http://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/challengeThu, 13 Jan 2011 09:00:00 ESTPalomino WebPal/CMS - www.palominosys.comenCopyright The CAIAC Precarn IS Challenge Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:00:00 ESTnewsQTnNBKdxgshttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/Datasets.htmlData sets are now available from here. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsicdHZEgFVphttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/2009scores.htmlThe scores for the teams that submitted a working solution is listed below.H - Canadian High School StudentsNo submissionU - Canadian Undergraduate StudentsQuantum Analysis (UBC): 2432.6 (Grand Prize Winner)Pigeon Trackers (U of Toronto): 2358.1Sage Nation (U of Waterloo): 2292.5Coders of the Carribean (U of Waterloo): 1862.8Mr. Cool Guys (U of Waterloo): 544.3The Cranbrook Boys1 (UBC): -118.7S - Canadian Students (includes graduate students)Hippocampus (U of Waterloo): 2194.6 (S - Category Winner)Ronen (U of Waterloo): 1874.3ABC (UBC): 1502.0 Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsegvSfdopDehttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/2009winners.htmlThe Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association / Association pour l'intelligence artificielle au Canada (CAIAC) and Precarn Incorporated today announced the winners of the first annual CAIAC-Precarn Canadian Intelligent Systems Challenge at the Intelligent Systems Collaborative Conference. The overall winning team was from the University of British Columbia. The winner in the graduate student category was a team from the University of Waterloo. In a very tight race with student teams from all across Canada, the team from UBC wrote the best software algorithms to solve a selected industrial challenge. Adam Williams and David Fagnan of the winning team from the University of British Columbia received the grand prize and a cheque of $6,000. “The competition was a wonderful experience as it was very exciting and inspiring to learn what is involved in programming for current real world problems.” said Adam Williams. “We’re thrilled that we won. The fact that there were so many talented teams kept us motivated throughout the competition”.The prize for the graduate student category was received by Yichuan Tang from the University of Waterloo.This inaugural year of the competition, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) contributed the challenge - detecting suspicious maritime activities with incomplete information. "The Intelligent Systems Challenge for the 2008-9 season has been a huge success", says Dr. Harold Zwick, Director of R&D at MDA. "Student teams across Canada have proposed a variety of very interesting solutions. We believe that the ideas generated will lead to improved solutions to challenging problems.""I wholeheartedly support the Intelligent Systems Challenge, established by PRECARN Incorporated and the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association” says Simon Peacock, Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia. “These competitions will help engage Canadian students in the exciting field of intelligent systems and deepen their understanding of the ways that new innovations in computer science can contribute to society." Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsJaKfqjiyrshttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/callProp2010.htmlThe Canadian Society for Computational Intelligence and Precarn Incorporated are soliciting proposals for challenge problems for the 2009-2010 CAIAC Precarn Intelligent Systems Challenge.Why should your organization participate in the Intelligent Systems Challenge? There are many very good reasons, including: The company will get significant media attention at very little cost. Experience from other programming and problem solving competitions around the world shows that there significant interest by the media and by the general public in this type of event. The CAIAC Precarn Intelligent Systems Challenge will be a highly publicized event with a significant cash prize. Given the general interest in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent systems, we expect substantial media coverage. The company contributing the challenge problem will be prominently mentioned in all press releases and at all events related to the competition. The company whose challenge problem is selected will have opportunities to interact with some of Canada's best and brightest students in AI and intelligent systems; representatives of the company will be invited to participate in the competition announcement at the 2009 Intelligent Systems Collaborative Conference in Kelowna, BC and in the award ceremony, to be held in conjunction with the 2010 Intelligent Systems Collaborative Conference. The company contributing the challenge problem will have access to the results achieved for its problem by the winning teams; although intellectual ownership remains with the team members and their institutions, Precarn Incorporated will facilitate IP transfer to the company if desired. By submitting a challenge problem proposal, the company will support an event that has many benefits to Canadian students, industry and society as a whole. All supporters, including submitters of challenge problem proposals, regardless of whether their submission is selected for the competition, will be acknowledged on the competition web site. What makes a good challenge problem? A good challenge problem ... will be of interest to Canadian industry or society (in particular, it should be of direct interest to the organization or company submitting it); can be attacked by using techniques fromn the fields of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence; is clearly and concisely described, so that the objective to be achieved by the participants is defined unambiguously; is easy enough to understand that even high-school students have a chance of providing a solution; provides a real challenge in the sense that finding good solutions is difficult (an example may be drawn from combinatorial optimization problems); can be solved using relatively modest hardware and software requirements. What should a proposal look like? A challenge problem proposal should provide the following information.Use the attached Challenge Problem Proposal Form as an outline for your submission.A brief outline motivating the problem and situating it in a broader context - why is the problem relevant to Canadian industry and/or society? A concise description of the challenge problem - what is the input data, what is the objective to be achieved? How are solutions evaluated? What constitutes a good solution? Ideally, the description should be accompanied by data for one or more sample instances of the problem. References to known solutions to this problem or similar problems (e.g., from the literature) - only if available or known, otherwise this can be omitted. Information about the company (can be pasted from existing materials, such as a company web page), including contact information for the submitter. Indication whether and to which extent the company would be willing to sponsor the competition by means of a cash contribution (see separate sponsorship information) - sponsorship is not a requirement for having a proposed challenge problem selected for the competition and no firm commitments are expected at the time of the competition, but an indication of willingness to also support the competition financially is requested. What are next steps?1. Express your interest in submitting a challenge as soon as possible, via sc@intelligent-systems-challenge.ca or call at 613 727 9507. Indicate if you need an academic advisor to help formulate the challenge. 2. Pose a challenge problem related to your organization or industry, by April 24,2009.3. The challenge problem selection committee will evaluate all submissions received and may contact submitters for further discussion of their proposals. The result of the selection process will be communicated by May 8, 2009. 4. Nationwide competition to be launched on IS 2009, May 25-27 in Kelowna, BC 5. Students specializing in Intelligent Systems will tackle your challenge 6. Winners will be announced on IS 2010 7. Your company will get opportunity to transfer IP and/or sponsor the event Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsyAFeqFrhNhhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/submissionInstructions.htmlThe submission instructions were sent to all registrants of the IS challenge. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsViiMjONfsFhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/testData.htmlThe URL for the test data was sent to all registrants of the IS challenge. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsasFePsErPehttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/registration closed.htmlIf some members of your team are not registered yet, please encourage them to register as soon as possible. Registration of new teams is now closed (Feb 18), however it is still possible for participants to join an existing team. Note that the registration webpage will be completely disabled just before the release of the test data on Feb 22. Each registrant will receive an email with instructions to download the test data on Feb 22. Remember that the deadline for the submission of solutions is March 1. Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewspOTTafRrfVhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/ExtraDataset.htmlA revised version of the problem description and an extra dataset are now available. The revised problem description corrects a typo in the description of the format of the estimated event summary file: the duration and quality are in columns 37-44 and 49 (instead of columns 37-41 and 45). The extra dataset consists only of sensor data, which is similar to the test dataset that will be provided on February 22nd. NB: At the time of writing, you can only evaluate solution files for the original practice dataset, however you will soon be able to evaluate solution files for the extra dataset by clicking on the corresponding dataset. Note also that the evaluation program only accepts solution files with names that end with ".ees" (instead of ".dat"). We are working on removing this limitation. Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsZImZYgboULhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/ParseAndScoreSolution.htmlThe evaluation program that will be used to score solutions is available online. Once your program is working, verify that the solution (ees file) produced by your program for the practice dataset can be parsed and scored by our evaluation program. This way, when the test dataset is released on February 22nd, it will be more likely that your solution can be parsed and scored without any problem. Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:00:00 ESTnewsuwuWVakKjkhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/ImportantDates.htmlIf you are not already aware, please find below some important dates (extracted from the contest rules and guidelines). If you haven't registered your team yet, we encourage you to do this as soon as possible since registration closes in two weeks (Feb 15). We plan to release the test data to all registered contestants on Feb 22. Contestants will then have one week to submit their solutions (March 1 deadline). Important dates2009/02/15 Registration closes 2009/02/22 Test data set released to registered contestants 2009/03/01 Submission deadline for solutions (23:59:59 PST) 2009/05/27 Announcement of winners and award ceremony at the 2009 Intelligent Systems Collaborative Conference in Kelowna, BC Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:00:00 ESTnewsYZPHsipIjKhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/facebook.htmlDirk Arnold created a facebook group for the Intelligent Systems challenge. Check it out by searching for "Canadian Intelligent Systems Challenge" in facebook. Post comments, compare scores and invite friends to check out the challenge! Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:00:00 ESTnewsMcxwqNTBvJhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/bugCorrectionSensorData.htmlSome of you noticed some discrepancies between the event details and the sensor data. There was a bug in the generation of the sensor data from the event details. This bug is now corrected. Please download a revised version of the documentation and sensor data. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:00:00 ESTnewsjmGuQwRQQphttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/problemDescriptionAndPracticeDataset.htmlThe organizing committee is glad to announce that a full description of the challenge problem with a practice dataset are available for download. Don't wait any longer to start working on the problem!The problem "Protecting Canada's Coastal Borders" for the 2009 IS Challenge is provided by Vancouver-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the company that developed Canadarm, Radarsat-2, and the satellite image processing systems used for Google Earth. Wed, 28 May 2008 09:00:00 ESTnewsGTzGIaafyqhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/2009challenge.htmlPrecarn Incorporated and CAIAC announce the 2009 Intelligent Systems Challenge in Windsor, Ontario Thu, 15 May 2008 09:00:00 ESTnewsdpkbvQBusmhttp://intelligent-systems-challenge.ca/news/oc.htmlThe CAIAC Precarn Intelligent Systems Challenge steering committee is happy to welcome the 2009 Organizing Committee to the Challenge. We know that organizing the first annual Challenge will come with its own hurdles and surprises and are very grateful for all member of the committee to take on the task of managing the contestants throughout the year.The Organizing Committee members are:Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo (chair) Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa Dirk Arnold, Dalhousie University Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University