Contingency planning for multiagent adversarial game playing:

Before a game starts, one would expect the team to generate a strategic plan for the game that includes contingency plan segments that are to be recognized and eventually slightly adapted in real-time. Two main challenges can be identified in this task:

• Definition of strategic task actions with probabilistic applicability conditions and effects. Uncertainty in the action specification is directly related to the identification of possible probabilistic disruptive or favorable external events.

• Definition of objectives to achieve. In this domain, the goal of winning and scoring should be decomposed in a variety of more concrete goals that serve the ultimate final scoring goal. Examples are actions and goals to achieve specific attacking or defending positioning.