<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for Participation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">RoboCup 2015 Rescue Simulation League</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Agent&Multi-agent Challenge and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Infrastructure Competitions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">July 17-23, 2015(Hefe</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">i</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,
China)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.robocup2015.org/"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.robocup2015.org/</span></a><u><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation league is inviting
interested teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2015 competition held
in Hefei, China.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Rescue Simulation league will be held in three types of
competitions: <i>Agent& Multi-agent
Challenge</i>, <i>Infrastructure and
Presentation</i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><i>Competition</i>.
If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team as
described in Section 3.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Agent
& Multi-agent Challenge Competition</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Agent &
Multi-agent Challenge competition is composed of two different stages.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">FIRST STAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In the first stage, the competition involves evaluating competing
agent coordination algorithms on different maps of the RoboCup Rescue
simulation platform. Specifically, it involves evaluating coordination
algorithms enabling teams of Ambulances, Police Forces, and Fire Brigades to rescue
as many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in cities where an
earthquake has just happened.Teams have to individually achieve a score on
chosen maps which represent different situations (e.g., civilians and fires,
major fire in one corner of a city, blocked roads to refuges, damaged platoon
agents, fire maps, civilian maps where only fires need to be extinguished or civilians
need be saved respectively) and this will determine how they compare with other
teams. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SECOND STAGE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In the second state, the competition consists of demonstrating
efficient algorithms for coordinating large teams of agents solving one or more
of the pre-defined challenge tasks in the Multi-agent Coordination Benchmark (RMAS)
platform (</span><a href="https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">). The goal of the challenge is to provide
scenarios relevant to large-scale urban search and rescue and disaster mitigation.These
will include performance metrics to assess technologies in the areasof
distributed and centralized multi-agent task allocation, team formation, and
path planning. The challenge comes with an open source policy designed to
encourage collaboration and the dissemination of ideas and algorithms.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">FORMAT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The teams need to implement a code to compete on the Agent
RoboCup Rescue platform (</span><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/roborescue"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://sourceforge.net/projects/roborescue</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) and another code to compete on the
Multi-agent Coordination Benchmark platform (</span><a href="https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">). The competition will be carried out in rounds
and at each round an Agent and a Multi-agent simulation will be executed with
the score being the summary of both simulations results. The teams with the
highest scores in all the maps are then selected to move up the various rounds
of the tournament, which is composed of two preliminaries round, one semi-final
round and one final round.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Multi-agent
simulation challenge envisions the distributed and centralized assignment of
agents to targets. These targets could be either fires to extinguish or buried
civilians to rescue.The challenge in this task is to distribute agents among
the targetsin that to minimize the overall damage, i.e., either reducing the
number of burning buildings or increasing the number of rescued civilians.<a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Infrastructure
Competition</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of already
existent tools and simulators of disaster management problems in general. The
intent is the evaluation of possible enhancements and expansions of the basic
RoboCup Rescue simulator based on the new ideas and concepts proposed in these
tools and simulators. The evaluation will be done in a panel and a winner
chosen accordingly to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the
tool or simulator and the presentation. The best tool will be selected for
further integration with the simulation platform.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">DUTY OF RELEASE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In addition to the submission of a Team Description Paper (TDP),
teams interested in participating in the Infrastructure competition must release
their source code as an open-source project before the competition. Even though
a team is accepted to participate in the competition, if it does not release
the source code before the infrastructure competition day, it will be disqualified
and it will not be allowed to participate in the competition, and thus it will
not be evaluated and considered for winning the prize.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Teams and participants
should address topics including, but not limited to</span></p>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Increase of the number of participants in the RoboCup Rescue
league;</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Provide agent development kits that render easy the
participation of new comers;</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions;</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Improve the RoboCup Rescue server’ stability;</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators.</span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presentation
Competition</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The aim of this competition is sharing the knowledge of the
teams and improving the academic research aspects of the league. It consists in
a detailed presentation of the coordination algorithm used to coordinate agents
in the Agent RoboCup Rescue simulation platform. Each team will have about 20
minutes to present advances and main contributions to the league. The
presentation will be evaluated by a panel and the winner chosen accordingly to
a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the proposed improvement
and the presentation.This competition is mandatory part of whole competition
and all teams in Agent & Multi-agent competition are considered to be in
this competition.</span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PRE-REGISTRATION</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For the
pre-registration you need to send an email to</span><a href="mailto:faraji.farshid@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">faraji.farshid@gmail.com</span></a><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"> </span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">with the subject “2015
Pre-registration <b>[TEAM_NAME]</b>”. The email
should contain the following information:</span></p>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team name:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team leader:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Contact email address:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Name of the Institution:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">City:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Country:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Estimated size of team coming to the venue:</span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Competition(s)the team wants to participate:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[ ] Agent & Multi-Agent Challenge competition (Including
Presentation competition)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:36pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[ ] Infrastructure competition</span></p></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The pre-registration
deadline is <b><i>January 31th, 2015</i></b></span>. No qualification materials
are required at this stage of the competition. A list of pre-registered teams
will be published at <a href="http://roborescue.sourceforge.net/"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://roborescue.sourceforge.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">QUALIFICATION</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For qualification, each team is required to submit a Team Description
Paper (TDP) limited to 8 pages in the LNCS format (</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">) for each competition entry. Further information
about the submission procedure will be sent to the pre-registered teams and to
the mailing list at a later stage. Qualification deadline is</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> <b><i>February
14th, 2015 </i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(tentative)</span>.</i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important
Dates</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team Pre-Registration
Deadline:</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> <b><i>January
31th, 2015</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Deadline for qualification
materials:</span><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt"> February 14th, 2015 </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(tentative)</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team Qualification
Notification: </span><span style="font-size:10pt"> <b><i>March 10th, 2015 </i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">(tentative)</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We may update these
dates if we receive new information about schedule from RCF.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px">We hope to welcome you all at Hefei.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:13px;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:13px;direction:ltr">The RoboCup 2015 Rescue Agent Simulation <span style="font-family:Arial">Executive</span><span style="font-family:Arial">,</span> Technical and Organizing Committees</p></div>