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EvoRobocode Competition
to be held as part of the
2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
July 7-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organized by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012
*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 [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] by June 22, 2012.
*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 22th, 2012
Results will be announced during GECCO 2012 (July 07-11, 2012)
*Further Information*
https://sites.google.com/site/evorobocode/
http://groups.google.com/group/evorobocode
http://robocode.sourceforge.net/
http://robowiki.net/
