Multi Agent Contest 2009 Call

[Tristan Behrens]

=================== Call for Submissions =====================

            Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2009

              http://www.multiagentcontest.org

         Tristan Behrens, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix
                Michael Köster, Peter Novak

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* Aims and Scope:

This competition is an attempt to stimulate research in the area
of multi-agent system development and programming by
   1- identifying key problems and
   2- collecting suitable benchmarks
that can serve as milestones for testing multi-agent programming
languages, platforms and tools.


* Short scenario description:

It consists of applying (or developing from scratch) a multi-agent
system to solve a cooperative task in a highly dynamic environment.
The environment of the multi-agent system is a grid-like world in
which animals (e.g., cows) are moving around collectively in one or
more groups showing swarm like behaviour. There are two corrals
each belongs to one of the 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 has a higher
number of cows collected in its corral. The scenario description
of the scenario will be available soon on the contest webpage.


* Participation requirements:

The participation in this contest consists of two parts:
1- Submission of the description of analysis, design and
implementation of a multi-agent system for the above application.
The maximum length is 5 pages according to the LNCS format.
2- Participation in the contest tournament by means of an
(executable) implementation of a multi-agent system.
Further technical details on how to participate in this contest
can be found on the contest webpage

      http://www.multiagentcontest.org/


* How To Submit:

Please announce your intention to attend the contest by
subscribing to the mailing list **now**.

Participants and all interested colleagues are invited to subscribe to
the mailing list

      agentcontest2009 [at] in.tu-clausthal.de

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.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to

      agentcontest2009-subscribe [at] in.tu-clausthal.de

with the subject "subscribe". The confirmation request
and welcome message will be sent to you shortly afterwards. Please
follow the instructions in the automatic mailing list replies.

Please submit a 5 page description of your solution to Mehdi Dastani 
using the
email address

      mehdi [at] cs.uu.nl


* Important Dates:

Publication of the scenario:	  March 30, 2009
Submission of the description:    April 20, 2009
Notification:                     April 27, 2009
Camera-Ready of the description:  May 4, 2009
Publication of protocol/packages: May 11, 2009
Testing phase:                    July 13, 2009
Competition:                      July 20, 2009
Winner announcement:              July 27, 2009