This paper studies competitions with rank-based reward among a large number of teams. Within each sizable team, we consider mean-field contribution game in which team member contributes to the jump intensity common Poisson project process; across all teams, mean field competition is formulated on rank completion time, namely time process, and paid based its ranking. On layer teamwise game, thre...

Mathematics competitions, together with the people and organizations engaged with them, form an immense and vibrant global network today. This network has many roles. Competitions help identify students with higher abilities in mathematics. They motivate these students to develop their talents and to seek professional realization in science. Competitions have positive impact on education and on...

Trust modelling is a challenging issue due to the dynamic nature of distributed systems and the unreliability of self-interested agents. In this context, the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) Testbed has been used to compare trust models in two Spanish competitions in 2006 and 2007 and several international competitions. In this paper we describe the model we have presented to the Spanish compet...

Trust modelling is a challenging issue due to the dynamic nature of distributed systems and the unreliability of self-interested agents. In this context, the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) Testbed has been used to compare trust models in two Spanish competitions in 2006 and 2007 and several international competitions. In this paper we describe the model we have presented to the Spanish compet...

The main goal of the RAC project is to develop a robotic soccer team for participating in the RoboCup’s small-size league competitions. This paper is focused on two main issues: distributed control of a team of robotic soccer robots; and computer vision for tracking and localization. A distributed control architecture tailored for robotic soccer is presented, which aims at fostering cooperation...

Research on humanoid robotics in Mechatronics and Automation (MA) Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National University of Singapore (NUS) was started at the beginning of this decade. Various research prototypes for humanoid robots have been designed and are going through evolution over these years. These humanoids have been successfully participating in various robotic soc...

We describe the Penn-Lehman Automated Trading project, a broad investigation of algorithms and strategies for automated trading in financial markets that centers around the Penn Exchange Simulator (PXS). PXS performs a stock market simulation that integrates virtual client orders with limit order data from real-world electronic exchanges. We describe our motivations and interests, the design an...

Our last years Soccer Simulation team AT Humboldt 2003 was mainly designed as a research testbed for long-term deliberation and realtime reasoning, cooperative behavior in MAS, CBR-aided decision making and scalable behavior control mechanisms. The main goal was to implement and to evaluate the double pass architecture (DPA). This was always done with regard to the transition of the Simulation ...

In 2008, UT Austin Villa entered a team in the first Nao competition of the Standard Platform League of the RoboCup competition. The team had previous experience in RoboCup in the Aibo leagues. Using this past experience, the team developed an entirely new codebase for the Nao. Development took place from December 2007 until the competition in July of 2008. This technical report describes the a...