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The Multi-Agent Programming Contest was initiated in 2005 and since then it has passed through three distinct phases. The first phase began in 2005 with the "food-gatherers"-scenario, where a pre-specified multi-agent system had to be implemented. These MASs were later examined in order to determine the winner. From 2006 - 2007 we ran the "goldminers"-scenario. This time we provided the environment by means of an online-architecture, and automatically determined the winner. Then from 2008 - 2010 we ran the "cows and cowboys"-scenario. Again on the same online-architecture, but this time with a slightly changed objective. |
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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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Aims & Scope