<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">=============Apologies for duplicate messages ===============</span><div><br style="font-size:13px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Call for Participation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">##########################################</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation 3D League</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">July 17-22, 2015 (Hefei, China)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.robocup2015.org/" target="_blank">http://www.robocup2015.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">##########################################</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span 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 using 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="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place July 17-22, 2015, in Hefei, China. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">########</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Schedule</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">########</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Team Pre-Registration Deadline: <b>February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015 (23:59 UTC)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: <b>March 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015 (23:59 UTC)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Qualified Teams Announcement: <b>March 30<sup>th</sup>, 2015</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px">################</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Pre-Registration</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">################</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to <b><a href="mailto:marco.c.simoes@gmail.com" target="_blank">marco.c.simoes@gmail.com</a></b> (cc: <b><a href="mailto:adailton.junior@gmail.com" target="_blank">adailton.junior@gmail.com</a></b> and <b><span style="background-image:none;background-repeat:repeat"><a href="mailto:fangbf@hfut.edu.cn" target="_blank">fangbf@hfut.edu.cn</a></span></b>) with the subject <i>'2015 3DSim Pre-registration <b>TEAM_NAME'</b></i>. The E-Mail should contain the following information:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">1. Team-Name:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">2. Team-Leader:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">3. E-Mail:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">4. Country/ies:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">5. Affiliation(s):</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">6. Number of team members:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">You should receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a few days of submission.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">#############</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Qualification</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">#############</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">In RoboCup 2015, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D simulation competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2015 (UT Austin Villa, Robocanes and Magma Offenburg) 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The qualification deadline is <b>March 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015</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><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="font-size:13px"><b><span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">Team Description Paper (TDP)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span 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 must be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style: </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. Please submit the TDP <b>only as a PDF document</b>, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. ‘<b>teamname_TDP.pdf</b>’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><b><span lang="EN-US">2. A List of Publications and Achievements</span></b><span 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 <b>as a PDF document</b>, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. ‘<b>teamname_list.pdf</b>’.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><b><span lang="EN-US">3. Binary</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span 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 2014 competitions held in João Pessoa (</span><a href="http://www.robocup2014.org/?page_id=928" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.robocup2014.org/?page_id=928</span></a><span lang="EN-US">). These rules can be found at: </span><a href="http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and the changes for 2014 at: </span><a href="http://wiki.robocup.org/images/0/0f/RoboCupSimulationLeague3D_ruleChanges2014.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://wiki.robocup.org/images/0/0f/RoboCupSimulationLeague3D_ruleChanges2014.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">Two scripts should be included</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: a start up script, called <i>start.sh</i>, to run a full team of agents and a kill script, called <i>kill.sh</i>, 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></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">All necessary external libraries should be included and be used locally by the binary</span></b><span lang="EN-US">. The OC will not make an effort to install extra libraries on the qualification systems.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">The binaries should not create any output</span></b><span lang="EN-US">, be it through standard output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> and should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as <b>Ubuntu 12.04</b>. 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. <b>To summarize:</b> 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. <b>The OC will not try to fix errors</b>. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of <b>March 15<sup>th</sup>, 2015</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Please <b>put all qualification material in a folder with your team name</b>, create a tarball named <b>teamname.tgz</b> and E-Mail it to <b><a href="mailto:marco.c.simoes@gmail.com" target="_blank">marco.c.simoes@gmail.com</a></b> (cc: <b><a href="mailto:adailton.junior@gmail.com" target="_blank">adailton.junior@gmail.com</a></b> and <b><span style="background-image:none;background-repeat:repeat"><a href="mailto:fangbf@hfut.edu.cn" target="_blank">fangbf@hfut.edu.cn</a></span></b>) with the subject: '<i>2015 3DSim Qualification <b>TEAM_NAME</b></i>'. If everything works finel you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please don't hesitate to contact the OC.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in this E-Mail. The following general qualification limitations will also be considered:</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">One-Third-Rule</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: 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></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US">One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: 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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">Marco Simões and Adailton Junior</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US">On Behalf of Organizing Committee</span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8666667938232px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation 3D</span><br clear="all"></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8666667938232px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div>
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