, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia
• Ayoub Alzahim, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia
• Marco Angelini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Mickael Bettinelli, LISTIC, University of Savoie Mont Blanc, France
• Berk Buzcu, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Davide Calvaresi, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Rémy Chaput, No affiliation
• Giovanni Ciatto, University of Bologna, Italy
• Andrei Coman, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Victor Hugo Contreras Ordoñez, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Valerio Crocetti, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Lora Fanda, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Kary Främling, Umeå University, Sweden
• Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
• Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
• Victor Gimenez-Abalos, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Rafik Hadfi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Brent Harrison, University of Kentucky, USA
• Takayuki Ito, Kyoto University, Japan
• Simone Lenti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, University of Alcalá, Spain
• Matteo Magnini, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Mattia Matteini, University of Bologna, Italy
• Sara Montese, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Amro Najjar, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
• Elia Pacioni, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Alessandro Palma, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Matteo Pasquino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
• Thiago Raulino Dal Pont, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
• Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera, University of León, Spain
• Federico Sabbatini, University of Urbino, Italy
• Paolo Sernani, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
• Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Simona Tiribelli, University of Macerata, Italy
• Cédric Travelletti, HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Switzerland
• Mario Trerotola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Robert Wortham, University of Bath, UK
• Liuwen Yu, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
• Hui Zhao, Tongji University, China

Organizing Committee

• Igor Tchappi — SnT, University of Luxembourg
• Yazan Mualla — UTBM, France
• Rachele Carli, Umea University
• Amro Najjar — Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg
• Leon van der Torre — University of Luxembourg

Invited Speakers - Keynote Speakers

• Raian Ali, Bin Khalifa University and UNESCO Chair
• Sergio Potenciano Menci, Head and Project Manager at Encevo group SA, Luxembourg
• Rachele Carli, Umea University

Venue

The conference will be held in Kumamoto, Japan on December 14, 2026.

Contact

Website of the workshop: https://maso.uno/

All questions about submissions should be emailed to rachele.carli@umu.se or igor.tchappi@uni.lu