More Support for Changing Refereeing Procedure

Elite Refereeing Performance:Developing a Modelfor Sport Science Support

To identify a framework for referee training and selection, based on the key areas of effective performance, we conducted content analyses on Rugby Football Union referee assessor reports, referee training materials, performance profi les from a group of English premier league referees, and a review of published research on sports offi ciating. The Cornerstones Performance Model of Refereeing e...

Refereeing the public health.

Between January 2009 and October 2013, 49 states and the District of Columbia passed laws focusing on mitigating the consequences of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in organized youth sports. Using historical, contextual, and empirical methods, this Article describes the content, goals, and structure of youth sports TBI laws, while hypothesizing about their underlying legislative logic and long...

On refereeing computer science

Computer science is a diverse, exciting, and rapidly expanding discipline. Inevitably the research community pulls itself in different directions, sometimes with the result that visionary research may be under-valued. This paper explores systemic issues of general applicability with the aim of understanding and hence valuing the diversity.

More support for symbolic disintegration

Event-based automated refereeing for robot soccer

The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is a robot soccer game with robots that play on a customized field with overhead cameras. The majority of the research effort to date has been on the performance of the autonomous teams in aspects of motion planning and team strategy. However, another critical component of a robot game is the referee. In current SSL games, refereeing is done by humans, who us...