AI Olympics

Here are the results of the AI Olympics challenges:

Crafting Quest 2
1st Place: Team Dragon, Serbia (Milos Stankovic)
2nd Place: Team MasterOfPuppets, University Ovidius of Constanta (Mihai Polceanu, Florin Alex Dinca)
3rd Place: Team Rock, University of Bucharest (Dan Moldovan)

Recycle Swarm:
1st Place: Team CSAC, University “Lucian Blaga” of Sibiu (Traian Schiau, Camil Onijan, Adrian Dobrita)
2nd Place: Team Agent001, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Gheorghe Ivanus)
3rd Place: Team deepblue, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Dan Banica, Sorin Banica)

Ticket to Ride:
1st Place: Team RedArmy, West University of Timisoara (Elvis Adomnica, Teodora Borza, Timo Bejan)
2nd Place: Team SuperSonic Travel, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Matei Tene)
3rd Place: Team MB, West University of Timisoara (Mircea Bordean, Dudu Georgescu, Stefan Juglea)

AIdeas

Here are the results of the AIdeas session:

The winning paper was “Cultural Exchange” by , University “A.I. Cuza” of Iasi (Vlad Manea, Anca Roscan, Sebastian Codrin Ditu, Andreea Madalina Lazar)

The paper with the title “Patient-specific computer modelling using 3D Visual Membrane Petri Nets, by R. Damaschin, L. Prepelita, C. Opinca, A. Prepelita (State University of Moldova) received the popularity vote from the public.

Thanks

We would like to address our special thanks to the Virtual and Augmented Reality Research Laboratory (CERVA), University Ovidius of Constanta, who helped us with wonderful 3D graphics for the AI Olympics games, and especially to:

Prof. Dorin Mircea Popovici – Coordinating Professor

Mihai Polceanu

Alexandru Dincă

Victor Rizea

We also address special thanks for the support coming from: Prof. Dumitru Popescu, Prof. Valentin Cristea, Conf. Razvan Rughinis, As. Razvan Deaconescu, M. G. Arsene, Daniel Rosner, Fanel Ghita and Ionela Matei.

We would also like to thank the volunteers that joined our quest to make the best out of this project:

Mihai Trascau

Ana Tuleiu

Cristi Gratie

ASMI (Asociatia Studentilor la Matematica si Informatica)

For helping with scenography and sets, we thank Ana Tecu, Vlad Osiac, Marius Apopei and Radu Tancău.

We would also like to thank everybody that came to AI-MAS Winter Olympics 2011 and we hope to see you next year!

You are one day away from AI-MAS Winter Olympics 2011! We have prepared lots of surprises for you. Companies and academia are brought together to show you how artificial intelligence is part of your life. Find out more about AI, meet people, exchange ideas and be sure you’ll be having fun!

Check out the AI:Discuss and Discover programme and tech-talk abstracts. Please, register for this section, if you haven’t already.

Don’t miss the main attractions of AI-MAS Village. For a preview of some of the applications, take a look here.

Here are the qualified teams for the 3 challenges of AI Olympics:

Crafting Quest 2

1. Dragon
2. Master of Puppets
3. deepblue
4. Rock
5. Owls
6. IA FTW
7. Taishan
8. SmartStuff

Ticket to Ride

1. RedArmy
2. Taishan
3. BurningBrain
4. deepblue
5. AIPowerhouse
6. VDimic
7. SupersonicTravel
8. MB

Recycle Swarm

1. deepblue
2. Agent001
3. UVT
4. csac
5. StackSmash

If you want to find out more about them and who will be the happy winners of the 1000 Euros for each of the challenges, watch the finals live on February 19 and 20, at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Politehnica University of Bucharest (see map).

See you at the event!

AI-MAS Winter Olympics Team

Check out what’s new!

This is a bugfix release, and it does not affect the interfaces used by the client. It fixes a few minor issues related to the harvest action, and another one related to the display of time in the GUI.

• Stopping a harvest action before the pile was depleted resulted in the pile being prematurely removed, generating an objectsDetected update with a null position. ObjectsDetected notifications with null positions signal objects that disappeared from the map while being in the vehicle’s visual range (ie. depleted in the case of garbage piles, and loaded/picked up in the case of garbage packets). The issue was fixed, so if an ObjectsDetected notification includes a pile with a null position, the pile will always be depleted (ie. have zero quantity).
• Related to the above, the toString() methods of GarbagePile and GarbagePacket classes in the ontology now show the quantity (number of garbage units) in the pile/packet; for garbage packets, the id of the team that owns the packet is also shown.
• The progress of the harvest action was not updated properly, which resulted that in some cases it would take longer than normal to complete.
• If the number of garbage units in a pile would not be a multiple of the harvest packet size, the last packet would have more units than were left in the pile. This was corrected.
• The current time of the simulation shown in the GUI was offset by 1000 ms. The correct time is now shown.

Best of luck!

AI-MAS Winter Olympics Team

Be part of the two-day event to discover captivating facts about the latest AI trends from the tech talks presented at AI:Discuss and Discover conference and interact with cool applications using AI technologies, at the partners’ booths, in AI-MAS Village.

AI: Discuss and Discover and AI-MAS Village will also give you the chance to get in touch with people from top companies and universities, for future collaborations, internships and graduate student opportunities. Facebook, Google, TeamNet, Vector Consulting and AquaSoft are eager to meet well prepared students and value their potential.

More details will be available shortly on www.aiolympics.ro. Be sure to have a few hours reserved for interviews, during February 19 and 20!

AI-MAS Winter Olympics is organized by AI-MAS (Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems) Research Laboratory, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, and has the support of RACAI (Romanian Academy Center for Artificial Intelligence), CERVA (Virtual and Augmented Reality Research Laboratory, University OVIDIUS of Constanta), Serious Games Institute (Coventry, UK) and 11 top universities from Romania.

AI-MAS Winter Olympics Team

If you haven’t yet registered your team to one of the AI Olympics challenges, you still have the chance to do so until February 1, 2011. Submit your solution to one of the three challenges and you will be heading for the win! In order to download the latest SDK releases, please create an account for your team and log in.

A new testing round has been scheduled for February 1, 2011. To participate in this round, you should submit your solution until January 31, 2011 24.00h (GMT+2).

The testing rounds are optional and the results are not taken into consideration for the competition. Nevertheless, it is the best way to see where you’re standing among other teams that choose to submit their solutions for these rounds.

The qualification round takes place on February 5, 2011. Submit your solution until February 4, 2011, 24.00h (GMT+2), and make your way to the finals!

Please note that you can only fill in your team’s profile (the full name, birth date and educational background for each member) by the 4th of February. Only teams that have complete profiles will be eligible for the qualification round.

Finalists of the three challenges will have the chance to get in touch with representatives of top companies, such as Facebook, Google, TeamNet, Vector Consulting or AquaSoft, in the view of internship or career opportunities.

Best of luck!

AI-MAS Winter Olympics Team

Submission deadline for the 2nd testing round has been extended to January 21, 2011, 24.00h (GMT+2), due to the fact that our server was down for several hours during the day.

The 2nd testing round is on! If you’re willing to be part of it, you’ll have the chance to match your solution against those of other teams and see where you’re standing among them!

This round is optional, but we strongly advise you to participate.

Work more on your solution for the qualification round, on February 5, and you’ll be heading for the win!

Finalists may have the chance to give an interview with people from top companies, such as Facebook, Google, TeamNet, Vector Consulting and AquaSoft, for possible internships or career opportunities.

Good luck and keep it up!
AI-MAS Winter Olympics Team

Check out what’s new!
The SDK can be downloaded from the SDK section of your account (you need to be logged into your team account, in order to download the SDK).

CraftingQuest 2

Fixed from last version:

• Unit sight did not get initialized until first move was taken with that unit. Current version fixes this and sets the unit’s sight matrix at initialization.

Added functionalities:

• The server can now (by default) be started without graphics support.
• You may enable graphic output by changing the server starting command from
  java -jar cqserver.jar to java -Dgui=true -jar cqserver.jar

We welcome papers on AI themes, including but not restricted to:

• Affective Computing
• Agents and multiagent systems
• Constraint satisfaction and search
• Computer vision
• Game playing and serious games
• Information retrieval
• Knowledge acquisition and ontologies
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Machine learning and data mining
• Natural language processing
• Neural Networks
• Planning and scheduling
• Robotics
• Swarm Intelligence

The most interesting AIdea is awarded 1000 euros, so get ready to show it to the world!
AIdeas mainly addresses graduate students and researchers, but anyone else who has a research AIdea is most welcome to present it!

Happy writing!

December 24, 2010

Get your SDK and send your solution until January 20, 2011, 24.00h (GMT+2), to enter the second testing round!
Measure your skills with those of your opponents.

Check out what’s new!
The SDKs can be downloaded from the SDK section of your account (you need to be logged into your team account, in order to download the SDK).

Ticket to Ride

Fixes from last version:

• fixed memory leak on C/C++ clients
• fixed file separator bug on Java server
• gamelog issue with Java server that caused the application to log erroneously in 4 log files instead of one

Crafting Quest 2
Fixes from last version:

• Several classes (CraftedObject, StrategicResource, UnitState) where missing an overriden hashCode() method, causing an undesired behavior of the HashMaps that had objects of such classes as keys. This issue has now been fixed.