Forwarded message from [cagnoni@CE.UniPR.IT] sent originally on Sat, 1 Jan 2000 20:06:20 +0800 (GMT-8): : (apologies for multiple copies) : : *******************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@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@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@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 : : *********************************************************************** : 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@arti.vub.ac.be : : United Kingdom : Huosheng Hu - Essex : hhu@essex.ac.uk : : Finland : Jarkko Kemppainen - Oulu : jarkko.kemppainen@nokia.com : : France : Pierre Blazevic : blazevic@robot.uvsq.fr : : Germany : Gerhard Kraetzschmar - Ulm (Vice co-chair) : gkk@acm.org : : Andreas Zell - Tuebingen : zell@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.de : : Raul Rojas - Berlin : rojas@inf.fu-berlin.de : : Italy : Enrico Pagello - Padua (Vice co-chair) : epv@dei.unipd.it : : Giovanni Adorni - Parma (Workshop) : adorni@ce.unipr.it : : Netherlands : Frans Groen - Amsterdam (chair) : groen@wins.uva.nl : : Portugal : Pedro Lima (Middle Size) : pal@isr.ist.utl.pt : : Russia : Leo Stankevich - St.Petersburg : stankevitch@phtf.stu.neva.ru : : Spain : Josep De la Rosa - Girona : peplluis@eia.udg.es : : Sweden : Silvia Coradeschi - Linkoping : silco@ida.liv.se : : Advisors : : USA : Manuela Veloso - CMU : mmv@school.coral.cs.cmu.edu : : Peter Stone - CMU : pstone@research.att.com : : Japan : Hiroaki Kitano : kitano@symbio.jst.go.jp : : Asada : asada@er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp : : Local Organizers : : Dr. H.J.W. Spoelder - Free University Amsterdam (Chairman/Simulator) : hs@nat.vu.nl : : Dr. ir. B.J.A. Krose - University of Amsterdam (Education) : krose@wins.uva.nl : : Dr. ir. P.P. Jonker - Delft University of Technology (Middle Size) : P.P.Jonker@PH.TN.TUDelft.NL : : Dr. S. Stramigioli - Delft University of Technology (Small Size) : S.Stramigioli@ITS.TUDelft.NL : : Dr. W. van de Hoek - University of Utrecht (Workshop) : wiebe@cs.uu.nl : : ********************************************************************* : : 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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