A Preliminary Short Report on the RoboCup-98 Adaptive Teamwork Evaluation

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Abstract

Agent teamwork (collaboration) is an important and challenging topic of research. Increasingly, agent teams are used in realistic and complex multi-agent environments. In such environments, dynamic and complex changes in the environment require appropriate adaptation on the part of team-members. As RoboCup proposes to provide multi-agent researchers with a standard test-bed for evaluation of methodologies for such environments, it is only natural to use it for investigating this essential capability. During the RoboCup-98 workshop and competition a unique event took place: a comparative evaluation of the teamwork adaptation capabilities of 13 of the top competing teams. An evaluation attempt of this scale is a novel undertaking, and presents many novel challenges to researchers in the multi-agent community. This preliminary report describes the data-collection session, the experimental protocol, and some of the preliminary results from analysis of the data. Rather than proposing solutions and well understood results, it seeks to highlight key challenges in evaluation of multi-agent research in general, and in the context of RoboCup in particular
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationRoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III (LNAI 1856)} (1856)
EditorsG. Kaminka
PublisherCiteseer
Pages345-356
StatePublished - 1999

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