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Intelligent Jason Agents in Virtual Soccer Simulations

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2013)

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The game of virtual soccer requires its players to act as a coherent team, while operating in a highly dynamic environment, with incomplete and unreliable information. As such, the game is often used to test, demonstrate and validate the concepts of multi-agent theory in practice. This paper describes the process of integrating agent-oriented programming language AgentSpeak and its interpreter Jason into SimSpark, the official RoboCup soccer simulator. The end-goal is to design a framework that will enable its users to think about and program soccer playing agents at a more abstract level, in terms of beliefs, goals and plans, allowing for an easier implementation of advanced multi-agent concepts.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

    Dejan Mitrović & Mirjana Ivanović

  2. Institute of Informatics, Humboldt University, Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489, Berlin, Germany

    Hans-Dieter Burkhard

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Mitrović, D., Ivanović, M., Burkhard, HD. (2013). Intelligent Jason Agents in Virtual Soccer Simulations. In: Klusch, M., Thimm, M., Paprzycki, M. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8076. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40776-5_28

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