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Warm-up Competition Submission Deadline extended
Welcome to the Maritime Shipping Competition (MSC) at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025). Participating in the competition requires you to design a software agent that applies innovative ideas for auction bidding and transport scheduling to simulate a maritime transport company. Participating allows you to compete for three performance-based prices and an innovative idea price.
Maritime transportation is one of the backbones of international trade and supply chains. While the sector has shown growth in recent years, maritime transportation is also facing critical challenges around geopolitical tensions, climate change and disruptions at key chokepoints, e.g. the Panama and the Suez Canals. Shipping companies are investigating digital solutions, including digital twin and multi-agent technologies, to improve fleet utilisation, e.g. via transportation scheduling, to reduce costs but also greenhouse gas emissions. Many of these digital solutions are in their infancy and could benefit from innovative applications of approaches from multiagent system, artificial intelligence and related technologies.
Are you a researcher or practitioner interested in better maritime transportation and/or experienced in any of the approached and want to compete for the price, then read on.
If you would like to participate, please fill in this form to pre-register and receive a group number.
Attendance at AAMAS: If you want to attend the competition session at AAMAS, which is required for giving the presentation to compete for the Most Interesting Strategy Agent Prize, it is necessary to register for the Workshop & Tutorial Day 2 (20/05/2025).
If you would like some additional information before you pre-register please have a look at the following links.
- If you are interested in the platform we will use to run the competition, its called MABLE and more information can be found under MABLE.
- If you are interested in the tournament and its rules, look at Tournament.
- If you want to get started with development, check Developing and Agent.
- If you want to forward the call for contribution, see Call for Participation.
- If you are looking for information on how to submit, please have a look at Submission.
Besides the final tournament we will be running a warm-up competition towards the end of March/the beginning of April for you to see how your agent is competing against other participants.
For the complete timeline see below.
Timeline
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Warm-up Competition Submission Deadline | |
| Warm-up Competition Results Release | |
| Competition Submission Deadline | 28/04/2025 |
| Announcement of Presentation Slots | 05/05/2025 |
| Competition Results Presentation and Winner Announcement (at AAMAS 2025) | 20/05/2025 |
All submission dates are 23:59h AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Contact us: msc.aamas2025@soton.ac.uk