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*******************CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION*******************
Robocup European Championship-2000 Amsterdam
The First Robocup European Championship 2000 and Conferences
28 May - 2 June
University Sport Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
See http://www.robocup.org
The Robot World Cup, RoboCup, is an international initiative to foster
AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem,
a soccer game, where a wide range of technologies can be integrated
and examined. This is the first European RoboCup event, and it will
be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The competitions will take
place at the Sport Center of the University of Amsterdam. The
participation of the best teams of this European Championship in the
Robot World Cup in Australia will be sponsored by the organizing
commitee.
The first Robot World Cup, RoboCup-97, was held in Nagoya, Japan, in
August 1997, and included the participation of more than 40 teams. The
second Robot World Cup, RoboCup-98, was held in Paris, in July 98, and
more than 60 teams participated. In 1999 the third Robot Soccer World
Cup was held in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 2000 the fourth Robot
Soccer World Cup Games will be held in Australia. Future scheduled
RoboCup events are: RoboCup-2001 Seattle, RoboCup-2002 Japan. Sites
for 2003 and after are not decided.
In order for a team of robot agents to play a soccer game, different
technologies must be integrated, including design principles of
autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition,
real-time reasoning, sensor-fusion, and learning. RoboCup is a task
for a team of multiple fast-moving robot agents in a dynamic,
non-deterministic, and adversarial environment. The different leagues
emphasize different aspects of the challenge of creating teams of
autonomous agents.
As a test bed for progressing the technology of multiple agent systems
Robocup serves to bring together teams of researchers in a cooperative
environment. It is a condition of entry that teams must disclose the
technology used in the creation of their teams. The competitions
themselves are very exciting and provide both educational and
entertainment interest for the audience that attends Robocup events.
Real Robot Small League (F180):
Teams of up to five real robots of small size (approximately 15 cm in
diameter) compete on a 1.525 x 2.74 m field.
Real Robot Medium League (F2000):
Teams of up to five real robots of medium size (approximately 50cm in
diameter) compete on a 4.575 x 8.22m field.
Simulation League:
Software agents play soccer using the RoboCup soccer server simulator,
available from the RoboCup Web page. The competition will be played on
a parallel machine running Linux. The registered teams will have the
possibility to experiment on this system during the last two months
before Robocup European Championship 2000. We plan to have also an
application available which can be downloaded, so that people can see
the simulation competition on Internet in real-time.
Visualization
A number of groups in the world work on 3D visualization systems of
the log-file data of the robot simulator, automatic commenting systems
and automatic systems for the selection of the most challenging events
during the competition. These systems will be demonstrated during the
event
Legged Robot League:
A demo of Sony legged robots playing soccer games will be given.
Workshop:
A workshop will be held to present and discuss technical details of
the robots and software agents which participate in the competition,
as well as other research and educational topics related to
RoboCup. The workshop submission is open to anyone interested in
science and technology related to RoboCup. It is not limited to
participants of RoboCup competition program. RoboCup commentators, 3D
visualization, theoretical analysis of real soccer games, application
and relevance of RoboCup to significant social program, specific
technologies which may be applied to improve RoboCup's team
performance, educational issues, etc, are all welcome contributions to
the workshop program. Post-workshop proceedings will be published
from Springer-Verlag as a sub-line of Lecture Notes on Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI). Details about the paper submission will be made
available at the RoboCup official Web site.
Rules and selection:
Details of the rules for the different competitions are available at
the RoboCup official Web site http://www.robocup.org. Selection of
teams to compete at RoboCup is the responsibility of each
league. Teams wishing to enter should consult the league pages at the
RoboCup official Web site and take care to read the qualification
requirements carefully. General Questions on RoboCup may be send to
kitano at csl.sony.co.jp.
Important
All teams intending to participate will have to make a
pre-registration before the 31st of December 1999. The registration
form will be made available on the RoboCup Web home page.
For registration and all questions on Robocup European
Championship-2000, please contact
Gerrie Rijnsburger gerrie at nat.vu.nl,
Faculty of Sciences, De Boelelaan 1081,
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Tel. +31 20 444 7891,
Fax +31 20 444 7899.
All papers for the workshop should be submitted in a camera ready
fashion before February 15 2000 to
Dr. W. van der Hoek, wiebe at cs.uu.nl,
Computer Science Department,
Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, De Uithof, 3584 CH Utrecht,
Tel. +31 - 30 - 253 3599,
Fax. +31 - 30 - 251 3791
Important Dates:
Obligatory pre-registration: December 31, 1999
Deadline for papers for workshop: February 15, 2000
Final registration Robocup European Championship.
Access to the parallel LINUX system: April 1, 2000
Simulation: teams can test their code on the target machine of the
competition: April and May 2000
Simulation teams deliver their final code: May 27 (Saturday)
Small/Middle size: teams can set up and test their equipment: May 28 -
May 29
Pre-round in parallel: May 30 - May 31
Robocup European Championship Workshop: June 1
Quarter, Semi-finals and finals: June 2
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International Organizing Committee
Robocup European Championship 2000
The International Organizing Committee should be representative for
the European countries involved in Robocup, and reflect the Robocup
activity in the different countries.
Also advisory members from the USA and Japan would strengthen the
Eurobocup 2000 event.
Belgium
Andeas Birk - VU Brussels (Small Size)
cyrano at arti.vub.ac.be
United Kingdom
Huosheng Hu - Essex
hhu at essex.ac.uk
Finland
Jarkko Kemppainen - Oulu
jarkko.kemppainen at nokia.com
France
Pierre Blazevic
blazevic at robot.uvsq.fr
Germany
Gerhard Kraetzschmar - Ulm (Vice co-chair)
gkk at acm.org
Andreas Zell - Tuebingen
zell at Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.de
Raul Rojas - Berlin
rojas at inf.fu-berlin.de
Italy
Enrico Pagello - Padua (Vice co-chair)
epv at dei.unipd.it
Giovanni Adorni - Parma (Workshop)
adorni at ce.unipr.it
Netherlands
Frans Groen - Amsterdam (chair)
groen at wins.uva.nl
Portugal
Pedro Lima (Middle Size)
pal at isr.ist.utl.pt
Russia
Leo Stankevich - St.Petersburg
stankevitch at phtf.stu.neva.ru
Spain
Josep De la Rosa - Girona
peplluis at eia.udg.es
Sweden
Silvia Coradeschi - Linkoping
silco at ida.liv.se
Advisors
USA
Manuela Veloso - CMU
mmv at school.coral.cs.cmu.edu
Peter Stone - CMU
pstone at research.att.com
Japan
Hiroaki Kitano
kitano at symbio.jst.go.jp
Asada
asada at er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Local Organizers
Dr. H.J.W. Spoelder - Free University Amsterdam (Chairman/Simulator)
hs at nat.vu.nl
Dr. ir. B.J.A. Krose - University of Amsterdam (Education)
krose at wins.uva.nl
Dr. ir. P.P. Jonker - Delft University of Technology (Middle Size)
P.P.Jonker at PH.TN.TUDelft.NL
Dr. S. Stramigioli - Delft University of Technology (Small Size)
S.Stramigioli at ITS.TUDelft.NL
Dr. W. van de Hoek - University of Utrecht (Workshop)
wiebe at cs.uu.nl
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For further details, please visit
http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup
and
http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/org-Eurobocup.html
or download the files (MS Word97 format)
http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/CFP-Eurobocup.doc
http://robocup.ce.unipr.it/Eurobocup/org-Eurobocup.doc
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