The 2017 Contest

Wrap-up

Publication

Each team is invited to submit a team description paper. All papers will be published in a Special Issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.

Your paper should consist of approx. 20 pages following the journal’s instructions. The paper deadline is 20th December 2017.

Statistics

This archive contains for each simulation

• a chart comparing the teams’ money in each step,
• two charts depicting each team’s actions,
• a table comparing the completion times for each mission,
• a table listing how many jobs where completed by which team,
• another such table but for auctions,

and one table listing the action failure codes and their overall frequencies for all teams.

Questionnaire

Please submit the answers to this questionnaire to the organizers until 28th November 2017 and append both questions and answers to your team paper.

Tournament

Results

Replays

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

* Sim 1 of lampe vs. TUBDAI had to be repeated because of a bug in the platform where multiple agents got stuck in the middle of the map: 17 387 : 51 300.

Thursday

Schedule

The tournament will take place September 18th to 21st. All times are CEST.

• ac1: agentcontest1.in.tu-clausthal.de
• ac2: agentcontest2.in.tu-clausthal.de
• Matches may start early if both teams and server available
• Matches may start late, if preceding match is taking longer (unlikely)

Registration

The registration phase has been completed! The following teams have registered:

Registration Template

Important dates

The Scenario: Agents in the City

Our scenario consists of two teams of agents moving through the streets of a realistic city. Agents can earn money by completing tasks. Full specification.

Downloads

Problems with the software? Just write to the mailing list. No problems? Register yourself to the mailing list anyway and write us a short hello message.

The server

Unpack the software package and start the contest server for development and testing. In a shell:

cd server
java -jar server-2017-0.6-jar-with-dependencies.jar \
  --monitor 8000  # with webmonitor on port 8000

Detailed documentation.

Your client

The package contains dummy agents for several platforms. You can use these as starting points:

• Jason/Eismassim (Java & AgentSpeak)
• Java
• Pyson (Python & AgentSpeak)

There have also always been teams that implemented the communication protocol themselves.

Mailing List

Participants and all interested colleagues are invited to subscribe to our mailing list:

agentcontest@googlegroups.com

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.

The mailing list archive is publically available.

Changelog

We have listed some major changes in case you are coming from the 2016 version.

Publications

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

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.