Xref: utzoo comp.ai:8587 comp.ai.edu:172 comp.cog-eng:1861 comp.edu:4024 comp.misc:11511 comp.robotics:693 rec.games.programmer:3080
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!masscomp!peora!tarpit!osceola.cs.ucf.edu!news
From: vanb@eola.cs.ucf.edu (David Van Brackle)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.cog-eng,comp.edu,comp.misc,comp.robotics,rec.games.programmer
Subject: AI/Simulation Competition
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.160754.1872@osceola.cs.ucf.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:07:54 GMT
Sender: news@osceola.cs.ucf.edu (News sysetm)
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Lines: 30



                * * *  Announcing:  GISMO  * * *
       (Game for Intelligent Simulated Military Opponents)

The Institute for Simulation and Training in Orlando is pleased to
announce the First Game for Intelligent Simulated Military Opponents.
In order to stimulate research in the fields of interactive distributed
simulation and behavioral modelling, IST will be sponsoring a competion.
Competitors are invited to write programs to control a small force of tanks 
in a simple scenario. Programs will communicate with a battle simulator via 
2400-baud modems on toll-free telephone numbers, and will compete directly 
with each other.

The competition will be open to any school, company, individual or
group of individuals using any kind of computing machinery. Full details
of the competition, including rules, specification of the scenario and
how to communicate with the simulator, are now available. Competitors will 
have approximately one year to develop their programs. The competition will 
be held in October and November of 1991.


                 For more information, contact:

                        David Van Brackle
              Institute for Simulation and Training
                12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300
                        Orlando, FL 32826
                         (407)  658-5500
                    Internet: vanb@cs.ucf.edu