The USP Farmers herding team

This paper describes the development steps and core ideas used by the USP Farmers herding team, that has participated in the 2010 edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC 2010). This is the third year that the competitors must design a team of herding agents, whose global goal is to lead...

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Published in:Annals of mathematics and artificial intelligence Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 369 - 383
Main Authors: Gouveia, Gustavo Pacianotto, Pereira, Ricardo Hahn, Sichman, Jaime Simão
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2011
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Complex Systems
Computer Science
Coordination
Mathematics
Multiagent systems
Organizational aspects
68N17
68T42
AgentSpeak
68T35
Multi-agent programming
Organisation specification
Jason
BDI agents
Multi-agent systems
ISSN:1012-2443, 1573-7470
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Summary:This paper describes the development steps and core ideas used by the USP Farmers herding team, that has participated in the 2010 edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest (MAPC 2010). This is the third year that the competitors must design a team of herding agents, whose global goal is to lead a maximum number of cows to their own corral. As this is a very complex task and requires coordination of the team, we have developed the individual agents using the Jason (Bordini et al. 2007 ) interpreter for AgentSpeak(L) (Rao 1996 ). Moreover, the coordination strategy was defined using the OISE  +   (Hübner et al. 2002 , 2007 ) organizational model. We have also used the idea of artifact (Ricci et al. 2007 ) to develop global services, available to all the agents. Moreover, it is clear that for this contest some pure procedural processing should be developed in a lower abstraction level (Hübner et al. 2008 ); therefore some calculation and pre-defined global decisions were implemented by Java classes.
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ISSN:1012-2443
1573-7470
DOI:10.1007/s10472-011-9238-x