Call For Participation

Please see the AAAI conference page for the 2008 Computer Poker Competition information.

Objective

The objective of this competition is to benefit artificial intelligence by promoting, aiding, and evaluating research in computer poker.

Requirements

E-Mail of Interest (due by 11:59 PM EST, May 1st)

Submit an e-mail to me gilpin@cs.cmu.edu expressing interest. This needs to include:

  • Team name, team members
  • University/Business Affiliation
  • The competitions in which you plan to participate

Final Bot (due 11:59 PM EST, June 15th)

Submit an e-mail to gilpin@cs.cmu.edu with a tar.gz, tar, jar, or zip file containing:

  • A startme.bat file (for Windows) or a startme.sh file (for Linux).
  • A README.txt file containing:
    • Team Name
    • University/Business Affiliation
    • Team Leader names and e-mails
    • Team Members names and e-mails
    • Location (City,Province/State,Country)
    • One/Two Paragraph Summary of Technique
    • References to relevant papers, if any

By submitting a bot, competitors agree to have their bots available in a benchmark server. Their code will not be given to else without the permission of the authors.

Schedule

This is the tenative schedule of how the competition will run.
  • May 1st, 2008-deadline for expression of interest: all external software needed should be specified before here as well.
  • June 1st-15th, 2008-the teams have access to the servers the competition is run on
  • June 15th, 2008, 11:59 PM EST - the bots must be submitted-no further changes are allowed
  • July 13th, 2008-the preliminary results are announced
  • July 15th, 2008-the results become final and are announced at AAAI.