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The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2022 (MAPC 2022)

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We present the 16th edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest, an annual competition designed to increase interest and further research in the area of Multi-Agent Systems development. This is the third version of the Agents Assemble scenario in which the agents inhabit a grid and must build specific shapes out of blocks scattered in the environment to win a match. Six teams from five different countries were involved in the contest. Each team has shown a solid performance. Given the current state of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest, we envision the matches in the next edition to be run in a more automated fashion. This way, decentralized agents can be enforced, and network latency avoided, while simulations can run for a longer time and with various different parameters.

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Notes

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    https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2022-bangkok-robocup/.

  2. 2.

    https://leaderboard.carla.org/.

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    https://github.com/agentcontest/massim_2022/blob/main/docs/scenario.md.

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    An additional sixth team was involved in the warm-up phase.

  5. 5.

    MMD was the only team to play a warm-up match after the contest started.

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    https://multiagentcontest.org/replays_2022c/?2022-09-22-12-58-01-1663847536037_FIT_BUT_GOALdigger#575.

  7. 7.

    The interested reader can find their answers in the questionnaire at the end of each team description paper.

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The authors would like to thank Springer for their continuous support right from the beginning and for endowing the prize of 500 Euros in Springer books.

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    Tobias Ahlbrecht, Jürgen Dix, Niklas Fiekas & Tabajara Krausburg

  2. School of Technology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Fiekas, N., Krausburg, T. (2023). The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2022. In: Ahlbrecht, T., Dix, J., Fiekas, N., Krausburg, T. (eds) The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2022. MAPC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13997. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38712-8_1

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