<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear,<br><br>We have only 2 teams for the Infra-structure Competition. Thus we are reopening the call for participation to this
competition only.<br>
<br>In case we do not have enough competitors, we are going to be forced
to cancel this competition. Please those teams interested in
participate to this challenge, please send an email to <a href="mailto:faraji.farshid@gmail.com" target="_blank">faraji.farshid@gmail.com</a> and <a href="mailto:gnardin@gmail.com" target="_blank">gnardin@gmail.com</a> with the subject '2015 Pre-registration Infra-Structure Competition [TEAM_NAME]'.<br><br></div><i>IMPORTANT: The new deadline is <b>March 27th, 2015</b>.</i><br><div>
<b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>Infrastructure
Competition</span></b>
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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>
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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">Teams and participants
should address topics including, but not limited to</span></p>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium 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:"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 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 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 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 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><br>Any question or extra information, please let us know.<br>Best Regards,<br clear="all"><br>--<br>RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation</div></div>