The UT Austin Villa 2003 Champion Simulator Coach: A Machine Learning Approach

Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone, and Justin Lallinger
In RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, 2005.

Abstract: The UT Austin Villa 2003 simulated online soccer coach was a first time entry in the RoboCup Coach Competition. In developing the coach, the main research focus was placed on treating advice-giving as a machine learning problem. Competing against a field of mostly hand-coded coaches, the UT Austin Villa coach earned first place in the competition. In this paper, we present the multi-faceted learning strategy that our coach used and examine which aspects contributed most to the coach's success.

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  author="Gregory Kuhlmann and Peter Stone and Justin Lallinger",
  title="The {UT} {A}ustin {V}illa 2003 Champion Simulator Coach: A Machine Learning Approach",
  booktitle="{R}obo{C}up-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup {VIII}",
  editor="Daniele Nardi and Martin Riedmiller and Claude Sammut",
  publisher="Springer Verlag",
  address="Berlin",
  year="2005"
)