IMPORTANT: Final Competition Signup and Info

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Dear IPPC 2014 Competitors,

COMPETITION SIGNUP:

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Please signup for a final competition time slot next week (Tues-Fri):

  http://doodle.com/s4mk5ig66tav3cdb

Please contact Marek via email to arrange a time for him to start your EC2 Server and send you the IP address, port, and link to final competition instances (same format as that distributed in IPPC 2011).  Please choose a starting time between 7am-midnight in Toronto's time zone.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

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- A planner freeze takes effect June 6 (UTC, 12:01am).

- No one objected to Andrey's request, so all competitors should send Marek and me an archive of their planner's source code by June 6 (UTC, 12:01am).  *After* we have received your source code, we will send you a link to the competition domains and first instance.  You must maintain a list of all changes to your planner after this time, which we will verify.

- Some *minor* changes have been made to the RDDLSim Server for the final competition... these should not adversely affect anyone's client, but please update and recompile to check:

... The Server now sends some *additional* timing and reward info (thanks to Thomas Keller for these changes), see the updated protocol:

    https://code.google.com/p/rddlsim/source/browse/trunk/PROTOCOL.txt

    The existing message content has not changed, only some additional content has been added for diagnostic purposes.

... The Server now randomizes repeat sessions for the same instance in a reproducible way (thanks again to Thomas).

... The Client IP/Host name are now recorded in the Server log file (all competitors must use an EC2 instance which will be verified by this IP/Host entry).

Thanks,

Scott, Marek, and Jesse

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Addendum: when you send your source code on June 6, please also send the command line parameters (or other manually configurable parameters -- e.g., those specified in a config file) that you will use for the final competition.  The final domain / first instance release is purely for parser (and other) debugging purposes, not for parameter tuning.

Thanks,

Scott

[Florian Geißer]

Hi Scott,
Thomas and I would like to know if we got it right that the freeze is in ~3 hours from now on (which should be 0:01 AM UTC).
Additionally, could it be that the current (non-member) version of the rddl server is not compiling? Java is complaining that util.DocUtils is not available. Unfortunately Thomas is on vacation and can't check out his svn, so we currently can not test the newest version, but since I use Thomas' version of the server I think everything should work. Just wanted to drop a note that we could not test the newest server version.
Greetings,
Florian

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[Scott Sanner]

Hi Florian / all,

> Thomas and I would like to know if we got it right that the freeze is in ~3 hours from now on (which should be 0:01 AM UTC). 

Yes, this is correct.  The deadline has now passed.

Indeed util/DocUtils.java was missing, I just committed it.  Sorry for this oversight.

**All competitors: the latest rddlsim update will be used in the competition, so please update and verify that your planner is working correctly with it.  Changes were minor, but still good to check.

Thanks,

Scott