In this report we want to introduce the new aspects of our soccer simulation team AT-Humboldt [1] compared with former approaches [2–4]. More than 1.5 years ago we began a complete reimplementation of our team with major innovations in software design and the agents architecture. The main goal was to implement and to evaluate the double pass architecture (DPA) [5] in a highly dynamic environmen...

This paper presents the recent development of small-sized humanoid robot, HSR (HanSaRam)-VII, which is developed to participate in HuroCup which is one of the game categories of FIRA (www.FIRA.net). As HuroCup is composed of seven kinds of competitions, humanoid robots participating in this league have to be capable of various tasks such as weight lifting, basketball, marathon, etc. HSR-VII is ...

In today’s world the business environment is experiencing the dramatic change in the field of computer networking. Global competitions have forced traditional and non-traditional organization to be more aggressively influence the technology for competitive advantage. But many organization have struggled to manage the changes in order accelerate time to market with new technology. Equipment manu...

Security competitions have become a popular way to foster security education by creating a competitive environment in which participants go beyond the effort usually required in traditional security courses. Live security competitions (also called “Capture The Flag,” or CTF competitions) are particularly well-suited to support handson experience, as they usually have both an attack and a defens...

The use of data analysis competitions for selecting the most appropriate model for a problem is a recent innovation in the field of predictive machine learning. Two of the most well-known examples of this trend was the Netflix Competition and recently the competitions hosted on the online platform Kaggle. In this paper, we will state and try to verify a set of qualitative hypotheses about predi...

the present paper first with a look to the today's architecture demonstrate that on one hand in the field of opinion in education and architecture view, there is no constant and clear standard and on the other hand what exists in the field of action, increase this disturbance and disorder. among the solution adopted in the field of action are: imitation and repetition of traditional (past)...

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...

We consider the design of forecasting competitions in which multiple forecasters make predictions about one or more independent events and compete for a single prize. We have two objectives: (1) to award the prize to the most accurate forecaster, and (2) to incentivize forecasters to report truthfully, so that forecasts are informative and forecasters need not spend any cognitive effort strateg...

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...

We initiate the study of incentive-compatible forecasting competitions in which multiple forecasters make predictions about one or more events and compete for a single prize. have two objectives: (1) to incentivize report truthfully (2) award prize most accurate forecaster. Proper scoring rules truthful reporting if all are paid according their scores. However, incentives become distorted only ...