[robocup-rescue-s] Call for Participation: RobocupRescue 2007 (deadline for pre-registration 17/12//06)

Dear all,

Expanding on what Arash has sent in his previous email (which i hope he
won't mind) regarding the pre-registration process, I would urge you to
forward the following CFP to other mailing lists that you believe might
have some relevance to the RobocupRescue simulation competition.

Please let me know if you want to put anything up regarding the
competition on the website.

Regards,

Gopal

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        CFP: RobocupRescue Simulation Competition 2007
              
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      To be held in conjunction with Robocup 2007 in Atlanta, July 2007

        (http://www.robocup-us.org/)
         
       
       URL: http://www.robocuprescue.org/robocup2007/cfp.html
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Please submit your intention to participate by the **17th of December**
(only affiliation information required)
(see instructions at:
http://www.robocuprescue.org/robocup2007/instructions.html)

Invite
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The RobocupRescue Simulation Competition is divided two main strands:
the Agent competition and the Infrastructure competition.

*Agent Competition:
The Agent competition involves scoring competing agent coordination
algorithms on different maps of the RobocupRescue simulation platform.
The challenge in this case involves developing coordination algorithms
that will enable teams of Ambulances, Police forces, and Fire Brigades
to save as many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in a city
where an earthquake has just happened. The following general issues have
to be dealt with:

1. Path planning under uncertainty (given that roads may be blocked).
2. Communication with constrained bandwidth and uncertainty
3. Reasoning under uncertainty
4. Scheduling
5. Data fusion

This year's competition will see the implementation of a improved
simulators, noisy/corrupted communication and sensing abilities, and an
improved scoring system.

*Infrastructure Competition:
The Infrastructure competition involves evaluating tools and simulators
developed for the simulation platform and for simulating disaster
management problems in general. Here, the intent is, (but not limited
to), to build up realistic simulators and tools that could be used to
enhance the basic RobocupRescue simulator and expand upon it.

Goal:
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While the general goal of the competition is to develop tools for
disaster management, it also provides a playground to try out tools and
techniques developed by Multi-Agent Systems and Artificial Intelligence
research communities and allow them to showcase the applicability of
their techniques to significant real-world problems.

For more information please consult: http://www.robocuprescue.org

Procedure to enter the competitions:
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We require that groups intent on participating in the competitions
should follow the instructions given on
http://www.robocuprescue.org/robocup2007/instructions.html to
pre-register so that they can be directly informed about the settings to
be used in the competitions. The deadline for pre-registration is the
***17th of December***. This does not require submitting any code or
detailed explanation of your strategy/simulator. Once you have
pre-registered you will be notified when to submit your team description
papers and code for the competition.

Special Note for new-comers
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We understand that not all groups are familiar with the RobocupRescue
platform. However, new teams can either choose to code their own
algorithms for the Agent competition or use algorithms developed by
other teams in previous years. While the basic robocuprescue package
comes with dummy agents pre-intalled, there are a number of JAVA-based
and C++-based code that are open source and available for downlaod at
http://www.robocuprescue.org/robocup/ (see the compressed files in the
different folders which denote different days of the 2006 competition).
Last years top 3 teams' codes are directly downloadable from
http://www.robocuprescue.org/competitions.html.

To download the simulator and basic agent code, follow the instructions
on http://www.robocuprescue.org/tools.html

There is also a wiki which is under development and where we aim to
store all instructions on how to install and run the simulator and
agents: http://www.robocuprescue.org/wiki

Finally, please register with the RobocupRescue simulation mailing list
to receive regular updates about the simulator changes and to ask
questions anything to do with the simulator(s). See instructions on how
to do this: https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-rescue-s

Important note:
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We adhere to an open-source policy on all code submitted to the
competition. This means that teams need to make sure that they will not
violate any software licences by providing their code for free download
after the competition.

Important Dates:
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December 17, 2006: Deadline for pre-registration.
February 2007 (Exact date to be decided): Teams submit team description
papers
March 2007 (Exact date to be decided): Acceptance notification to
participating teams.
July 2007: Competition takes place in conjunction with Robocup 2007.

Organising Committee
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Cameron Skinner (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Arash Rahimi (Iran)
Dr. Nobuhiro Ito (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

Technical committee:
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Mohammad Mehdi Sabourian (Iran)
Dr. Sarvapali D. Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Yasovardhan Reddy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)

Execs:
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Prof. H. Levent Akin (Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
Alexander Kleiner (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Stefano Carpin (International University Bremen, Germany)

-- 
Dr. Sarvapali Ramchurn
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group    t: +44 (0) 23 8059 3270
Electronics and Computer Science          f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton                 e: sdr@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdr
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