MAPC Questionnaire and Feedback

[Tobias Ahlbrecht]

Hello MAPC people,

We have uploaded the new questionnaire now: https://multiagentcontest.org/2020/questionnaire.tex

Please answer and append it to your team description paper. It would be great if you could send us a (not necessarily final) version until 21 April.

There's also a feedback form that is more related to the contest organization and possible future direction: https://forms.gle/YaSBVaHZm9dvDn7v8

We'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes and answer it as well. Anyone (or even everyone) from your team may take part. Even if you didn't participate in the last contest, we'd value your feedback as well, of course.

We won't close it, but the sooner you reply, the more likely it is we can take your feedback into account for the next contest :)

Thanks everybody!

Best regards,

Tobias

[Laszlo Z. Varga]

Hello everyone!

Thanks to the organisers for the new competition.

We have questions regarding the move action with multiple directions:
One of the failure codes for the move action is "partial_success: At
least the first step worked but one of the later moves was blocked."
How do the agents know the number of steps that worked?
Is it possible that the first step worked, the second step did not work,
and the third step worked?

Best regards
Laszlo

[Laszlo Z. Varga]

[Tobias Ahlbrecht]

Hello!

The agent will try to move until it is blocked and then stop. E.g. if the second move is blocked, the third won’t be attempted anymore. The agent won’t know how many moves worked however. It could be deduced from context, i.e. positions of surrounding elements. Or if the agent only tries to move 2 cells, then success indicates that both moves worked, while partial_success will mean that 1 move worked in this case. Moving faster will carry the potential risk of losing orientation if something unexpectedly blocks the agent’s path.
I’ll try to make the documentation more precise as well.

Best regards,
Tobias

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[Laszlo Z. Varga]

Thank you for the clarification.
Laszlo