[agents] Call for Participation: First Intention Progression Competition

[Brian Logan]

Call for Participation: First Intention Progression Competition 

www.intentionprogression.org

A key problem for an agent with multiple, possibly inconsistent, goals is: "what should I do next"?  What to do next can be formalised as the Intention Progression Problem (IPP): what means (i.e., plan) to use to achieve a given (sub)goal, and which of the currently adopted plans (i.e., intentions) to progress at the current moment. This problem is central to autonomous systems, but research on the IPP is fragmented and suffers from a lack of common terminology, data formats, and enabling tools.  

The aim of the Intention Progression Competition (IPC) is to incentivise research on the problem of how an agent should achieve its goals, i.e., which plan to use to achieve a given goal, and which of the currently adopted plans (intentions) to progress at the current moment. Competition entries take the form of a solver for intention progression problems. The solver forms a part of a simple agent that operates in a simulated environment and is evaluated on a set of benchmark intention progression problems. The agent, environment and problem instances are specified as part of the competition. For more information about the competition, see www.intentionprogression.org or email intentionprogession at googlegroups.com.

The First Intention Progression Competition will be held in April 2020, and the results will be announced at the Nineteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2020) in May 2020.
  
We are currently soliciting participation in the competition. To register your interest, please complete the registration form at: https://www.intentionprogression.org/register/

Provisional timeline

August-September 2019 registration phase opens
September 2019 Competition platform available
March 2020 Final submission of entries
April 2020 Competition
May 2020 Competition results announced at AAMAS 2020






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