[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup2020 Soccer Simulation 2D - Second Call for Participation
Hidehisa Akiyama
akym at fukuoka-u.ac.jp
Thu Jan 2 03:42:22 EST 2020
Second Call for Participation
RoboCup2020 Soccer Simulation 2D League
June 25 - June 28, 2020 (Bordeaux, France)
https://2020.robocup.org/
The call for participation document can be found at
http://bit.ly/rc2020ssim2dcfp
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# Introduction
The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D is one of the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer
competitions. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two
teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to
play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its
stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and
educational tool for multiagent systems, artificial intelligence and
machine learning.
We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2020 Soccer
Simulation League, 2D competition, which will take place June 23 - 29 2020,
in Bordeaux, France. All teams need to pre-register, then have to submit
qualification materials. Please see below in detail.
# Important Dates
- Pre-registration Deadline: March 1, 2020 (Sunday) - 23:59 UTC
- Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: March 15, 2020 (Sunday) -
23:59 UTC
- Qualification Notification: March 30, 2020
# Pre-registration
All teams wishing to qualify need to pre-register via the submission system
before March 1, 2020:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcssim2d2020
The pre-registration requires only to fill the information of team members
and the name of team. The “Author” field requires the name, affiliation and
contact information of all team members. The “Title” field should be the
name of your team. And, please write at least 3 words representing your
research field in the “Keywords” field. The “Abstract” field will be used
in the qualification process, please fill dummy words at this time.
# Qualification Materials
Pre-registered teams have to submit three qualification materials before
March 15, 2020:
- Team Description Paper
- Log Files
- Server Document
## Team Description Paper
Teams have to submit a team description paper (TDP) (in English) through
the submission system:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcssim2d2020
The TDP must have a length of 4 to 8 pages in Springer LNCS style and has
to be submitted as PDF (to be named ‘TDP_TeamName.pdf’). Please note: A
team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate!
The TDP should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the
team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team
base code and description how the team is different from the base code;
originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally
results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related
work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work
with related work developed by other teams).
Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific
efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external
knowledge (ideas, code, agent base or the like) to build upon. If a team
did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be
outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members
have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of
another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external
knowledge is used but not referenced, explained and differentiated from in
the TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this
and next year's RoboCup.
## Log Files
In order to assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific
efforts in the context of game play, teams have to submit two logfiles (see
below). Your logfiles have to be stored online and input only the link(s)
in the “Abstract” field of submission system.
1. Logfile against one of the top teams of last year's RoboCup:
http://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/2D/binaries/RoboCup/2019/Elimination/
2. Logfile against the latest agent2d:
https://osdn.net/dl/rctools/agent2d-3.1.1.tar.gz
Logfiles comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version =
5) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These logfiles
have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and
demonstrate the team's characteristics.
## RoboCup Soccer Simulator Server Document
Teams have to submit a part of documentation of the soccer server by Pull
Request in GitHub. This action is aimed at introducing the league to those
who are interested in the participation but do not have a good information
source. We need to update the server manual because the current
documentation is still under migration and construction from the old manual:
https://rcsoccersim.github.io/manual/ (New manual page)
https://github.com/rcsoccersim/manual (Git repository)
https://rcsoccersim.github.io/rcssserver-manual-20030211.pdf (Old
manual)
Teams have to migrate at least one incomplete section from the old manual
or have to write new (sub)section(s) about new features not described in
the old manual. Teams need to clone the git repository, then update
something and send Pull Request with the team name. If the submitted
document conflicts with other teams’ ones or is required to refine, the
Pull Request may be refused. But, your Pull Request will be surely referred
for the qualification.
It should be noted that the documentation is on the official soccer server,
not any soccer client libraries provided by teams (e.g., agent2d,
wrighteagle, etc.).
# General Qualification Rules
In RoboCup 2020 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D
competitions. Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, and the
team's current performance based on provided logfiles.There are several
general rules on which the qualification processes as well as the
tournaments are based:
- Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its
members will be banned from participation for this and next year's RoboCup.
The term plagiarism comprises any use of external knowledge without proper
referencing, i.e. copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts or language
in general and presenting them as their own. This applies for Team
Description Papers as well as logfiles, team code and binaries. All kinds
of licenses and copyright have to be respected. This applies for the
qualification process as well as the RoboCup tournaments. If suspicious
behavior found, Committee members may request to review the team’s source
code. Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing
plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be in
the middle of the tournament.
- No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for RoboCup2020, but is not able to
participate, it has to cancel its participation ONE MONTH before the
RoboCup2020’s final registration deadline for the TEAM (by an email to
Fabian Sommer <fabsels at web.de> and Hidehisa Akiyama <akym at
fukuoka-u.ac.jp>, in order to give the next-ranked team the chance to take
its place. If a team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and
its members will be banned for RoboCup2021 competition.
- Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic fairness in
any other way, it has to face penalties as well.
# Qualification Results
Qualification results will be announced on March 30, 2020.
The TDPs will be peer reviewed by experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League
nominated by the organizing committee. The reviewers will evaluate the
qualification materials and rank the teams. The ranks will be averaged into
a global ranking and the top teams on that ranking will be qualified for
the RoboCup 2D simulation competition. Please note that the submitted
materials of all qualified teams will be made publicly available during the
announcement of qualification results.
# Remote Paticipation
A small number of teams will be allowed to participate in the competition
remotely if they pay the team registration fee and two faculty registration
fees. The team wishing remote participation have to apply to the “Abstract”
field during the pre-registration. If many teams wish to participate
remotely, the organizing committee will make a decision based on the
qualification ranking.
Please note that the organizing committee does not have any obligation to
fix any troubles of the remote teams: transferring the source codes from
the team to the committee, debugging the team's source codes, preparing the
start scripts, and so on. It should be also noted that the remote teams
will have some disadvantages compared to those teams who physically
participate at the competition site. The disadvantages may include the
binary update during the competition, log file availability, entrust to the
executive committee in case of voting during the roadmap discussion, etc.
If the team is qualified as a remote participation team but the
registration fee is not paid correctly, the team will be disqualified and
marked as a ‘no-show’ team.
# Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee
for the 2020 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major
leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and all of whose
team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup
competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any
waiver of fees for team members.
# Resources
- RoboCup Soccer Simulation League: https://ssim.robocup.org/
- The RoboCup Soccer Simulator
https://rcsoccersim.github.io/
https://github.com/rcsoccersim
- Mailing list
- Simulation: https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-sim
- WorldWide:
https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-worldwide
- RoboCup Competitions archive:
https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/2D/
- Information for Authors of Springer Computer Science Proceedings:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
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Best Regards,
The Organizing Committee of RoboCup2020 Soccer Simulation 2D League
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