<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">==============Apologies for duplicate messages ===============</span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span class=""><br></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span class="">Call</span></span> for <span><span class="">Participation</span></span></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 <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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 <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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 <span><span class="">participate</span></span> in the RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation League, <span><span class="">3D</span></span> competition, which will take place July 17-22, 2015, in Hefei, China. If you are interested in <span><span class="">participating</span></span>, 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">##########################################<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px">Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px">##########################################<br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. The
waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees
for team members.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px"><br></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">7. Apply for the Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams ? (Yes/No)</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 <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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 <span><span class="">participate</span></span> in the <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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 <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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/%7Esv08aav/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 style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 <span><span class="">participants</span></span> of a competition may be from the same country.</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Symbol" lang="EN-US">·<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 <span><span class="">participate</span></span> in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from the same institute to <span><span class="">participate</span></span> in different competitions, e.g. 2D and <span><span class="">3D</span></span> 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:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation <span><span class="">3D</span></span></span></div>