Maeden is a simulated grid-world environment designed to support multi-agent problem-solving. Agent controllers may be written in any language that supports basic sockets.

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• when simulation ends (in the case where eating the food is the ultimate goal), send disconnect signals to any other agents currently connected
• in server loop, keep track of connected agents' energy even if they are deliberating; kill them if they run out of energy
• adjust simulation time units to correspond to 'wait cost' and then deduct wait-cost every time-slice when agents do not act
• action cost incurred should reflect cost of actual action selected by agent plus wait costs since the last action (or connection if first action); this item may be obviated by previous item
• fix the foundBase and killGrid interaction that is happening in Grid.java
• create associative array to store action costs, indexed by action character
• resolve conflict when two agents want to move into the same square
• track down problem with stochastic failure giving incorrect status; problem starts in processAgentActions() where STOCHASTICISM/STOCHASTIC_RATE is sometimes exercised
• create wrapper server that will fork a simulation in specified world (do we really want this?)
• upgrade documentation in Java sources to support javadoc
• modify assignment of agent IDs to re-use IDs that have been released
• remove restriction of single-digit agent IDs (i.e., limit of 10 agents)
• add shield object or armor or chain mail, etc.