The Multi-Agent Programming Contest
News
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MAPC 2016 Publication:
The results of MAPC 2016 will be published as a special issue of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE). Details will be announced on the mailing list shortly.
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MAPC 2016 Rematches:
Some friendly rematches will take place this week!
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MAPC 2016 Results:
The matches are over! We congratulate the team PUCRS on winning this year’s contest with 33 points, team Flisvos 2016 being a very close runnerup with only 3 points less.
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MAPC 2016 Schedule:
We have just released MASSim 1.3.2 including a few last minute fixes
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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
- 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.
History
2016: Agents in the City
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014: Agents on Mars
2008, 2009, 2010: Cow Herding Scenario
2006, 2007: Goldminers Scenario
2005: CLIMA VI Contest
