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The Maritime Shipping Competition (MSC) at AAMAS 2025 introduced a novel challenge focused on autonomous decision-making in maritime logistics. Participants developed agents capable of bidding for cargoes in sequential reverse auctions and scheduling transportation under uncertainty. Using the Maritime Agent-Based Logistics Emulator (MABLE), the competition simulated tramp trade shipping markets …

The design of autonomous AI agents that behave responsibly and foster trust in open multi-agent systems remains a fundamental challenge. Traditional game-theoretical approaches largely assume self-interested behaviour, yet real-world collaborations among humans often rely on prosocial considerations that extend beyond individual utility. To address this, for the first time in this paper, we inves…

ODRL is a policy-expressing language, framework and vocabulary that has become the standard for representing policies and regulations for digital rights. The complexity of this language is a barrier to its usage, which has caused many related theoretical and practical works to focus on different, and not interoperable, fragments of ODRL. Moreover, semantically equivalent policies can be expressed…

Critical thinking classes are ubiquitous in U.S. college curricula. One of their aims is to teach good reasoning skills. To date, there is little systematic evidence that they do this. We report the results of a field experiment (N =397) that compared undergraduate critical thinking classes taught in a philosophy department to other undergraduate philosophy classes. The results suggest that an ap…

Opportuaities provided by small satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) are anticipated to make a significant impact on the space economy through the delivery of important and innovative services. However, with plans by some companies to operate large constellations of small satellites in LEO, and with many small satellite launches forecast in coming decades, there is concern that existing debris mit…

This report presents the results of a theoretical study of active sound transmission control through a double panel. The double panel material and geometrical properties have been chosen so as to emulate section of an aircraft fuselage, or bodywork of a vehicle. It consists of two plates: an aluminium plate simply supported along all the edges and a honeycomb plate with all the edges free. The tw…