TheMulti-Agent Programming Contest is an annual competition in agentbased artificial intelligence. The year 2011 marked the beginning of a new phase with the introduction of the Agents-on-Mars-scenario. The focus was shifted towards heterogeneous multi-agent systems with both competitive and cooperative agent interaction. On top of that, new means for evaluating the performance of individual ag...

To set the stage, the comprehensive big picture of simulation is evoked and references to get detailed information are given. As part of the powerful synergy of software agents and simulation, contribution of software agents to simulation is outlined and proper references are given. The contribution of agents to simulation leads to agent simulation, agent-supported simulation, and agentmonitore...

Artificial intelligence traditionally draws inspiration from biological systems, in order to achieve a similar degree of intelligence in artificial systems. More recently, ideas from computational intelligence are being applied successfully in achieving a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the emergence of group-level patterns in biological and sociological systems. In this paper...

A definition of intelligence is given in terms of performance that can be quantitatively measured. In this study, we have presented a conceptual model of Intelligent Agent System for Automatic Vehicle Checking Agent (VCA). To achieve this goal, we have introduced several kinds of agents that exhibit intelligent features. These are the Management agent, internal agent, External Agent, Watcher ag...

In the past, games development has been driven by the need to achieve more realistic graphics. This has resulted in a situation today with games set in visually stunning, and almost photo realistic worlds being the norm. As game developers seek something new to make their games stand out from the rest, artificial intelligence is playing a far more important role in game design than before. The ...

In a dynamic multi agent environment an automated intelligent agent is often faced with the possibility that other agents may instigate events that hinder or help the achievement of its own goals To act intelligently in such an environment an automated agent needs an event tracking capability to continually monitor the occurrence of such events and the temporal relationships among them This cap...