RoboCup 2009 Robot Soccer World Cup XIII

There were 112 submissions from 25 countries. All papers were carefully reviewed by an international Program Committee of 96 members, who were assisted by 25 additional reviewers. Each paper was reviewed by three Program Committee members and all reviews were carefully considered and discussed by the Symposium Co-chairs, who made the final decisions. The review process was extremely selective and many good papers could not be accepted for the final program. Out of the 112 submissions, 22 papers were selected for oral presentations, whereas 17 papers were selected for poster presentations. Two of these papers were recognized for their outstanding quality. Specifically, Mohsen Malmir and Saeed Shiry received the best paper award for their paper titled Object Recognition with Statistically Independent Features: A Model Inspired by the Primate Visual Cortexand Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Peter Stone received the best student paper award for their paper titled Learning Complementary Mutliagent Behaviors: A Case Study.