Creation of a Soccer-Playing Program that Won its First Two Games in the Robo-Cup 1997 Competition
(A Human-Competitive Result Produced by Genetic Programming)
The Result
Genetic programming evolved a soccer-playing
program that won its first two games in the Robo Cup 1997 competition as
described in a paper entitled “Genetic programming produced competitive soccer
softbot teams for RoboCup97” (Luke 1998).
Basis for Claim of Human-Competitiveness
Referring to the eight criteria in chapter 1 of Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving (Koza, Bennett, Andre, and Keane 1999) for establishing that an automatically created result is competitive with a human-produced result, the creation of a soccer-playing program that won its first two games in the Robo Cup 1997 competition satisfies the following criterion:
(H) The
result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving human
contestants (in the form of either live human players or human-written computer
programs).
References
Koza, John R., Bennett III, Forrest H, Andre, David, and Keane, Martin A. 1999a. Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
Luke, Sean. 1998. Genetic programming produced competitive
soccer softbot teams for RoboCup97. In Koza, John R., Banzhaf, Wolfgang,
Chellapilla, Kumar, Deb, Kalyanmoy, Dorigo, Marco, Fogel, David B., Garzon, Max
H., Goldberg, David E., Iba, Hitoshi, and Riolo, Rick. (editors). Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the
Third Annual Conference, July 22–25, 1998, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wisconsin. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. Pages 214–222.
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