SIMPATROL - Towards the Establishment of Multi-agent Patrolling as a Benchmark for Multi-agent Systems

Daniel Moreira, Geber Ramalho, Patrícia Tedesco

2009

Abstract

This paper discusses the establishment of multi-agent patrolling (MAP) as a benchmark for multi-agent systems (MAS). It argues that MAP can be a good benchmark for MAS, and points out what is lacking in order for this to happen. From the identified lacuna of not having a testbed, it presents SimPatrol, a simulator of MAS constructed strictly for the patrolling task. With such testbed, new results of performance are obtained for some of the previously proposed patrolling strategies.

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Moreira D., Ramalho G. and Tedesco P. (2009). SIMPATROL - Towards the Establishment of Multi-agent Patrolling as a Benchmark for Multi-agent Systems . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8111-66-1, pages 570-575. DOI: 10.5220/0001807005700575


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart09,
author={Daniel Moreira and Geber Ramalho and Patrícia Tedesco},
title={SIMPATROL - Towards the Establishment of Multi-agent Patrolling as a Benchmark for Multi-agent Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2009},
pages={570-575},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001807005700575},
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 - SIMPATROL - Towards the Establishment of Multi-agent Patrolling as a Benchmark for Multi-agent Systems
SN - 978-989-8111-66-1
AU - Moreira D.
AU - Ramalho G.
AU - Tedesco P.
PY - 2009
SP - 570
EP - 575
DO - 10.5220/0001807005700575