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Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010 |
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The preparations for the next Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010 are almost completed. If you are interested please state your intent to participate by subscribing to the mailing list now. Below you can find the important dates:
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This competition is an attempt to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming by
- identifying key problems,
- collecting suitable benchmarks, and
- gathering test cases which require and enforce coordinated action
that can serve as milestones for testing multi-agent programming languages, platforms and tools. We also expect that participating at the contest helps to debug existing systems and to identify their weak and strong aspects.
The performance of a particular system will be determined in a series of games where the systems compete against each other. While winning the competition is not the main point, we hope it will shed light on the applicability of certain frameworks to particular domains. |
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Short scenario description |
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The contest scenario consists of developing a multi-agent system to solve a cooperative task in a dynamic environment. The environment is a grid-like world in which virtual cows are moving around collectively in one or more herds exhibiting a swarm-like behavior. There are two corrals, each belongs to one of the two agent teams. The teams of agents compete to control the behavior of animals and lead them to their own corral. The winning agent team is the one that scores highest. A detailed scenario description of the scenario will be available in time. |
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Protocol description & support package |
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We are happy to announce that the MASSim-software-package has been released! You can access it here:
If you have any problems please contact us immediately. Although we tried hard on making the software package as bug-free as possible we cannot be absolutely sure and therefore would be grateful if you would report us any bugs.
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Participation requirements |
The participation in this contest consists of these parts:
1. Declaring the intent to participate by registering to the mailing list.
2. Submission of the description of analysis, design and implementation of a multi-agent system for the above application. Thus registering to the contest officially.
3. Participation in the contest tournament by taking part on the final tournament.
4. Submitting the source-code of your application right after the tournament. |
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Participants and all interested colleagues are invited to subscribe to the agentcontest2010 [at] in.tu-clausthal.de mailing list.
All the important details and announcements including scenario and communication protocol specifications as well as software release announcements and bug reports will be announced and discussed via this list.
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