Tutorials

This section provides a set of use cases showing the flexibility of the framework implemented by NegMAS and its applicability to a variety of problems.

• What is SCM and SCML?
• A (not very) brief introduction to NegMAS
  • Negotiation Management
• A brief introduction to SCM
  • The Oneshot game (OneShot)
  • The Full game (Standard Track)
• Run a session of the SCML world (2024)
• Running a tournament
• Running a One-Shot tournament
• Running against winners from previous years
• Developing an agent for SCML2024 (OneShot)
  • Testing a completely random agent
  • An agent that does nothing
  • Building your own agent
  • OneShotAgent
  • A (suposedly) better greedy agent
  • Thinking about other negotiations
  • OneShotSyncAgent
  • A better SyncAgent
  • Comparing all agents
• Running against winners from previous years
• Developing an agent using RL (new in 2024)
  • Moving Pieces
  • How to train your dragon (agent)?
  • What can you change?
  • Developing an RL agent for SCML
  • A note about SCML Standard
• Developing an agent for SCML2024 (Standard)
  • Testing a completely random agent
  • A do-nothing agent
  • Building your own agent
  • StdAgent
  • A (suposedly) better greedy agent
  • Simple Sync Agent
  • A better SyncAgent
  • Comparing all agents
• Running Controlled Experiments
  • The recommended method
  • Levels of control
  • Using generate():
  • Controlling agent allocation to factories
  • Controlling construction paramteres
  • Controlling other aspects of the simulation
  • Controlling Profiles
  • Controlling exogenous contracts
• Logging and Statistics
  • Types of Logs
  • Primer on logging in negmas
  • Controlling logging
• Getting infromation about a simulation
  • World Information
  • Contracts and Negotiations
• Ideas for developing you agent (OneShot)
  • IDEA 1: Learn the acceptance strategy of your partners
  • IDEA 2: Predict future market conditions
• Final Remarks
• Developing an agent for Legacy (Std/Collusion) [Deprecated]
  • Do Nothing Agent
  • Agent Anatomy
  • Creating our own negotiation control strategy
  • Changing the negotiation strategy
  • Overriding an agent directly
  • An agent from scratch
  • A competition
  • Running OneShot agents (advanced)