September 09, 2010
 

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Diplomacy game: the test bed

Angela Fabregues and Carles Sierra
A rich shared-application domain is helping to further current research on negotiation and trust.


Authors

Angela Fabregues
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
http://www.iiia.csic.es/~fabregues

Angela Fabregues is a computer scientist. She graduated from the University of Barcelona in 2005 and obtained an MS in computer science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2007. She is currently a PhD candidate and works on models of trust and negotiation. She is using the Diplomacy game as a test bed for her theoretical models. She was formerly a software engineer at Strands and at the Technology Development Unit in Artificial Intelligence at IIIA-CSIC.

Carles Sierra
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Carles Sierra is a full professor at IIIA-CSIC. He received both an MS (1986) and a PhD in computer science (1989) from the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. His current research interests include formal methods and multiagent systems. Recently, he has been particularly active in methodological aspects and in trust modelling.


References
  1. http://www.daide.org.uk/index.xml Diplomacy AI Development Center. Accessed 29 July 2009.

  2. http://www.agreement-technologies.eu/ COST Action on Agreements Technologies. Accessed 29 July 2009.

  3. C. Sierra and J. Debenham, The LOGIC negotiation model, 6th Int'l Joint Conf. Auton. Agents Multi-Agent Syst., pp. 1026-1033, 2007.

  4. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/diplomacy The Diplomacy board game website. Accessed 29 July 2009.

  5. S. Kraus, D. Lehmann and E. Ephrati, An automated Diplomacy player Series Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence: The 1st Computer Olympiad , pp. 134-153, Ellis Horwood, Chicester, UK, 1989.

  6. C. Sierra and J. Debenham, Information-based reputation, 1st Int'l Conf. Reputation: Theory Technol., pp. 5-19, 2009.

  7. http://www.iiia.csic.es/?fabregues/Diplomacy Diplomacy at IIIA-CSIC. Accessed 29 July 2009.


 
DOI:  10.2417/2200908.1761