Multi-Agent Systems - Research & Teaching

Jørgen Villadsen

One of the main challenges in multi-agent systems is to develop tools and techniques for solving cooperative tasks in a dynamically changing environment.

Latest News

Logic and Organization-Oriented Programming (LOOP)

LEGO Robots Using the Jason System and the NXT Intelligent Brick (LEGO-Jason-NXT)

Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010

MAPC2010-Jason-DTU
MSc student Steen Vester and BEng student Mikko Berggren Ettiennes (right) watch a match.

The aim of the annual agent contest is to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent systems, to identify key problems and to collect suitable benchmarks.

The 2010 contest was organized by Tristan Behrens, Jürgen Dix, Jomi Hübner and Michael Köster.

Further information is available here: multiagentcontest.org

Results

Scores & Points

Source Code

References

Steen Vester, Niklas Skamriis Boss, Andreas Schmidt Jensen & Jørgen Villadsen: Improving Multi-Agent Systems Using Jason
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (11 p.) Springer Online First 5 March 2011

Jørgen Villadsen, Niklas Skamriis Boss, Andreas Schmidt Jensen & Steen Vester: Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2010 - The Jason-DTU Team
Computing Research Repository (4 p.) 1010.0145 2010

Andreas Schmidt Jensen: An Investigation of the Advantages of Organization-Centered Multi-Agent Systems
Computing Research Repository (15 p.) 1010.0155 2010

Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2009

MAPC2009
MSc students Niklas Skamriis Boss and Andreas Schmidt Jensen (right) in front of a small sample scenario with cows (brown dots), cowboys (red and blue dots), obstacles (green dots) and corrals with fences (red and blue areas).

The 2009 contest was organized by Tristan Behrens, Mehdi Dastani, Jürgen Dix, Michael Köster and Peter Novák.

Results

The DTU team used the Jason platform and did well in the 21 world-wide simulations during 5 days:

1. JIAC-V (Germany)                     60 points
2. Jadex@HAW (Germany)                  57 points
3. Roman-Farmers (Brazil/France/Italy)  37 points
4. Jason-DTU (Denmark)                  30 points
5. Smaperteam (Australia)               23 points
6. Micro-JIAC (Germany)                 21 points
7. AF-ABLE (Ireland)                    20 points
8. Unknown (Germany)                     1 point

Jason-DTU source code: ZIP

References

Niklas Skamriis Boss, Andreas Schmidt Jensen & Jørgen Villadsen: Building Multi-Agent Systems Using Jason
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (16 p.) Springer Online First 6 May 2010

Niklas Skamriis Boss, Andreas Schmidt Jensen & Jørgen Villadsen: Developing Artificial Herders Using Jason
Pages 193-197 in Jürgen Dix, Michael Fisher & Peter Novák (editors): Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems 2009
IfI-09-08 Clausthal University of Technology, Germany, 2009

Niklas Skamriis Boss & Andreas Schmidt Jensen: Implementing a Multi-Agent System
Special Course Report - Supervisor: Jørgen Villadsen - DTU Informatics 2009


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