*** Call for Participation ***

The 3rd Reinforcement Learning competition
Planned ICML-09 workshop
http://2009.rl-competition.org/

The annual reinforcement learning competition invites researchers from
around the world to apply their latest learning methods to a suite of
exciting and diverse challenge problems. The aim of the competition is
to facilitate direct comparisons between learning methods on difficult
and realistic domains. This competition aims to stimulate the
development and verification of increasingly practical
algorithms. This year's contest includes:

* Acrobot
* Helicopter
* Mario
* Octopus Arm
* Polyathlon
* Tetris

A workshop in conjunction with the 2009 competition is expected to take
place at ICML-09. In addition to competing for prizes and scholarships
to ICML, the competition provides an opportunity to benchmark your
algorithms against others in the community. Domain and contest details
can be found here: http://2009.rl-competition.org/

Questions regarding the competition should be directed to the online
forums hosted at the competition website.


Matthew Taylor, on behalf of the organizing committee