<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Call for Participation</span></b><b style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span></b><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">IranOpen 2017 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League <span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">April 5<sup>th</sup> – 7<sup>th</sup>, 2017, Tehran, Iran<span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://2017.iranopen.ir/"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">http://2017.iranopen.ir/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ABOUT ROBOCUP RESCUE AGENT SIMULATION LEAGUE</span>:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"></span>Natural disasters are major adverse events that cause large-scale economic, human, and environmental losses. They are usually difficult to predict and it is even more challenging to prevent them from happening. These characteristics demand disaster management strategies to be in place for the mitigation of damaging consequences when a disaster happen.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">RoboCup Rescue Simulation is a Large Multi-Agent System which its aim is to manage the disaster when an earthquake happens. It’s main purpose is to provide emergency decision support by integration of disaster information, prediction and planning. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The mission of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is to promote research and development in this socially significant domain at various levels.<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">It is one of the prominent systems for AI and Multi-Agent researches.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Agent Simulation Competition</span>:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span>The competition involves primarily evaluating the performance of agent teams developed using exclusively <b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:red;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ADK Framework</span></b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> (</span><a href="https://github.com/RCRS-ADF/RCRS-ADF"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://github.com/RCRS-ADF/RCRS-ADF</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,57,27);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) on different maps of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation (RCRS) platform (</span><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/roborescue"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://sourceforge.net/projects/roborescue</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,57,27);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:red;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">All participating teams MUST implement their code using the ADK framework.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The documentation of the ADK Framework is available at </span><a href="http://aitech.ac.jp/maslab/rcrswiki"><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,57,27);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://aitech.ac.jp/maslab/rcrswiki</span><span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(237,57,27);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The participation on the Agent Simulation competition requires the submission of a Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the strategies implemented on the agent's code.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">PRE-REGISTRATION</span>:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"></span>The pre-registration deadline is January 22, 2017, and must be electronically done through the website: <a href="http://2017.iranopen.ir/"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">http://2017.iranopen.ir/</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"><span> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Workshop</span>:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span>There are plans<span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">to</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">hold</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">a</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">workshop</span><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:cmr10">about the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. The workshop aims to disseminate the knowledge about the RoboCup Rescue Simulation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:cmr10">League and the simulator used in the competition. </span><span style="font-family:cmr10"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:cmr10">As regarding that ADK Framework is </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">obligatory</span> in RoboCup 2017, we feel that holding this workshop about ADK Framework will be useful for participants in order to better preparation for RoboCup 2017.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The ADK framework has been developed by a group of the Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan led by Nobuhiro Ito and has as the main purpose create a development environment to facilitate the development of agent teams integrated to the RoboCup Rescue Simulator Platform. The framework has been released recently, but it has the potential to help the league to overcome several of its issues.</span><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:18.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Accommodation</span><br>
</b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">RoboCup IranOpen organizing committee makes arrangements for all the international participants. Further details will be sent to the participating teams.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:18.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Transportation</span><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">RoboCup IranOpen organizing committee makes arrangements for all the international participants. Further details will be sent to the participating teams.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:18.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;box-sizing:border-box"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Travel Support</span><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">RoboCup IranOpen organizing committee offers travel support for international participants. Teams who wish to receive the support should contact us via </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font size="4"><a href="mailto:info@iranopen.ir">info@iranopen.ir</a></font><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Farshid Faraji<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">2017 IranOpen RoboCup Rescue Simulation League <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"yanone kaffeesatz",serif;color:rgb(71,79,81)"><span> </span></span></p>
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