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The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 - A Third Time in the City

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The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 (MAPC 2018)

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Abstract

We present the thirteenth edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, a community-serving competition that attracts participants from all over the world. Participants have to design a program that controls entities in a specifically designed scenario. This challenge is interesting in itself and also well-suited to be used in educational environments. Usage of multi-agent technology is encouraged and allows for comparison of different multi-agent systems and also conventional approaches. This time, five teams competed using strictly agent-based as well as traditional programming approaches.

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  • 23 February 2020

    In the original version of chapter 1 the authors stated that TUBDAI’s opponents did not “think of” TUBDAI’s strategy, which they now think was a poor choice of words to relay the message. The text has now been updated to clarify that some teams were aware of this strategy but did not expect it to be used.

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    https://multiagentcontest.org.

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    http://ipc.icaps-conference.org/.

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    http://www.robocup-logistics.org/sim-comp.

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    http://sscaitournament.com/.

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    https://www.battlecode.org.

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    The complete documentation can be found at https://github.com/agentcontest/massim/tree/858fb9f75ae5d4036cc6a9ffe439f4052d0414ff/docs.

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    To be in the same location in this scenario is defined as sharing the same coordinates up to the x-th digit after the decimal place.

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    Coincidentally, all games were played in the biggest cities of the contestants’ home countries.

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    The replay can be viewed at https://multiagentcontest.org/2018/replays/?2018-09-24-14-05-06-Contest-2018-2of3.

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Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Fiekas, N. (2019). The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 - A Third Time in the City. In: Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Fiekas, N. (eds) The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018. MAPC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11957. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37959-9_1

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