[GECCO 2013] EvoRobocode Competition CFP

[Daniele Loiacono]

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EvoRobocode Competition

                   to be held as part of the

    2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2013) 

                    July 6-10, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                   Organized by ACM SIGEVO

               http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2013

*Goal*

EvoRobocode challenges you to apply Evolutionary Computation to design a 

competitive robot tank for the Robocode game!

Robocode is a programming game, where the goal is developing in Java a 

robot tank to fight against other tanks. Battles can be either run in 

real-time and displayed on the screen or run in a batch mode without 

visualization.

Robocode also features an on-line tournament system to rank developed 

tanks.

To make the competition among robots more fair, each tank belongs to 

different categories based on its code size. Accordingly, only robots 

with a similar degree of complexity are allowed to battle together.

*Rules*

Each team can enter the competition with one robot tank.

Robot tanks are Java program developed using the APIs provided with the 

standard distribution of Robocode (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/)

Robocode, allows different category of robot tanks based on the size of 

the code, but for EvoRobocode we accept only tanks in the Nano bot 

category (http://darkcanuck.net/rumble/Rankings?game=nanorumble), i.e., 

robot tanks with a code size not larger than 250 bytes (where  the code 

size has to be computed as described at: http://goo.gl/IbSnU).

Each entrant is free to use any tool, approach or method desired to 

develop his own robot tank as long as the final result is a valid robot 

tank according to the RoboRumble specifications 

(http://robowiki.net/wiki/RoboRumble/Starting_With_RoboRumble), i.e., it 

must be possible to submit the entry to the RoboRumble tournament without 

any modification.

*Submission*

A submission to EvoRobocode involves two different steps.

First, each entrant has to submit its own entry to the RoboRumble 1-vs-1 

tournament (instructions to enter the RoboRumble are available at 

http://goo.gl/wEw69).

Second, entrants have to submit to evoro...@geccocompetitions.com the

following materials:

  1. the name used to submit the entry to the RoboRumble 1-vs-1 tournament

  2. a package containing the robot tank and including the source code

  3. a brief writeup (2 pages max) describing the entry and the approach 

     used to develop it 

All submissions should be sent to evoro...@geccocompetitions.com by 

June 21, 2013.

*Scoring*

Each entry will be scored by a panel of judges according to the following 

schema:

 - 50% Performance, i.e., on ranking in RoboRumble tournament

 - 30% Relevance, i.e., to what extent EC was relevant in the development

          process of the robot

 - 20% Novelty, i.e., how novel is the approach used

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline: June 21, 2013

Results will be announced during GECCO 2013 (July 06-10, 2013)

*Further Information*

http://evorobocode.geccocompetitions.com

http://groups.google.com/group/evorobocode

http://robocode.sourceforge.net/

http://robowiki.net/