Attending the IJCAI 2013 conference is not required for participating in the competition. Remote participation will be possible, provided that participants have tested by July 30 that their game playing agents run on our competition environment.
Participating agents can be developed in any programming language provided that it can be run in the competition environment and uses the standard communication protocol. Additional requirements need to be agreed upon with the organizers and need to be tested by July 30.
Qualification versions of the game playing agents need to be submitted to the organisers by August 5, 1pm, Beijing time. For those teams who qualify for the finals, the final version needs to be submitted by August 8, 8am Beijing time. These deadlines are final. If no new version has been submitted, we will use the last version we have received.
We will be using the Chrome version of Angry Birds for our competition.
Agents will not have access to the internet and will not be able to communicate other than with the server via the specified communication protocol.
Each person can only be affiliated with at most two participating agents unless permission has been obtained from the organizers. This restriction does not apply to academic supervisors of student teams.
The detailed rules of the competiton and the communication protocol will be available soon.
Attending the ECAI 2014 conference is not required for participating in the competition. Remote participation will be possible, provided that participants have tested in advance that their game playing agents run on our competition environment. However, all participants who attend the competition will need to register for ECAI 2014.
Participating agents can be developed in Java, C/C++ or python and we strongly recommend to use Java. Additional requirements need to be agreed upon with the organisers and need to be tested well in advance.
Qualification versions of the game playing agents need to be submitted to the organisers by August 19, 10am Prague time. For those teams who qualify for the finals, the final version needs to be submitted by August 21, 9am Prague time. These deadlines are final. If no new version has been submitted, we will use the last version we have received.
We will be using the Chrome version of Angry Birds for our competition in SD mode.
Agents will not have access to the internet and will not be able to communicate other than with the server via the specified communication protocol.
Each person can only be affiliated with at most two participating agents unless permission has been obtained from the organisers. This restriction does not apply to supervisors of student teams.
