| Overview and Award Papers |
| Overview Paper |
| Overview of RoboCup-98 / Minoru Asada ; Manuela Veloso ; Milind Tambe ; Itsuki Noda ; Hiroaki Kitano ; Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar |
| Scientific Challenge Award Papers |
| Character Design for Soccer Commentary / Binsted ; Sean Luke |
| Automatic Soccer Commentary and RoboCup / Hitoshi Malsubara ; Ian Frank ; Kutniko Tanaka-Ishii ; Hideyuki Nakashima ; Kôili Hashida |
| Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System / Dirk Voelz ; Elisabeth André ; Gerd Herzog ; Thomas Rist |
| Champion Teams |
| The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team / Peter Stone ; Patrick Riley |
| The CMUnited-98 Champion Small-Robot Team / Michael Bowling ; Sorin Achin ; Kwun Han |
| The CS Freiburg Robotic Soccer Team: Reliable Self-Localization, Multirobot Sensor Integration, and Basic Soccer Skills / Jens-Steffen Gutmann ; Wolfgang Hatzack ; Immanuel Herrmann ; Bernhard Nebel ; Frank Rittinger ; Augustinus Topor ; Thilo Weigel ; Bruno Welsch |
| Technical Papers |
| Infrastructure |
| The Survey of RoboCup '98: Who, How and Why / Igor M. Verner |
| How to make a Challenging AI Course Enjoyable Using the RoboCup Soccer Simulation System / Silvia Coradeschi ; Jacek Malec |
| A Quadruped Robot for RoboCup Legged Robot Challenge in Paris '98 / Masahiro Fujita ; Stephane Zrehen |
| Robot Soccer with LEGO Mindstorms / Henrik Hautop Lund ; Luigi Pagliarini |
| Basic Skill |
| Ball-Receiving Skill Dependent on Centering in Soccer Simulation Games / Kazuaki Maeda ; Akinori Kohkeisu ; Tomoichi Takahashi |
| The Priority/Confidence Model as a Framework for Soccer Agents / Jan Lubbers ; Rogier R. Spaans |
| A User Oriented System for Developing Behavior Based Agents / Paul Scerri ; Anders Törne |
| Teamwork and Evaluation |
| From Play Recognition to Good Plays Detection - Reviewing RoboCup 97 Teams from Logfile / Tadashi Naruse |
| Inductive Verification and Validation of the KULRoT RoboCup Team / Kurt Driessens ; Nico Jacobs ; Nathalie Cossement ; Patrick Monsieurs ; Luc De Raedt |
| Layered, Resource-Adaptive Agents in the RoboCup Simulation / Christoph G. Jung |
| A Description-Processing System for Soccer Agents / Nobuhiro Ito ; Kouichi Nakagawa ; Xiaoyong Du ; Naohiro Ishii |
| Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning in RoboCup / Stacy Marsella ; Jafar Adibi ; Yaser Al-Onaizan ; Ali Erdem ; Randall Hill ; Gal A.Kaminka ; Zhun Qiu |
| A Hybrid Agent Model, Mixing Short Term and Long Term Memory Abilities. An Application to RoboCup Competition / Fausto Torlerolo ; Chaierine Garbay |
| Learning and Evolution |
| Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning |
| Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in a Multiple Mobile Robot Environment by Co-evolution / Eiji Uchibe ; Masateru Nakamura |
| Real Robot Perception, Mechanism, and Integration |
| Integrated Reactive Soccer Agents / Wei-min Sken ; liogelio Adobbati ; Srini Lanksham ; Hadi Moradi ; BenhamSalevii ; Sheila Tejada |
| An Innovative Approach to Vision, Localization and Orientation Using Omnidirectional RadialSignature Analysis / Andrew R. Price ; Trevor Jones |
| An Application ol Vision-Based Learning in RoboCup for a Real Robot with an Omnidirectional Vision System and the Team Description of Osaka University "Trackies" / Sho'ji Suzuki ; Tatsunori Kalo ; Hiroshi Ishizuka ; Yasutake Takahashi |
| The RoboCup-NAIST: A Cheap Multisensor-Based Mobile Robot with On-Line Visual Learning Capability / Takayuki Nakarnura ; Kazunori Terada ; Atsushi Shibata ; Hideaki Takeda |
| Team Description |
| Simulation |
| Andhill-98:A RoboCup Team which Reinforces Positioning with Observation / Tomohito Andou |
| Evolving Team Darwin United / David Andre ; Astro Teller |
| UBU: Utility-Based Uncertainty Handling in Synthetic Soccer / Magnus Boman ; Helena Aberg ; Asa Ahman ; Jens Andreasen ; Mats Danielson ; Carl-Gustaf Jansson ; Johan Kummeneje ; Harko Verhagen ; Johan Walter |
| AT Humboldt in RoboCup-98 / Pascal Gugenberger ; Jan Wendler ; Kay Schröter ; Hans-Dieter Burkhard |
| Individual Tactical Play and Pass with Communication between Players -Team Descriptions of Team Miya2- / Harukazu Jgarashi ; Shougo Kosue ; Masatoshi Miyahara |
| UKSC-team: A Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach to the RoboCup'98 Simulator League / Auguslo Cesar Pinto Lourciro da Costa ; Guilherme Bittencourt |
| Description of Team Erika / Takeshi Matsumura |
| Getting Global Performance through Local Information in PaSo-Team'98 / E. Pagello ; F. Montesello ; F. Garelli ; F. Candon ; P. Chioetto ; S. Griggio |
| A Direct Approach to Robot Soccer Agents: Description for the Team MAINZ ROLLING BRAINS Simulation League of RoboCup'98 / Daniel Polani ; Stefan Weber ; Thomas Ulhmann |
| CAT Finland: Executing Primitive Tasks in Parallel / Jukka Riekki ; Jussi Pajala ; Antti Tikanmki ; Juha Rning |
| A Multi-level Constraint-Based Controller for the Dynamo98 Robot Soccer Team / Yu Zhang ; Alan K. Mackworth |
| Real Robot Small-Size League |
| The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-Lab / Andreas Birk ; Thomas Walle ; Tony Belpaeme ; Johan Parent ; Tom De Vlaminck ; Holgcr Kenn |
| CUPS Glory - Soccer Robots with Local Intelligence / Thomas Braunl |
| The Cambridge University Robot Football Team Description / A. Rowstron ; B. Bradshaw ; D. Crosby ; T. Edmonds ; S. Hodges ; A. Hopper ; S. Lloyd ; J.Wang ; S. Wray |
| UQ RoboRoos: Preliminary Results for a Robot Soccer Team / Gordon Wyeth ; Brett Browning ; Ashley Tews |
| Real Robot Middle-Size League |
| ISocRob - Team Description / Pedro Aparicio ; Rodrigo Ventura ; Pedro Lima ; Carlos Pinto-Ferreira |
| Real MagiCol 98: Team Description and Results / E. González ; H. Loaiza ; A. Surez ; C. Morenoet |
| Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description / Michael Klupsch ; Maximilian Lückenhaus ; Christoph Zierl ; Ivan Laptev ; Thorsten Bandlow ; Marc Grimme ; Ignaz Kellcrcr ; Fabian Schwarzer |
| The Ulm Sparrows: Research into Sensorimotor Integration, Agency, Learning, and Multiagenl Cooperation / Stefan Enderle ; Stefan Sablatnoeg ; Thomas Boss ; Mark Dettinger ; Hans Braxmayer ; Heiko Folkerts ; Markus Klingler ; Dominik Maschke ; Gerd Mayrr ; Markus Mueller ; Alexander Neubeck ; Marcus Ritter ; Heiner Seidl ; Robert Woerz ; Guenther Palm |
| ART Azzurra Robot Team / Daniele Nardi ; Giorgio Clemente ; Enrico Pagello |
| Design and Evaluation of the T-Team of the University or Tuebingen for R,oboCup'98 / Michael Plagge ; Boris Diebold ; Richard Guenther ; Joern Ihlenburg ; Dirk Jung ; Keyan Zahedi ; Andreas Zell |
| Team Description of the GMD RoboCup-Team / A. Siegberg ; A. Bredenfeld ; H. Guenther ; H.U. Kobialka ; B. Klaassen ; U. Licht ; K.L.Paap ; P.G. Ploeger ; II. Streich ; J. Vollmer ; J. Wilberg ; R. Worst ; T. Christaller |
| UTTORI United: Cooperative Team Play Based on Communication / Kazutaka Yokota ; Koichi Ozaki ; Nobuyuki Watanabe ; Akihiro Matsumoto ; Daisuke Koyama ; Tatsuya Ishikawa ; Kuniaki Kawabata ; Hayato Kaelsu ; Hajime Asama |
| Legged robot league |
| Quadrrupcd Robot Guided by Enhanced Vision System and Supervision Modules / Vincent Hugel ; Patrick Bonnin ; Jean Christophe Bouramoué ; Didier Solheid ; Pierre Blazevic ; Dominique Duhaut |
| The CMTrio-98 Sony Legged Robot Team / William Uther |
| BabyTigers-98: Osaka Legged Robot Team / Noriaki Milsunaga ; Chizuko Mishima |
| Author Index |
| Overview and Award Papers |
| Overview Paper |
| Overview of RoboCup-98 / Minoru Asada ; Manuela Veloso ; Milind Tambe ; Itsuki Noda ; Hiroaki Kitano ; Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar |
| Scientific Challenge Award Papers |
| Character Design for Soccer Commentary / Binsted ; Sean Luke |
| Automatic Soccer Commentary and RoboCup / Hitoshi Malsubara ; Ian Frank ; Kutniko Tanaka-Ishii ; Hideyuki Nakashima ; Kôili Hashida |
