This paper presents a new multi-agent system architecture for the RoboCup simulation league. It includes a behavior-based two-layer dynamic agent architecture, a behavior-based decision algorithm, and a role-based dynamic multi-agent cooperation model. A self-confidence function is proposed for the first time and is used to balance decisions and multi-agent cooperation. This architecture has be...

This paper describes the architecture used by the GermanTeam 2002 in the Sony Legged Robot League. It focuses on the special needs of a national team, i.e. a “team of teams” from different universities in one country that compete against each other in national contests, but that will jointly line up at the international RoboCup championship. In addition, the tools developed by the GermanTeam wi...

We compared the notational activity of 68 referees and 170 referee's assistants or linesmen officiating European matches from UEFA and the Champions League together with matches from the English Premiership and the English Championship competitions during the 2005/2006 football season using a computerised video system. We studied 328 games (14 European matches, UEFA and Champions league, 202 ma...

This study perceives professional European football as one of the most relevant event-related entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) worldwide. It also identifies a healthy sporting competition in five popular leagues (Spain, England, Germany, Italy, and France), “big five,” key pillar for functioning this ecosystem. By applying quantitative approach, competitive intensity (CI) is measured all big 21...

Predicting the game score is a well-explored duty, using mathematical/statistical models. Nonetheless, by adopting Bayesian methodology, this study aimed to estimate probabilistically Chilean Premier League teams’ position, considering them hierarchical structure. This approach enabled evaluation of main championship that provides major soccer players for national team. Thus, countable (Poisson...

There are concerns surrounding the risk of neurodegenerative diseases associated with football (soccer) heading. The aim this study was to conduct analysis on incidence and mechanism heading in “Big 5” professional European leagues (Bundesliga, Ligue 1, Premier League, La Liga Serie A) one lower tier league (English Championship) from 2016/17 2018/19. Match event data 7147 matches were obtained...

1. Introduction Pollard and Reep (1997) point out that " soccer coaches, players, fans, and the media are deeply skeptical and often suspicious, to the point of paranoia, at the suggestion that a statistician might have something useful to offer […] ". Statisticians, though, have a different opinion. Statistical interest on the aspects of the game has been steadily rising over the past decades....