The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2022


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This book constitutes the 16th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2022. It gives an overview of the competition, describes the current scenario. The first paper describes the contest in general and this edition in particular, focusing on the organizers’ observations. The following papers are written by the participants of the contest, describing their team of agents and its performance in more detail.




Engineering Multi-Agent Systems


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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021, which was held during May 3-4, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in London, UK, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20 full papers and 1 short paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions. The contributions deal with agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.







The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2021


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This book constitutes the 15th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2020. It gives an overview of the competition, describes the current scenario. Furthermore, it summarises this year's participants and their approaches and analyses some of the matches played and the contest as a whole. In the second part, each team contributed a paper describing their approach and experiences with creating a team of agents to participate in the contest.




Engineering Multi-Agent Systems


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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2020, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 10 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 16 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics in the domains of agent-oriented software engineering, programming multi-agent systems, declarative agent languages and technologies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.




Multi-Agent-Based Simulation II


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This volume presents extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the Third International Workshop on Multi-Agent Based Simulation (MABS 2002), a workshop federated with the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002), which was held in Bologna, Italy, in July, 2002. This workshop was the third in the MABS series. The earlier two were - ganized as workshops of the two most recent ICMAS conferences (ICMAS 1998, Paris, France and ICMAS 2000, Boston, USA). Revised versions of the papers presented at these workshops were published as volumes 1534 and 1979 in the Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence series. One aim of the workshop was to develop stronger links between those wo- ing in the social sciences and those involved with multi-agent systems. We are pleased to note that many important conferences in various disciplines such as geography, economics, ecology, sociology, and physics have hosted workshops on MABS-related topics and that many respected journals publish papers that - clude elements of MABS. But although MABS is gradually acquiring legitimacy in many disciplinary ?elds, much remains to be done to clarify the potential use of MABS in these disciplines. Researchers from these disciplines have di?erent points of view on issues such as time-frame, space, geographical scales, or- nizational levels, etc. Moreover, the interest in MABS goes beyond the scienti?c community, as MABS models have been developed and used interactively with other communities as well.




Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Trust-worthiness. The PAAMS Collection


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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops co-located with the 18th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2020, held in L’Aquila, Italy, in October 2020. The total of 21 full and 13 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers in this volume stem from the following meetings: Workshop on Agent-Based Artificial Markets Computational Economics (ABAM); Workshop on Agents and Edge-AI (AgEdAI); Workshop on Character Computing (C2); Workshop on MAS for Complex Networks and Social Computation (CNSC); Workshop on Decision Support, Recommendation, and Persuasion in Artificial Intelligence (DeRePAI); Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (MAS&S); Workshop on Multi-agent based Applications for Energy Markets, Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems (MASGES); Workshop on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents (SCIA).




On Writing


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Programming Challenges


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There are many distinct pleasures associated with computer programming. Craftsmanship has its quiet rewards, the satisfaction that comes from building a useful object and making it work. Excitement arrives with the flash of insight that cracks a previously intractable problem. The spiritual quest for elegance can turn the hacker into an artist. There are pleasures in parsimony, in squeezing the last drop of performance out of clever algorithms and tight coding. The games, puzzles, and challenges of problems from international programming competitions are a great way to experience these pleasures while improving your algorithmic and coding skills. This book contains over 100 problems that have appeared in previous programming contests, along with discussions of the theory and ideas necessary to attack them. Instant online grading for all of these problems is available from two WWW robot judging sites. Combining this book with a judge gives an exciting new way to challenge and improve your programming skills. This book can be used for self-study, for teaching innovative courses in algorithms and programming, and in training for international competition. The problems in this book have been selected from over 1,000 programming problems at the Universidad de Valladolid online judge. The judge has ruled on well over one million submissions from 27,000 registered users around the world to date. We have taken only the best of the best, the most fun, exciting, and interesting problems available.




Innovations in Multi-Agent Systems and Application – 1


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This book provides an overview of multi-agent systems and several applications that have been developed for real-world problems. Multi-agent systems is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexities arising from their interactions. Multi-agent systems allow the subproblems of a constraint satisfaction problem to be subcontracted to different problem solving agents with their own interest and goals. This increases the speed, creates parallelism and reduces the risk of system collapse on a single point of failure. Different multi-agent architectures, that are tailor-made for a specific application are possible. They are able to synergistically combine the various computational intelligent techniques for attaining a superior performance. This gives an opportunity for bringing the advantages of various techniques into a single framework. It also provides the freedom to model the behavior of the system to be as competitive or coordinating, each having its own advantages and disadvantages.