Since RoboCup 2004 we participate in both, the “classical” 2D-Simulation League as well as in the new 3D-competition. Last year, our team “AT Humboldt”, placed second at German Open while “AT Humboldt 3D” placed 8th at RoboCup World Championship in Osaka. For ten years we use our soccer agents as a research testbed for longterm deliberation and realtime reasoning, cooperation and coordination i...

The aim of this study was to determine the differences in performance indicators for top senior male basketball players, with respect to several independent variables: position in the team, total situation-related efficiency, age, playing experience and the time spent on the court within the game and during championship season. The final sample of participants was selected from all teams in A-1...

The Robocup 97 competition provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the techniques and methods of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and computer vision. On a soccer field the core capabilities a player must have are to navigate the field, track the ball and other agents, recognize the difference between agents, collaborate with other agents, and hit the ball in the correct dire...

Research Question Contemporary football (soccer) is a competitive industry. Some clubs have enacted new roles, such as the Sporting Director, to gain advantage through effective recruitment of non-playing staff. This qualitative research examines strategies Directors lens network theory.Research Methods An empirical study was conducted, involving semi-structured interviews with 25 in England (E...

Introduction On February 29, 2004, the college football Bowl Championship Series (BCS) announced a proposal to add a fifth game to the “BCS bowls” to improve access for midmajor teams ordinarily denied invitations to these lucrative postseason games. Although still subject to final approval, this agreement is expected to be instituted with the new BCS contract just prior to the 2006 season. The...

The probability of winning a game in major league baseball depends on various factors relating to team strength including the past performance of the two teams, the batting ability of the two teams and the starting pitchers. These three factors change over time. We combine these factors by adopting contribution parameters, and include a home field advantage variable in forming a two-stage Bayes...

This paper introduces Soccer League Competition (SLC) algorithm as a new optimization technique for solving nonlinear systems of equations. Fundamental ideas of the method are inspired from soccer leagues and based on the competitions among teams and players. Like other meta-heuristic methods, the proposed technique starts with an initial population. Population individuals called players are in...

The National Hockey League of North America is the premier ice hockey league in the world. It consists of 30 teams that play 82 games each a season, for a total of 1230 games across all teams. Determining a schedule for games is a very difficult task as there is a number of different, often conflicting factors that must be addressed, such as travel distance, fairness, and revenue. A multiobject...

the aim of the present study was to compare the effect of coach change on team performance in iran football premier league and five major european leagues. the design of study was quantitative and the research method was causal comparative. the population of the research included all 340 teams present in iran football premier league and selected european leagues (uk premier league, spain la lig...