1. Simulated Car Racing Contest II:Optimizing Car Setup @ GECCO-2009Luigi Cardamone, Daniele Loiacono, Julian Togelius, and Pier LucaLanzi SCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009

2. What is the optimization competition? The goal is to submit an optimization algorithm for achallenging problem The optimization problem consists in finding the best carsetup that achieve the highest performance in a particulartrack The submitted algorithms will be compared in three differenttracks Challenges: Limited amount of time available for the optimization process Fake parameters that increase the search space No prior knowledge about the parameters and the track used for the optimization process SCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 3. The competitors Two entries have been submitted to the competition:Pietro Versari, Stefano Morini, Stefano Cagnoni -Dipartimento di Ingegneria dellInformazione, Universitdegli Studi di ParmaJorge Muoz Fuentes - Carlos III University of Madrid,Department of Computer Science One more entry has been considered:Basic Genetic Algorithm (by Luigi Cardamone et al.,Politecnico di Milano) SCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 4. Scoring process Scoring process involved three tracks (unknown to thecompetitors): Alpine (19 parameters) Michigan (19 parameters) Forza (50 parameters) For each track, 3 runs of each optimization technique havebeen performed Each run is stopped after that 10.000.000 of game ticsexpires (approximately 1 hour of computation) The champion of each run was evaluated scoring thedistance raced in the first 10.000 game tics of a race The scores for each race are based on the Formula 1 scoringsystem SCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 5. AlpineTrack Alpine9500,009000,00 8764,30 8762,338500,00 8376,18 8000,007500,007000,00V&M&CJorge LuigiAvg Dist RacedSCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 6. MichiganTrack Michigan13500,00 13000,0012666,8112500,00 12385,15 12210,7912000,00 11500,00 11000,00 10500,00V&M&C JorgeLuigiAvg Dist RacedSCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 7. Forza Track Forza12000,0011583,7011500,00 11105,02 11169,3311000,0010500,0010000,00 9500,00V&M&C JorgeLuigiAvg Dist RacedSCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009 8. Final ResultsV&M&CJorgeLuigi Alpine10,00 8,00 6,00 Michigan 8,0010,00 6,00 Forza 10,00 6,00 8,00 Total 28,00 24 20 Versari, Morini and Cagnoni are the Winnersof GECCO-2009 Optimization Competition! SCR Contest II: optimizing car setup @ GECCO-2009