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Accept a Challenge: The Multi-Agent Programming Contest

Challenging Tasks and How to Deal with Them

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2020)

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Abstract

The multi-agent programming contest (MAPC), is an annual attempt to motivate people to learn about and develop multi-agent systems to solve a complex challenge. We try to find scenarios, in which multi-agent systems can be suitably applied. These scenarios and the competition in general also often serve researchers as a testbed for their systems and frameworks. We analyze the results and solutions of the contest of 2019 and take a broader look at the agent technology that has been used to solve the competition’s challenges since its inception in 2005, and how it has been applied.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.intentionprogression.org/.

  2. 2.

    https://rescuesim.robocup.org/competitions/agent-simulation-competition/.

  3. 3.

    https://ii.tudelft.nl/nego.

  4. 4.

    https://goalapl.atlassian.net/wiki/.

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    http://jacamo.sourceforge.net/.

  6. 6.

    http://jason.sourceforge.net/wp/.

  7. 7.

    Note we use the term “agent platform” to describe the primary framework or language used to implement an agent system.

  8. 8.

    Not counting Prolog as part of many dedicated agent platforms.

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/niklasf/pyson.

  10. 10.

    https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo.

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    Tobias Ahlbrecht, Jürgen Dix, Niklas Fiekas & Tabajara Krausburg

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Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Fiekas, N., Krausburg, T. (2020). Accept a Challenge: The Multi-Agent Programming Contest. In: Baroglio, C., Hubner, J.F., Winikoff, M. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66534-0_9

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