<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Dear all,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Please consider the following update from RoboCup Federation:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">UPDATE: Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">---------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The RoboCup Federation is pleased to introduce a waiver of the team fee for the 2015 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition.&nbsp; The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Best Regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Farshid Faraji</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">#############################################</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for Participation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Agent&amp;Multi-agent Challenge and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Infrastructure Competitions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://www.robocup2015.org/" target="_blank"><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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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:&nbsp;<i>Agent&amp; Multi-agent Challenge</i>,&nbsp;<i>Infrastructure and Presentation</i><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span>&nbsp;</span><i>Competition</i>. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team as described in Section 3.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Agent &amp; Multi-agent Challenge Competition</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Agent &amp; Multi-agent Challenge competition is composed of two different stages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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" target="_blank"><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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" target="_blank"><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" target="_blank"><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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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="14ae29630e970c67__GoBack" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Infrastructure Competition</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><blockquote style="font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Improve the RoboCup Rescue server&rsquo; stability;</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Presentation Competition</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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 &amp; Multi-agent competition are considered to be in this competition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PRE-REGISTRATION</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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)">&nbsp;</span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">with the subject &ldquo;2015 Pre-registration&nbsp;<b>[TEAM_NAME]</b>&rdquo;. The email should contain the following information:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><blockquote style="font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team name:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team leader:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Contact email address:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Name of the Institution:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">City:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Country:</span></p><p 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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 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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</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 &amp; 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The pre-registration deadline is&nbsp;<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/" target="_blank"><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">QUALIFICATION</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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" target="_blank"><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">&nbsp;<b><i>February 14th, 2015&nbsp;</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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;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:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Important Dates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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">&nbsp;<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;font-size:13px;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">&nbsp;&nbsp;February 14th, 2015&nbsp;</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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Team Qualification Notification:&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size:10pt">&nbsp;<b><i>March 10th, 2015&nbsp;</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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;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;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial">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&nbsp;Agent Simulation&nbsp;<span style="font-family:Arial">Executive</span><span style="font-family:Arial">,</span>&nbsp;Technical and Organizing Committees</p></div>