Monthly MultiAgent.com news for Fri Jul 21 20:17:19 2006 Latest news and new additions ----------------------------- Colored Trails Project Colored Trails (CT) is a test-bed for investigating the types of decision-making that arise in task settings where the key interactions are among goals (of individuals or of groups), tasks required to accomplish those goals, and resources. The CT architecture allows games to be played by groups comprising people, computer agents, or heterogeneous mixes of people and computers. The purpose of the CT framework is to enable to design, learn and evaluate players' decision-making behavior as well as group dynamics in settings of varying complexity. German DAI Group The non-profit German Special Interest Group (SIG) on Distributed Artificial Intelligence is concerned with the representation, promotion and coordination of the field of Distributed AI and multiagent systems. Being part of the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.), its activities are focused on research, teaching and education, and industry. Game Theory and Poker A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist has demonstrated that you don't necessarily need to know much about poker to create a computer program that can play a winning hand of Texas Hold'Em. A knowledge of game theory, not the specialized expertise of a human poker player, is at the heart of the poker robot called GS1 developed by Tuomas Sandholm, director of Carnegie Mellon's Agent-Mediated Electronic Marketplaces Lab, and graduate student Andrew Gilpin. -- News from the www.MultiAgent.com website. Edited by Jose M. Vidal.