> Man, this one is a doosey...
>
> It combines:
>
> Cybernetics,
> AI  (Since the problem alone is NP, it becomes an AI problem).
> Game theory,
> Path finding
> and network programming.
>
> If I had three months to research this and get myself a working
> develment platform with a test server I would take a whack at it but the
> five-day time period for this problem is just insane.

If you spend a few minutes to read the task description you will see that
the problem is not *that* difficult:
http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/task.html

Andreas