The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018

This book constitutes the 13th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2018, and presents its participants.

The 2018 scenario and all its changes from previous competitions are described in the first contribution, together with a brief description and analysis of the five participating teams and a closer look at the matches. It is followed by a contribution from each team, introducing their methods and tools used to create their agent team and analyzing their performance and the contest.

Inhalt
The Contest.- The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 - A third time in the city.- The Teams.- task-oriented architecture with priority queue for BDI agents applied to the Multi Agent Programming Contest scenario.- Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 - The Jason-DTU Team.- SMART-JaCaMo: an Organisation-Based Team for the Multi-Agent Programming Contest.- Distributed Decision-Making based on Shared Knowledge in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest.- ROS Hybrid Behaviour Planner: Behaviour Hierarchies and Self-Organisation in the Multi-Agent Programming Contest.