A multiagent semantics for the Game Description Language

Stephan Schiffel; Michael Thielscher

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4

A multiagent semantics for the Game Description Language

Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

23 Citations (Scopus)

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 how GDL descriptions can be interpreted as multiagent domains and, conversely, how a large class of multiagent environments can be specified in GDL. 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 domains that serve as formal semantics for-and can be described in-the Game Description Language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agents and Aartificial Intelligence International Conference, ICAART 2009, Porto, Portugal, January 19-21, 2009: Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer
Pages	44-55
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783642118180
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	ICAART (Conference) - Duration: 19 Jan 2009 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	ICAART (Conference)
Period	19/01/09 → …

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4

Cite this

@inproceedings{20667d152d234f218ee8498b92f4c15e,

title = "A multiagent semantics for the Game Description Language",

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 how GDL descriptions can be interpreted as multiagent domains and, conversely, how a large class of multiagent environments can be specified in GDL. 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 domains that serve as formal semantics for-and can be described in-the Game Description Language.",

author = "Stephan Schiffel and Michael Thielscher",

year = "2010",

doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4",

language = "English",

isbn = "9783642118180",

publisher = "Springer",

pages = "44--55",

booktitle = "Agents and Aartificial Intelligence International Conference, ICAART 2009, Porto, Portugal, January 19-21, 2009: Revised Selected Papers",

note = "ICAART (Conference) ; Conference date: 19-01-2009",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - A multiagent semantics for the Game Description Language

AU - Schiffel, Stephan

AU - Thielscher, Michael

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - 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 how GDL descriptions can be interpreted as multiagent domains and, conversely, how a large class of multiagent environments can be specified in GDL. 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 domains that serve as formal semantics for-and can be described in-the Game Description Language.

AB - 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 how GDL descriptions can be interpreted as multiagent domains and, conversely, how a large class of multiagent environments can be specified in GDL. 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 domains that serve as formal semantics for-and can be described in-the Game Description Language.

UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/549902

UR - http://www.icaart.org/ICAART2009/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-11819-7_4

M3 - Conference Paper

SN - 9783642118180

SP - 44

EP - 55

BT - Agents and Aartificial Intelligence International Conference, ICAART 2009, Porto, Portugal, January 19-21, 2009: Revised Selected Papers

PB - Springer

T2 - ICAART (Conference)

Y2 - 19 January 2009

ER -

A multiagent semantics for the Game Description Language

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this