The performance Impact of Communication Failure in BlocksWorld for Teams

Multi-agent systems often communicate to perform better at their tasks. However, messages sometimes get lost after sending, and the communication is disrupted. This paper looks into the effects of messages having a chance of not arriving with an agent using the Blocks World for Teams simulation environment. The environment uses agent teams...

Evaluating a Cognitive Agent-Orientated Approach for the creation of Artificial Intelligence in StarCraft

In this thesis a cognitive multi-agent system is developed for the real-time strategy game StarCraft: Brood War using GOAL, a language developed at the Delft University of Technology. StarCraft provides various challenges to GOAL that it has not faced before in terms of complexity and quantity of agents. A connector is required for GOAL to...

Multi-agent systems in StarCraft

The Interactive Intelligence section of the TU Delft would like to replace the game UT3 that is used in the Multi-Agent Systems project (MAS-project), which is a part of the bachelor curriculum of computer science. The game that has been selected for this purpose is StarCraft. StarCraft is called the `next challenge in AI development' by Google....

A fully integrated development environment for GOAL in Eclipse

For the GOAL agent programming platform, a new, full-fledged IDE was created that provides support for all phases in the agent program development process, with the concepts of integration and adaptation at its base. Using the DLTK framework, a plug-in for the Eclipse platform was created in multiple iterations, continuously evaluating the...

Unreal Tournament 3 GOAL Environment

Report about the design and development of the Unreal Tournament 3 EIS Environment for GOAL.

A Qualitative Comparative Study between Posh and GOAL for Programming UT2004 Bots

A variety of agent programming languages have been proposed in the literature but only few comparative studies have been performed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these languages. In order to gain a better understanding of the programming features and the use of these features by programmers it is imperative to perform studies on...

Geological Modelling with GOAL and Cellular Automata

The hydrocarbon reservoirs that are relatively easy to find and produce are becoming increasingly more scarce. The geographical location and the internal complexity of the majority of the reservoirs that are brought into production necessitate extensive research of all the reservoir characteristics. One element in the array of research tools is...

Analyzing and applying agent oriented programming methods for teaching purposes

In this thesis we discuss ways to improve teaching methods for agent oriented programming. The research approach consists of several steps. First data is gathered from groups of students participating in a first year agent programming project that uses the Unreal Tournament 2004 environment. The stronger and weaker groups are analyzed in a...

Model checking GOAL agents

This thesis presents a novel approach to model checking of agent programs written in an agent programming language. The language we consider is GOAL. The novelty of the approach is that we implement model checking algorithms from scratch on top of the standard language interpreter. In contrast, in the literature on agent program verification,...

Communication in Goal Oriented Agents

In this thesis the agent programming language GOAL is extended with communication. For GOAL we pur- sue an implementation that has a well-founded theory as well as providing pragmatic programming constructs for the programmer. Existing technologies are reviewed to explore their approaches. Many of these technolo- gies have Speech-act theory as...