MAPC 2017 Call for Participation

[Tobias Ahlbrecht]

======== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ========

    MAPC 2017
    Multi-Agent Programming Contest
    https://multiagentcontest.org/2017/

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1. 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,
2. collecting suitable benchmarks, and
3. 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.


2. HISTORY

The Multi-Agent Programming Contest was initiated in 2005 and since
then passed through four distinct phases.
2005: 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.
2006 - 2007: the "goldminers"-scenario, where  we provided the environment
by means of an online-architecture and automatically determined the winner.
2008 - 2010: the "cows and cowboys"-scenario, again on the
online-architecture, but with a slightly changed objective.
2011 - 2014: the "agents on Mars"-scenario, where agents had to solve a
different more complex problem.


3. THE FIFTH PHASE: "AGENTS IN THE CITY"

After the first instance in 2016, we present
an iteration on the fifth MAPC scenario: "Agents in the city".
The goal is to implement a team of cooperating agents with different roles
in order to complete certain jobs on realistic street graphs. The challenge
of the scenario is
its ever increasing complexity: agents have to reason about the quality of
jobs and how to complete them. This time around, we focus even more on
enforcing cooperation among agents.


4. ENROLLING AND DOWNLOAD

We would like to invite potential participants to join the MAPC mailing
list.

        https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/agentcontest

All the important details and announcements will be sent and discussed via
this list. And please do not hesitate to say hello on the list.

You can download the software package here:

        https://multiagentcontest.org/2017/#downloads

or directly from GitHub:

        https://github.com/agentcontest/massim/releases


5. 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 a short team description. Thus registering to the contest
officially.
3. Participation in all assigned matches in the final tournament.
4. Submitting the source-code of your application right after the
tournament.
5. Submission of a paper after the tournament.


6. ROUGH TIMELINE

Until 31st of July: individual testing phase.

1st - 8th of August: registration phase.

9th - 21st of August: connection testing. You will have the chance to test
the connection to our servers.

4th of September: qualification phase. You have to prove
that your agents' connections to our servers are stable and reliable.

Week of 18th of September: tournament.

After tournament: publications.


7. PUBLICATIONS

After the tournament we invite each participant to submit a paper
about their agent team. The papers of which the quality has been assured
will be regularly published. The publication outlet will be announced
as soon as possible.


8. PRIZE

The winner of the contest will be awarded with a voucher for
500 EUR worth in books, thankfully provided by Springer Verlag.
Requirements are the submission of a paper and the source codes
of the agents.


9. PEOPLE

Organizers:
  Tobias Ahlbrecht(Clausthal University of Technology)
  Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology)
  Niklas Fiekas (Clausthal University of Technology)

Steering Committee:
  Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University)
  Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology)
  Jomi Hübner (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
  Peter Novak (Delft University of Technology)
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