SPECIFYING MULTIAGENT ENVIRONMENTS IN THE GAME DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher

2009

Abstract

The Game Description Language (GDL) has been developed for the purpose of formalizing game rules. It serves as the input language for general game players, which are systems that learn to play previously unknown games without human intervention. In this paper, we show that GDL can be readily used as a specification language for a large class of multiagent environments. The resulting specifications are declarative, compact, and easy to understand and maintain. At the same time they can be fully automatically understood and used by autonomous agents who intend to participate in these environments. Our main result is a formal characterization of the class of multiagent environments that can be described in GDL.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Schiffel S. and Thielscher M. (2009). SPECIFYING MULTIAGENT ENVIRONMENTS IN THE GAME DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8111-66-1, pages 21-28. DOI: 10.5220/0001560200210028

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart09,
author={Stephan Schiffel and Michael Thielscher},
title={SPECIFYING MULTIAGENT ENVIRONMENTS IN THE GAME DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2009},
pages={21-28},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001560200210028},
isbn={978-989-8111-66-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - SPECIFYING MULTIAGENT ENVIRONMENTS IN THE GAME DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE
SN - 978-989-8111-66-1
AU - Schiffel S.
AU - Thielscher M.
PY - 2009
SP - 21
EP - 28
DO - 10.5220/0001560200210028