CSU 670 Spring 2009
Out: February 17, 2009
Due: February 24, 2009
                                                Karl Lieberherr
						Ahmed Abdelmeged

Polishing your CSP-eating robots 

Subproject 7
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Implement a robot capable of playing
Classic SDG CSP Fast Pitch Softball.
Note that this is more general than what we planned 
originally.

Your robot must handle derivatives with any number of relations
of rank 3.
This includes 
T Ball,
Slow Pitch Softball (a subset of Fast Pitch Softball Level 1 Reduced), 
Fast Pitch Softball Level k Independent (any k),
Fast Pitch Softball Level k Reduced (any k).

Reduced means that we first simplify.

Given a derivative d, the robot should compute
the equivalent derivative simplify(d) which satisfies:
simplify(d) has the minimum number of relations 
among all equivalent derivatives.
Two derivatives d and d1 are equivalent iff
break-even(d) = break-even(d1).

For derivative minimization, use the interface:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/csu670/sp09/component-market/derivativeminimizer/
/home/lieber/.www/courses/csu670/sp09/component-market

This is our fifth competition.
We use the same submission instructions as for the previous competition.

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Software Component Market

The interfaces are posted by Dave at:
/home/lieber/.www/courses/csu670/sp09/component-market

Please follow this procedure for submitting implementations:

1. Create a directory in
   /home/lieber/.www/courses/csu670/sp09/component-market/implementations/
   with the name of your robot, e.g. IAmRobot.
2. Create a subdirectory of the form X-impl, where X is the name
   of an interface directory, e.g., derivativeminimizer.
3. Put your implementation into that directory, e.g.,
   .../implementations/IAmRobot/derivativeminimizer-impl 
   AND send a message to the class that a new implementation is ready.

It is up to you whether you want to publish the source code
of your component. Provide usage instructions for your component.

Reuse points:

For each component that gets reused, 
(1) the creation team gets 3-9 RU-points based on complexity.
(2) the reusing team gets 3 RU points (for evaluating the component
    and incorporating it into their robot).

When you reuse a component, send email to csu670-grader@ccs.neu.edu.