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This work introduces Amorphous Fortress Online -- a web-based platform where users can design petri-dish-like environments and games consisting of multi-agent AI characters. Users can play, create, and share artificial life and game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-11 M Charity , Mayu Wilson , Steven Lee , Dipika Rajesh , Sam Earle , Julian Togelius

LLM-driven multi-agent-based simulations have been gaining traction with applications in game-theoretic and social simulations. While most implementations seek to exploit or evaluate LLM-agentic reasoning, they often do so with a weak…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vince Trencsenyi , Agnieszka Mensfelt , Kostas Stathis

Multi-agent learning is a challenging problem in machine learning that has applications in different domains such as distributed control, robotics, and economics. We develop a prescriptive model of multi-agent behavior using Markov games.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Jalal Etesami , Christoph-Nikolas Straehle

Training agents in multi-agent competitive games presents significant challenges due to their intricate nature. These challenges are exacerbated by dynamics influenced not only by the environment but also by opponents' strategies. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 The Viet Bui , Tien Mai , Thanh Hong Nguyen

During our participation in MAPC 2019, we have developed two multi-agent systems that have been designed specifically for this competition. The first of the systems is pro-active system that works with pre-specified scenarios and tasks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Vaclav Uhlir , Frantisek Zboril , Frantisek Vidensky

We study environments in which agents are randomly matched to play a Prisoner's Dilemma, and each player observes a few of the partner's past actions against previous opponents. We depart from the existing related literature by allowing a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-06-30 Yuval Heller , Erik Mohlin

As complex societal issues continue to emerge, fostering democratic skills like valuing diverse perspectives and collaborative decision-making is increasingly vital in education. In this paper, we propose a Peer Agent (PA) system designed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Kyuwon Kim , Jaeryeong Hwang , Younseo Lee , Jeanhee Lee , Sung-Eun Kim , Hyo-Jeong So

Pommerman is a hybrid cooperative/adversarial multi-agent environment, with challenging characteristics in terms of partial observability, limited or no communication, sparse and delayed rewards, and restrictive computational time limits.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Omkar Shelke , Hardik Meisheri , Harshad Khadilkar

In 2016, 2017, and 2018 at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games, the authors of this paper ran a competition for agents that can play classic text-based adventure games. This competition fills a gap in existing game AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Timothy Atkinson , Hendrik Baier , Tara Copplestone , Sam Devlin , Jerry Swan

In this paper, we explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) Agents in playing the strategic social deduction game, Resistance Avalon. Players in Avalon are challenged not only to make informed decisions based on dynamically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jonathan Light , Min Cai , Sheng Shen , Ziniu Hu

Artificial Intelligence is becoming instrumental in a variety of applications. Games serve as a good breeding ground for trying and testing these algorithms in a sandbox with simpler constraints in comparison to real life. In this project,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Anand Venkatesan , Atishay Jain , Rakesh Grewal

This paper presents a Multi-Agent System (MAS) approach for designing an air pollution simulator. The aim is to simulate the concentration of air pollutants emitted from sources (e.g. factories) and to investigate the emergence of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sabri Ghazi , Julie Dugdale , Tarek Khadir

In this paper, we describe the strategies used by our team, MLFC, that led us to achieve the 2nd place in the 15th edition of the Multi-Agent Programming Contest. The scenario used in the contest is an extension of the previous edition…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Rafael C. Cardoso , Angelo Ferrando , Fabio Papacchini , Matt Luckcuck , Sven Linker , Terry R. Payne

In this paper we explore how actor-critic methods in deep reinforcement learning, in particular Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C), can be extended with agent modeling. Inspired by recent works on representation learning and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Pablo Hernandez-Leal , Bilal Kartal , Matthew E. Taylor

Collaboration is a cornerstone of society. In the real world, human teammates make use of multi-sensory data to tackle challenging tasks in ever-changing environments. It is essential for embodied agents collaborating in visually-rich…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Qian Long , Zhi Li , Ran Gong , Ying Nian Wu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Xiaofeng Gao

Multi-agent approach has become popular in computer science and technology. However, the conventional models of multi-agent and multicomponent systems implicitly or explicitly assume existence of absolute time or even do not include time in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Mark Burgin

In this paper, we introduce an agent-based representation of games, in order to propose a compact representation for multi-party games in game theory. Our method is inspired by concepts in process theory and process algebra. In addition, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Omid Gheibi , Rasoul Ramezanian

This research presents LLM Pokemon League, a competitive tournament system that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) as intelligent agents to simulate strategic decision-making in Pok\'emon battles. The platform is designed to analyze and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tadisetty Sai Yashwanth , Dhatri C

Game environments offer a unique opportunity for training virtual agents due to their interactive nature, which provides diverse play traces and affect labels. Despite their potential, no reinforcement learning framework incorporates human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Matthew Barthet , Roberto Gallotta , Ahmed Khalifa , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Emergent language research has made significant progress in recent years, but still largely fails to explore how communication emerges in more complex and situated multi-agent systems. Existing setups often employ a reference game, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Cornelius Wolff , Julius Mayer , Elia Bruni , Xenia Ohmer