[robocup-rescue-s] Preliminary CFP: RoboCupRescue Agent and Infrastructure 2008

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Preliminary CFP: RobocupRescue Agent and Infrastructure Competitions 2008
               
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   To be held in conjunction with Robocup 2008 in Suzhou, China

                (http://robocup-cn.org/en/)
          
        
     
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Please submit your intention to participate by the **4th of January 2008**
(only affiliation information required-see below)

Invite
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The RobocupRescue Agent Simulation Competition is divided two main
sub-leagues: 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
3. Reasoning under uncertainty
4. Scheduling
5. Data fusion
6. Distributed constraints optimisation problems

Teams have to individually achieve a score on chosen maps which represent
different situations (e.g., civilians and fires, major fire in one corner of
a city, blocked roads to refuges, damaged platoon agents, fire maps,
civilian maps where only fires need to be extinguished or civilians need to
be saved respectively) and this will determine how they compare with other
teams. The best teams on each map are then selected to move up the various
rounds of the tournament.

* Infrastructure Competition:
The Infrastructure competition involves evaluating tools and simulators 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. The
best tools and simulators will be evaluated by a panel and a winner chosen
accordingly. The best tools will be selected for further integration with
the simulation platform.

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.

For the 2008 edition of the championship, special consideration will be
given to entries dealing with the following:

1. A map converter which takes standard file formats (e.g. google maps,
shape files etc..) and converts them to the RobocupRescue map format.
2. A new traffic simulator that conforms to more realistic settings.
3. A flood simulator.

Procedure to enter the competitions:
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We require that groups intent on participating in the competitions should
send the following information to kamal_at_iiit.net:

Team Name:
Affiliation:
Leader:
Contact email:
Website:

For each team member:

Email:
Address:
Previous participation in RoboCupRescue:

The deadline for pre-registration is the ***4th of January 2008***. This
does not require submitting any code or detailed explanation of your
strategy/simulator.

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 will be soon available for download here. Last
years top 3 teams' codes will be directly downloadable from this page in the
coming weeks.

Note: It is important that new teams improve upon and acknowledge previous
teams' codes. Otherwise, they may be disqualified.

Important Dates:
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January 4, 2008: Deadline for pre-registration.
February 2008 (Exact date to be decided): Rules of the game and tentative
package released for testing.
March 2008 (Tentative): Teams submit their qualification material.
April 2008 (Tentative): Acceptance notification to participating teams.
July 2008: Competition takes place in conjunction with Robocup 2008.

Organising Committee
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Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Nobuhiro Ito (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)

Technical committee:
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Kamal Karlapalem (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)
Ioannis Vetsikas (University of Southampton, UK)
Omid AmirGhiasvand (Mechatronics Research Lab, Iran)
Jiang Fu (South East China University, China)

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)

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