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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">RoboCup 2014
Soccer Simulation 3D League</span></p>
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(João Pessoa, Brazil)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.robocup2014.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.robocup2014.org/</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">The RoboCup
Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity to experiment
with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It
facilitates experimenting with different learning and optimization techniques
by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11
players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot
coordination methodologies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">We would
like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation League,
3D competition, which will take place July 20-24, 2014, in João Pessoa, Brazil.
If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team and
follow the procedure as outlined below.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Team
Pre-Registration Deadline: <b>January 31, 2014 (23:59 UTC)</b></span></p>
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Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: February 14, 2014 (23:59 UTC)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Qualified
Teams Announcement: March 1, 2014</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Pre-Registration</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">All teams
who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31 of January, 2014).
To pre-register, send an E-Mail to <b><a href="mailto:lpreis@dsi.uminho.pt"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">lpreis@dsi.uminho.pt</span></a>
(cc: <a href="mailto:msimoes@uneb.br">msimoes@uneb.br</a>) </b>with the subject <b>'2014 3DSim Pre-registration
TEAM_NAME'</b>. The E-Mail should contain the following information:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">1.
Team-Name:</span></p>
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Team-Leader:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">4. Country/ies:</span></p>
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Affiliation(s):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">6. Number of
team members:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">You should
receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a few days of
submission.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Qualification
is based on a team's current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and
scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years, cooperation in
the 3D mailing list and development of the simulator.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">In RoboCup 2014,
up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D simulation competition. The top three
teams from RoboCup 2013 (Apollo, UT Austin Villa and FC Portugal) are
automatically qualified after pre-registering their teams and submitting an
appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other 21 teams will be selected
through a qualification process.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">The
qualification deadline is <b>14 February 2014</b>. The OC does not accept
qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the
pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">1. Team
Description Paper (TDP)</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">The TDP
should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the team. It
should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in addition to
explicitly specifying what you have used from others' efforts (including, but
not limited to, any source code released by other teams or their scientific
work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on their own work, so
failing to acknowledge the work of others could result in an immediate
disqualification. The length of the TDP has to be at least four (4) pages and should
not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0" target="_blank"><span style lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">. Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document,
with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. ‘<b>teamname_TDP.pdf’</b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">2. A List of
Publications and Achievements</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US"> on previous
RoboCup Symposia and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please
do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please
also include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous
years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include
references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential.
Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of your
team in the filename, i.e. ‘<b>teamname_list.pdf</b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">3. Binary</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">All teams
should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use these binaries to
play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the simulator used during the
2013 competitions held in Eindhoven (<a href="http://www.robocup2013.org/3d-simulation-league/">http://www.robocup2013.org/3d-simulation-league/</a>).
These rules can be found at: <a href="http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf">http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Submitted
binaries should adhere to the following:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Two scripts should be included: a start up
script, called start.sh, to run a full team of agents and a kill script,
called kill.sh, to fully kill all agents of the team. The requirements and
examples of these scripts can be found at the rules page given above.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">All necessary external libraries should be
included and be used locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort
to install extra libraries on the qualification systems.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">The binaries should not create any output,
be it through standard output or to files and no graphical (debugging)
interface should be used.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">The binary should be compiled for <b>64 bit</b>
systems and should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu
12.10. You may also send 32 bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to
make sure that it runs correctly on 64 bit distributions. You can assume
that basic 32 bit libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS.</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">To
summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless
system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation server
(possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix errors.
When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have
to resubmit their material, before the deadline of <b>14 February, 2014</b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Please put
all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball
name <b>teamname.tgz</b> and E-Mail it to <b><a href="mailto:lpreis@dsi.uminho.pt"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">lpreis@dsi.uminho.pt</span></a> (cc: <a href="mailto:msimoes@uneb.br">msimoes@uneb.br</a>) </b>with the subject: '<b>2014
3DSim Qualification TEAM_NAME</b>'. If everything went well you will receive a
confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days,
please contact the Organizing Committee.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Teams will
be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in this E-Mail. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Also, the
following general qualification limitations will be considered:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">One-Third-Rule: The so called
One-Third-Rule rule states that only up to 1/3 of the participants of a
competition may be from the same country.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The
One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states that only one team from each university
or research institute is allowed to participate in a competition. Note that
it is okay for different teams from the same institute to participate in
different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D soccer.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">If you
encounter any problem sending you qualification materials please don't hesitate
to contact the OC.<br><br></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">Best
Regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Luis Paulo Reis & Marco Simões</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">On Behalf of
Organizing Committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New"" lang="EN-US">RoboCup 2014
Soccer Simulation 3D</span></p>
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