Koen Hindriks, Delft University

MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMSPROJECT

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Kickoff Meeting

• Introduction

• Assignments

• Organisation

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Introducing Teachers & AssistantsTeachers• Koen Hindriks• Catholijn Jonker

Student Assistants• ...• ...• ...• ...

Contact• <Project>@gmail.com. • goal@mmi.tudelft.nl.

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Project MAS - UT2004• Obligatory presence during

contact hours

• Contact hours:– Tuesday afternoon

– Thursday afternoon

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Programming and Writing Required!

• Everyone must have contributed to ALL tasks during the project

• You will be evaluated on your VISIBLE contribution– Commits to SVN of

documentation, program files

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Project Setup

Main objective:Developing a Multi-Agent System in GOAL to Control a Team of Bots in UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004

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Learning ObjectivesStudent is able to recognize key MAS notions in the

assignment and available software, and is able to use them consistently and appropriately in a MAS program and written reports.

• Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Notions: Agent, multi-agent system, mental state, beliefs, goals, actions, communication, coordination.

• Agent-Environment Interaction Notions: Action, percept

• Agent and Multi-Agent Program Notions: Action rules, modules, mas file, launch rules

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Learning Objectives• Teamwork & Project Planning skills

Student is able to work together with team members efficiently and result-driven, to solve complex problems. Student is able to make a balanced division of tasks within the team, and to reflect on the own contribution to the teamwork and the product.

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Project Setup

Individual Assignment•Explore UT environment + UT-GOAL interface•Ranking determines the group you will be part of

Group Assignment•Groups of 5 (or 6) students•Program a team of GOAL agents that control bots in UT•At end of project: competition between teams!

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Individual Assignment (1)• Assignment

– Program a GOAL agent that controls a bot that collects as many weapons, armour, and adrenaline.

– Check out project manual for details

• Deadline: Tuesday 1 may 23:59 STRICT!• Deliverables: GOAL agent and report• Evaluation: 0 to 5 stars

• Minimally 1 star is needed to participate in group assignment!• Students with same number of stars are assigned to same group

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Individual Assignment (2)What is available for you at the start…• All documents available on Blackboard.

• UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 installed at PCs on Drebbelweg (DW 0.10, DW-PC 1.160, DW-PC 1.150).

• Download latest version of GOAL from http://mmi.tudelft.nl/goal/trac.

• Download UT-GOAL interface to get started at: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/UT2004/

• Downloads available to do install of UT on own machine also at http://mmi.tudelft.nl/UT2004/

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Group Assignment: SR Combination• Combination with Schriftelijk Rapporteren (SR)

• Product reports also handed in and evaluated in course SR

• See project manual for details

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Group Assignment (Phase 1)Product report (SR)• Analysis UT environment • Agent Roles

Ontology

Process report• Test plan (frequency, kind of testing, task division)• Teamwork contract

DrProject (frontpage, minutes, roadmap)

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Group Assignment (Phase 2)• Implementation basic functionality

– Fetch flag, Collect items, Attack and defend

• Deliverables

– Implementation– Product report: strategy, implementation of strategy (SR)– Proces report: Using DrProject, teamwork, testing

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Group Assignment (Phase 3)• Implementation advanced functionality

– Using power up, navigation, communication, coordination & teamwork

• Deliverables

– Final implementation

– Final report (product): according to SR guidelines

– Final report (process): using DrProject, teamwork, self reflection, evaluation of project

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Group Assignment (Phase 4)• Competition

• Final meeting

When

- competition thur. 21 juni 13:00

- final meeting tue. 28 juni (all day)

Book in Agenda

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Meeting Agenda & Minutes• Agenda

• Date meeting• Opening and confirm agenda• Approve minutes last meeting & discuss action items (tickets on

DrProject!)• Announcements• Other (content or process-related) agenda items• Any other business• Closing

• Minutes• Presence, and who was chair and minutes secretary• For each agenda item a brief overview of discussion, what has been

agreed upon, and status; include owners of action items!• Action items overview, with links to tickets for each item.

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Evaluation• 0.7 x product grade + 0.3 x process grade

• both elements must be sufficient

• possible deviation based on individual contribution (based on proces report, peer review, DrProject input SA!)

• equal division of labour AND everybody should perform different kinds of tasks

• evaluation of code taking into account use of patterns and goals

• details: see project manual (Dutch)

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Documentation• Projectmanual (Dutch)• UT-GOAL manual• UT manual• GOAL documentation (GOAL Trac)• GOAL FAQ+Known & fixed bugs (GOAL Trac)

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Group Assignment: Organisation• Every group gets assigned its own student assistant: first

point of contact

• Student assistant provides feedback and advices: should be present at least once in each week at a group meeting

• Online project management via DrProject tool.

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SUCCES!!