Details regarding both requirements can be found below.
There are two purposes for requiring the logfile and the paper:
1) Teams that have solved the low-level implementation details regarding the soccer server and that have a research focus by April are likely to be able to execute this research and produce competative entries by August.
2) We may have too many entries. Depending on the number of teams that actually submit logfiles and papers, the committee may have to select a field of competitors from among the entries. Note that winning in the logfile is NOT a prerequisite for competing. We aim to include teams that can demonstrate good performance in April, and those that show promise of producing interesting research results. Should we need to select from among the teams, the decisions of the simulator committee will be final. We will make every effort to notify potential participants of our decisions before the IJCAI registration deadline.
The details regarding submission of logfiles and papers are as follows.
Note: if for some reason you are unable to run any of these teams (for instance if you don't have access to a UNIX system), you may submit a logfile of your team playing against itself. This option is strongly discouraged.
Make the logfile available on the web or by anonymous ftp and send instructions for retrieving it to the simulator committee:
pstone@cs.cmu.edu
hdb@informatik.hu-berlin.de
noda@etl.go.jp
pausc@ida.liu.se
You may create your logfile using any version of the soccer server
after version 4.0.
pstone@cs.cmu.edu
hdb@informatik.hu-berlin.de
noda@etl.go.jp
pausc@ida.liu.se
We can only accept postscript documents (to send through the mail, please gzip and uuencode).
Good luck!
The Simulator committee: