[robocup-worldwide] CiberMouse at DCOSS2008 Students Competition CFP

[Nuno Lau]

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               CiberMouse at DCOSS2008 Students Competition
 DCOSS 2008 - Int. Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
                            June 11, 2008
                      Santorini Island, Greece
               http://www.ieeta.pt/lse/ciberdcoss08/

The CiberMouse at DCOSS2008 is a design competition developed around a
simulated rescue mission. Each participating team is composed of 5
independent, but desirably cooperating, robotic agents that can communicate
with each other using an emulated ad-hoc wireless communication protocol
with realistic parameters. The goal is to discover, as quickly as possible,
a specific spot in a maze (target area) and bring the whole team there. The
navigation problem is simplified so that the focus is on the communication
and global team coordination.

Make your own team and participate in this challenge by programming the
rescue agents so that they can be the first ones to discover the target area
and join there! It is a great way to test your skills in developing
efficient cooperation and ad-hoc communication strategies.

The rules and tools are all available at
http://www.ieeta.pt/lse/ciberdcoss08/ so that you can start developing and
test you robotic team right now! To honor the topic of the DCOSS event,
remote participation will be allowed. This means that you will not need to
physically attend the DCOSS conference.

If you are interested, send us an email, this is important for us to plan
the event (see our contacts on the webpage!). We require a manifestation of
interest by the end of this month of April.

Stay tuned. We will keep you posted.
CiberMouse Org

PS: Please forward to interested colleagues.