The Multi-Agent Programming Contest 2018 Agents Teaming Up in an Urban Environment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahlbrecht, Tobias (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dix, Jürgen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Fiekas, Niklas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; 11957
• Subjects: Artificial intelligence.; Computer communication systems.; Special purpose computers.; Application software.; Coding theory.; Information theory.; Software engineering.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Communication Networks.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Coding and Information Theory.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.
• Physical Description: VII, 145 p. 31 illus., 21 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030379599
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37959-9

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.