Going in for Competitions

COMPETITIONS Robot Competitions : What Did We Learn ?

Competitions for Care and Caregiving

Randomness in Competitions

We study the effects of randomness on competitions based on an elementary random process in which there is a finite probability that a weaker team upsets a stronger team. We apply this model to sports leagues and sports tournaments, and compare the theoretical results with empirical data. Our model shows that single-elimination tournaments are efficient but unfair: the number of games is propor...

Decision Validation for Agents in Trading Competitions

This research focuses on answering the question: How do we validate the decisions of autonomous trading agents? We start with a holistic approach, exploring evaluation techniques for measuring the performance of competitive autonomous agents during controlled competitive simulations. We focus on cases where the number of opponents is small such as in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Cha...

Plagiarism in game programming competitions

On June 28, 2011 the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) disqualified and banned the program RYBKA and its programmer Vasik Rajlich from previous and future World Computer Chess Championships (WCCC). The ICGA has conducted an investigation into allegations that, in the chess program RYBKA, two other programs were plagiarized: CRAFTY and FRUIT. It was found that the allegations were ...