AI Olympics is testing your software skills, but most of all, your capacity to innovate and come up with competitive solutions to some cool problems. If you like challenges, check out what we have prepared for you!
It’s an event dedicated to the field of Artificial Intelligence. It’s about the thrill of answering interesting AI challenges. It’s about sharing of ideas between researchers, co-workers and students in the AI community. It’s about meeting people who have dedicated their work-life to creating intelligent solutions. It’s about the way these solutions can already help enhance our world today.
AI-MAS Winter Olympics has four ways to make you part of all this:
AI Olympics. Choose from 3 challenges, create a solution intelligent enough to defeat all the others and you have a go for our 3.000 Euros total prize winnings!
AI: Discuss and Discover. Find out how AI technologies are already used in everyday life and who are the people that use them.
AIdeas. Share your idea if you think it’s really good, and get some guidance from our experts. The winner receives financial support to present the research project in an international conference.
AI-MAS Village. Interact with autonomous robots, gadgets and state-of-the-art technologies or show off your own – it is the place you don’t want to miss!
Eligibility
Any person keen on Artificial Intelligence is eligible to participate in the competition as long as he/she is either:
* a high school student
* an undergraduate student
* a graduate student (Master, PhD)
Note: Teams or individuals that do not comply with the eligibility criteria might be able to submit solutions to either challenge, outside the competition. These solutions will not go through the evaluation process, but can play, as a demo, against the solutions previously agreed upon with the organizers; please, send an e-mail to contact[at]aiolympics.ro for more information on this.
Teams
Teams can have 1 to 3 members. Teams may also be mixed, e.g. a high school student, an undergrad and a graduate student, or other combinations of the three.
A team is free to participate in all 3 challenges at the same time. One contestant can be part of several teams as long as the teams do not compete in the same challenge. This means that 2 teams that have at least one member in common can’t run in the same challenge.
If your team enters the competition, and it does not comply with the eligibility criteria or with the terms specified in this section, it will be disqualified.
Awards
We offer a total of 3.000 Euros: the winning team of each challenge is awarded a prize of 1.000 Euros. If a team wins several challenges, it will be awarded a prize for each of the won challenges.
What is a valid solution?
A solution is considered valid if the submitted code that adheres to the specifications given in the SDK of each game and, that, when executed within the proper context, plays according to the rulebook.
Submitting the Solution
You will submit your solution in the form of an archive…
A challenge will only be held if at least 3 valid solutions, developed by 3 different teams, are submitted for the qualifications round.
How do I test my solution?
Once you register on our website, we provide you with a Software Development Kit. You will have to make sure that your solution is valid before submitting it, or else it will not enter the subsequent competition round. Only the last valid solution submitted before the deadline of each round will be taken into account.
For each of the challenges, there will be 2 testing rounds. The testing rounds are optional, but you are advised to participate in them, because they allow you to evaluate your solution compared to the others, and you are given an idea of your overall performance.
The names of the other teams participating in the testing rounds will not be disclosed. You will only be able to see your scores and ranking.
The testing rounds will be performed by an automatic testing system and will follow the ELO rating system, described here.
During each testing round, each team will play several games against different opponents. The number of games will be established according to the total number of teams that will have sent valid solutions for that testing round.
Important dates
Solution Submission for Testing Round - 1* December 19th, 2010
Testing Round 1 - December 20th, 2010
Solution Submission for Testing Round 2* - January 20th, 2010
Testing Round 2 - January 21st, 2010
Solution Submission for Qualifications* - February 4th, 2010
Qualification Round - February 5th, 2011
Final Solution Submission Date*- February 16th, 2011
The Finals - February 19-20, 2011
* All submissions until 24.00h (GMT+2)
For more information: http://www.aiolympics.ro/
